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Bougeant (Guillaume-Hyacinthe)

A Philosophical Amusement upon the Language of Beasts. Written originally in French, by Father Bougeant, a famous Jesuit; now confined at La Fleche, on Account of this Work.

Dublin: Printed for Cor. Wynne, C. Connor, and Oli. Nelson, - 1739.,

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Auteur
Bougeant (Guillaume-Hyacinthe)
Éditeurs
Dublin: Printed for Cor. Wynne, C. Connor, and Oli. Nelson,, 1739.
Thème
Theology PHILOSOPHY IRELAND DUBLIN PRINTING

Description

First Dublin Edition, no half-title, with the final advertisement leaf, 62 [2]pp., disbound. Father Bougeant was born at Quimper in Brittany, in 1690. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1706, taught classics in the College of Caen and Nevers and lived for a number of years in Paris until his death in 1743. His ìAmusement Philosophique sur le Language des Bestes,î published in 1737, became a cause of considerable embarrassment to him, and resulted in a brief exile from Paris. The work was controversial in that it considered whether animals had a soul and a language, and if this could be viewed as a sign of reason. He approaches this subject and reduces it to an absurd one, concluding that it does not represent a threat to religion and grants souls to animals which would inhabit their bodies like a punishment.
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