Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols)
Author | : José Manuel García-Valverde |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004395046 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004395040 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Download or read book Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (2 vols) written by José Manuel García-Valverde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a century before Descartes, Gómez Pereira published the Antoniana Margarita with the purpose of demonstrating the thesis of animal automatism, among many other things. The author included in his book several proofs of animal insensitivity and an original model aimed at explaining animal behaviour in the grounds of a purely mechanical system. In this sense, Pereira's work represents a critical appraisal of the traditional scholastic theory of the animal mind, as well as one of the first efforts to develop this question in the field of empirical observation and physio¬logical knowledge. It is precisely for this reason that Gómez Pereira must be recognized as one of the most valuable thinkers of the Spanish Renaissance. The editors, García Valverde and Maxwell-Stuart, offer the first critical edition of the Latin text, a careful translation and an extensive study that contextualizes its content in the philosophy of the sixteenth century.