Paleolithics – Enlightenment: Cave Paintings, Aristotle, Descartes and Bentham
In reading these short selections of Aristotle and Descartes, I was struck by their lack of scientific, cited evidence in forming theory persuasive enough to still inform our current conceptions of animals vs. humans and the hierarchies which maintain these relationships of power. Now, I’m not saying that the philosopher-scientist’s methods weren’t rigorous and their …