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HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the Renaissance

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Difference Between Plants, Animals, and Humans

Campanella himself claims that animal is an awkward category. It's almost unusable. So animal includes that his example, a noise-turned-elephant,. Now we are supposed to bring those two creatures together. They can do such different things. Also the elephant is very important animal in their own essence. The elephant is a creature who is even capable of adoring the moon. Like worshipping the moon. Worshiping. Or elephants were thought to be doing that.

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