The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

no dog unturned

A photograph from 2023 of a black dog in a blue harness sniffing ferns alongside a gently purling stream on a fine summer’s day

If a dog differs from a stone, it is not because the dog is composed of a body and a soul, and the stone of a body only. It is solely because the dog is composed of parts so put together that they make a machine, which the arrangement of the parts of a stone do not. This is Descartes’ view.

—Pierre Bayle (Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections, s.v. Dicaearchus, §L, trans. Richard H. Popkin, p. 68)


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