L’Animal vertueux dans la philosophie antique a l’epoque imperiale

by Jean-Francois Lhermitte, preface by Florence Burgat

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Extent: 545 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Kainon - Anthropologie de la pensee ancienne

Series volume number: 2

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2015)

ISBN: 9782812434709

Price: $55.00

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Do animals have moral virtue? During the Roman Empire, this hypothesis was rejected by the Stoics but defended by a composite group who believed in animal intelligence. This essay reconstructs the philosophical background to this classical debate and suggests avenues for modern reflection.


Do animals have moral virtue? During the Roman Empire, this hypothesis was rejected by the Stoics but defended by a composite group who believed in animal intelligence. This essay reconstructs the philosophical background to this classical debate and suggests avenues for modern reflection.

  • By (author) Jean-Francois Lhermitte
  • Preface by Florence Burgat

Review - French Les animaux ont-ils la vertu morale ? Sont-ils capables de conduites ? Ont-ils une certaine conscience du bien ? Pratiquent-ils la justice ? Constituant un angle particulier du debat sur l'intelligence animale, ces questions connaissent leur apogee a l'epoque imperiale (Ier-IIIe siecle apr. J.-C.). Rejetee par les stoiciens sur la base de la zoopsychologie aristotelicienne, l'hypothese de l'animal vertueux est defendue par un groupe de penseurs venus d'horizons philosophiques divers : les partisans de l'intelligence animale. Cet essai reconstitue l'arriere-plan philosophique du debat antique en faisant intervenir ses notions essentielles. Mais il ouvre aussi des pistes de reflexion sur la problematique actuelle de notre rapport a l'animal.