1680 Descartes Philosophy Soul of Animals Animal Machine Behavior Ethics Dilly

1680 Descartes Philosophy Soul of Animals Animal Machine Behavior Ethics Dilly

Antoine Dilly was a 17^th-century French author known solely for his book ‘On the Soul of Animals’. Dilly, a Jesuit priest, wrote on the theories of the animal machine, originally contrived by Rene Descartes. Descartes hypothesized that animal behaviors were compared to man-made machines in that animals were a collection of parts unable to think and make decisions on their own – unable to feel or have emotion.

Dilly expounds on Descartes’ theories in this book – a cornerstone in Age of Enlightenment philosophy.

Item number: #18426

Price: $550

DILLY, Antoine

De l’ame des bêtes, ou apres avoir demontré la spiritualité de l’ame de l’homme, l’on explique par la seule machine, les actions les plus surprenantes des animaux

Lyon : Anisson & Posuel, 1680.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [20], 359, [1]
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6in X 3.25in (15cm x 8.5cm)

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