‎CABANIS (P.J.G.)‎
‎Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Crapart, 1802, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en cartonnage bradel, étiquettes de maroquin rouge (reliures de l'époque), (habiles restaurations aux dos), T.1 : 44pp., 484pp., T.2 : (2), 624pp.‎

Reference : 998

‎----- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "CABANIS' fundamental philosophical work, Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, is presented as "simple physiological researches". It is composed of twelve Mémoires... In this work Cabanis sets forth a psychology and an ethical system based on the necessary effects of an animal's organization upon its relationships with its environment... Sensation, he contended, cannot be studied in isolation from organic needs and from sensibility (in the physiological sense of the term) in its relations to motor irritability. As a physician, Cabanis considered, in the seventh memoir of the Rapports, the influence of illnesses on the formation of ideas and values. The text is a summary of his physiological and medical conceptions... It helps us to understand the importance he attributed, from a moral and social point of view, to perfecting the art of medicine...". (DSB III) ---- Zilboorg pp. 283/284 - Postel & Quetel**998/H4‎