Pierre Cabanis – entre la science du vivant et la science de l’homme

• Authors: Mirosław Loba

Title variants

EN

Pierre Cabanis – between life science and human science

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

FR

The main goal of the study is to show the novelty of Cabanis’s project. As a scientist, doctor and philosopher, the author of Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme attempts to find a new science called anthropology, based mostly on physiology. There is also a discussion of how sensations are transformed (“translated”) into signs and ideas. In his dream of progress of human society, Cabanis has to navigate between the organic conception of the human being and vitalism, which can be seen as a critical approach to any scientific reductionism.

EN

The main goal of the study is to show the novelty of Cabanis’s project. As a scientist, doctor and philosopher, the author of Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme attempts to find a new science called anthropology, based mostly on physiology. There is also a discussion of how sensations are transformed (“translated”) into signs and ideas. In his dream of progress of human society, Cabanis has to navigate between the organic conception of the human being and vitalism, which can be seen as a critical approach to any scientific reductionism.

Keywords

FR

Cabanis; life; sensibility; physiology; human science; anthropology; critical vitalism; Enlightenment; Cabanis; life; sensibility; physiology; human science; anthropology; critical vitalism; Enlightenment

EN

Cabanis; life; sensibility; physiology; human science; anthropology; critical vitalism; Enlightenment

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 35-43

Dates

published

2018-05-16

Contributors

author

Mirosław Loba

• Instytut Filologii Romańskiej Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2017.444.003