Antoniana Margarita

In Antoniana Margarita opus nempe Physicis, Medicis, ac Theologis Gómez Pereira enunciates new philosophical theories, precursors of those that Descartes would Later spread in his works. Perhaps the best-known theory of those collected in this work is that of the automatism of beasts, the basis of modern physiology, which defends that animals have neither a “rational” nor a “sensitive” soul.