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Darrera modificació: 2020-03-05
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Ortúzar Escudero, María José, "The five senses and the human/animal divide: some philosophical thoughts on anatomy from three encyclopaedias of the 13th century", Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter, 43 (2019), 4-16.
- Resum
- Interest in the study of nature in the 13th century implied also an interest in the study of animals, which served as a kind of litmus test for defining what was exclusively human. According to the encyclopaedists, human beings (homo) differ from all other animals not simply in possessing a rational soul. They also differ with regard to their sensitive faculties and organs, which were considered as well in demarcating the human/ animal divide. For this reason, some encyclopaedists wrote extensively on the senses. This is the focus of the present paper, which aims to explore this human/animal divide concerning the senses in the encyclopaedias of Thomas of Cantimpré, Bartholomew the Englishman and Vincent of Beauvais.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Animals
Història natural - Humans
Enciclopedisme
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/42134819/The_Five_Senses_a ...
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