LES TABLEAUX QUI PARLENT N° 68 - Jean-Léon Gérôme et son Diogène antispéciste

Diogenes loved no one but animals and especially dogs which he considered his equals. That's a fact. He did not suspect in this that he had a considerable head start (2500 years roughly) on human thought since this type of doctrine is precisely that which was expressed from 1970 in a current philosophy called the 'anti-speciesism. Current introduced by the English psychologist Richard.D. Ryder who published in 1971 the founding work of animalist thought "Animals, men and morals". Antispecist criticism, based on the same dialectical models as racism or sexism, corresponds more broadly to that of “post-humanism”
The latter has known a certain development with the social sciences which draw their source in the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau and of which Claude Lévi-Strauss is the most illustrious modern representative.
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