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La discontinuidad entre lo humano y lo animal en la Historia natural de Buffon / The discontinuity between humans and animals in Buffon's Natural history
Caponi, Gustavo.
  • Caponi, Gustavo; CNPq. BR
Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos ; 24(1): 59-74, jan.-mar. 2017.
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: biblio-840692
RESUMEN
Resumen Según Buffon, la diferencia entre las capacidades cognitivas del hombre y las de los demás animales no podía ser explicada por causas naturales. La constatación de esas diferencias obligaba a aceptar que el Creador había dotado al hombre de un alma inmaterial que no tenía parangón en los animales. Aquí se pretende mostrar que esa claudicación del naturalismo buffoniano no responde a un presupuesto teológico, sino a la imposibilidad de compatibilizar esa supuesta heterogeneidad existente entre las facultades cognitivas animales y humanas con la explicación materialista del origen de las especies que Buffon fue delineando a lo largo de sus escritos. Si se piensa al hombre como algo excepcional, su origen también tendrá que ser entendido como algo milagroso.
ABSTRACT
Abstract According to Buffon, the difference between man’s cognitive abilities and those of other animals could not be attributed to natural causes. Noting these differences necessarily meant accepting that the Creator had endowed man with an immaterial soul that was unparalleled among animals. This article seeks to show that Buffon’s abandonment of naturalism was not the result of a theological premise but of the impossibility of reconciling the presumed heterogeneity between animal and human cognitive faculties with the materialist explanation of the origin of species that Buffon outlined in the course of his writings. If man is assumed to be an exceptional being, the origin of the human race must also be seen as miraculous.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Humans / Cognition / Animals Limits: Animals / Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2017 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: CNPq/BR

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Humans / Cognition / Animals Limits: Animals / Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2017 Type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Institution/Affiliation country: CNPq/BR