Article ID: CBB435419422

"E io in Napoli vidi un cane polacco…": ancora sui linguaggi animali, da Gesner a Campanella (2017)

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Beginning with Campanella's "Del senso delle cose e della magia," this paper offers a summary view of the issue of animal language from ca. 1550 to 1637, when Descartes' "Discours de la méthode" was published. It summarizes three philosophical orientations: the concept of vis aestimativa developed by Thomas Aquinas and followers (animal mind and communication is a matter of instinct); the naturalistic position based on Aristotle's biological works and on Plutarch and Porphyrius (animals display intelligence and communication); Montaigne's radical approach (animal and human language are a kind of continuum). Campanella took sides with the naturalistic party, admitting that animals share discourse capacities, although on a limited scale. His position is compared to the traditional stance taken by Angelo Rocca (1591) and to the experimental approach of Fabrici of Acquapendente (1603).

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Authors & Contributors
Gensini, Stefano
De Lucca, Jean-Paul
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Valerio Cordiner
Anna Bettoni
Labellarte, Alberto
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Animals
Zoology
Medicine
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Medieval
20th century
Places
Europe
Italy
France
Toulouse (France)
Spain
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