Article ID: CBB729063793

Descartes e il 'paradosso' degli animali-macchina (2011)

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Descartes never offered a systematic explanation of the famous animal-machine doctrine, nor did he ever formulate it in the rigid terms attributed to him during the controversy that ensued after his death. In his philosophy, the thesis of animals as automata, which Bayle would later describe as «paradoxical», appears as a corollary of the metaphysics of the soul and the physics of matter. It also features as a polemical argument against a certain kind of materialistic anthropology of his day. In any case, the automata model itself does not allow for a science of life according to the order of reasons, but rather its function is to lay emphasis on the role of human activity in the attempt of achieving full control over bodies.

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Authors & Contributors
Gensini, Stefano
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Allocca, Nunzio
Guidi, Simone
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine
Walmsley, Jonathan
Concepts
Philosophy
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Natural philosophy
Animals
Cartesianism
Zoology
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
France
Italy
England
Netherlands
Great Britain
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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