Published: 2020-12-29

How to Philosophize from the Horseback? The Case of Michel de Montaigne

Iwona Krupecka Logo ORCID

Abstract

In this text I am collecting and interpreting Michel de Montaigne’s reflections on the horses and horse-riding. I argue that there are two basic problems in which this theme was used by Montaigne: the fragility and unexpectedness of human life and body-mind relation. In both fields Montaigne proposed a re-evaluation in relation to the classical culture. In the first one, by interpreting Plato’s “practice of death” as an art of exposing oneself to an unexpected, and in the second, by linking mind activity with the bodily processes.

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Krupecka, I. (2020). How to Philosophize from the Horseback? The Case of Michel de Montaigne. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (6), 63–76. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2020.06.05

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No. 6 (2020)
Published: 2020-12-30


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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