
HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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On Epsonence From Consuming Animals
Bruno: It's just the bodily construction that defines whether a creature is a human or a man. So if we imagine the head gets bigger, the limbs germinate from the body and the creature gets hands and the tongue, interestingly, then he says what we would have at the end is nothing different than a man. And I guess that this text was known in the Renaissance. Was they interested in this text? Did they use his arguments to argue for vegetarianism?
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