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Animism

Thinking is not only a natural experience for the human being. It's also a cultural experience of nature and of the world. So it neeeds some categories to distinguish the Natural and the Cultural areas, but these categories are not the same from a particular culture to another. Animism has been regularly misregarded in the western philosophy because the animist thinkers and cultures don't share the same frontiers between the Natural and the Cultural spheres. Looking back to Spinoza or Leibniz, we can better understand what the african and latin american people think about the difference between humans and non-humans. I try, through the work of Descola on those matters, to argue for the philosophical rehabilitation of humanism in our times. A new philosophical ecology is then possible.

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