
HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Happiness Factor in the Renaissance
Gemma Tista Jellis-Chircha 1549 is a text in which Jellis uses the story of Toba Plutarch. The picture then seems to be a kind of continuum with blurry edges, where at the bottom we have plants and then above plants we have maybe something like an oyster. So for an animal, their happy life would be not being rational. And even within humans we might have normal humans and philosophers at the very top,.
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