The intelligence of the living shakes up our certainties

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Plants weigh 82% of all living things on Earth.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

1 min

Plants and animals have long been considered in Western societies as raw materials to be transformed.

This paradigm, responsible for the current environmental crisis, is slowly changing.

The latest scientific research combined with the renewed interest in the conceptions of the world of the first peoples lead us to rethink our place in this ecosystem. 

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Guests:

Dominique Bourg

, philosopher, university professor, president of the Scientific Committee of the

Zoein Foundation

and

Sophie Swaton

, philosopher and economist, teacher at the University of Lausanne, president of the Zoein Foundation.

They have just published 

Primauté du vivant, an essay on the thinkable,

 at the PUF.

"Primacy of the living, essay on the thinkable", by Dominique Bourg and Sophie Swaton.

© PUF Publishing

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