Traite des animaux. Ou après avoir fait des observations critiques sur le sentiment de Descartes et sur celui de M. Buffon, on entreprend d'expliquer leurs principales facultés. On joint à cet ouvrage un extrait raisonné du Traité des Sensations. Amsterdam u. Paris, De Bure u. Jombert 1755. 12°. VII, 232 S. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Rverg. u. Rsch. (Marmorierung leicht brüchig, hint. Deckel mit Schabspur, tls. berieben u. bestoßen).

Cioranescu 20315. DSB. III, 382. Corpus Condillac 01, page 182. Erste Ausgabe. - "The Traité des Animaux occupies a central position in the development of Condillac's philosophy, which, based on Locke's sensationalism gradually took an empiristic direction. Divided into two sections, Condillac refutes the mechanistic view of animals, i.e. of animals as automata or purely material machines, previously espoused by Descartes and Buffon, making it one of the most important books of the 'souls of beasts' debate in the 18th century, and an important sequel to his Traité des Sensations of 1754... In this work he criticizes Buffon's animal psychology and his neglect of the role of language in the differentiation of man from the animals. 'His theory of language as the syntax of experience united philosophical empiricism with the account of behaviour (later called utilitarian) that explained it by the preference for pleasure over pain" (DSB). - Very rare first edition. - Bibl.-St. u. Nr. a. Vortit. N.a.Vors.

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