Fray Antonio de Fuentelapeña y la racionalidad de los animales / Antonio de Fuentelapeña and the Rationality of Beasts

Abstract

Capuchin monk Antonio de Fuentelapeña wrote in 1676 El ente dilucidado, work of scholastic philosophy in which his author tried to probe the existence of spirits. Subsequents critics judged the book like an extravagance and insanity, without reparing in his scholastics arguments, which analized a lot of very important philosophical topics, like animal rationality, very famous today because of the study of comparative animal behaviour, Ethology.