How to make man better?

Saving man through animal, by Georges Chapouthier.

© Odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

2 min

How to make man better?

By awakening and cultivating other forms of emotional intelligence, affective at work in other animals ... Would it be possible to "save man through animals"? 

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Do we question ourselves, asking ourselves how to awaken, develop and cultivate the best of our humanity?

An essential question to which our guest, the biologist and philosopher Georges Chapouthier, who has spent his life as a researcher studying the brain (ours like that of other animals), brings up some unexpected answers: and if to become more human, to to become better, we had to find buried, in the deepest, our animal emotions? 

With 

, biologist and philosopher, emeritus research director at CNRS.

He has published numerous books on the brain and on animals.

His latest book

was published by Odile Jacob.

And veterinarian 

by phone. 

They will both participate in the

hosted by Animal University, which will be held on December 6-7, 2020.

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