Hobbes and Descartes on anthropology : is there a debt of Hobbesian anthropology to L’Homme?

Arnaud Milanese (1)

1 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique

Hobbes didn’t know L’Homme of Descartes when he outlined his materialism, and controversies that opposed them (on optics and Meditationes) did not directly relate to physiology. However, this was probably the area where they were the closest. That’s why we here propose to trace the scheme of the Hobbesian physiology and its sources to estimate to what extent they are related or not to Descartes, or whether (which we support here) they seek common sources.

Mots clés: anthropology; Descartes; history of ideas; Hobbes; Treatise on Man

Domaines: Philosophie

Arnaud Milanese. Hobbes and Descartes on anthropology : is there a debt of Hobbesian anthropology to L’Homme?. Antoine-Mahut, Delphine; Gaukroger, Stephen. Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its reception, 43, Springer, pp.247-260, 2016, Studies in history and philosophy of science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-46989-8_15⟩. ⟨halshs-01491636⟩