BioConcepts

animal rationabileanimal rationabile (lat.)

• Man as an animal possessing the faculty of reason.
  category man

  c. 400

  Daemon est animal rationabile

  Chalcidius, Commentarius in Timaeum (Plato Latinus, vol. IV, ed. J.H. Waszink, London 1962): 175 (nr. 135).

  c. 400

  omnem hominem esse animal rationabile

  Themistios (4th century). Paraphrasis in Aristotelis Posteriora (Venice 1542): 25 (Liber I, Caput XL).

  c. 600

  animale rationabile

  Cassiodor, F.M.A. (6. Jh.). Opera omnia, vol. 2 (Rouen 1679): 579.

  1527

  Cum animal rationabile mortale de sensibilibus etia̅ hominibus dicatur

  Alexandri Aphrodisiei Commentaria in duodecim Aristotelis libros de prima philosophia (ed. J.G. de Sepulvéda, 1527): lib. I, 39.

  1531/36

  homo est animal rationabile

  Vives, J.L. (1531/36). De disciplinis libri xx in tres tomos: 564: cf. Alexander of Aphrodisias (3rd century). Commentaria in duodecim Aristotelis libros de prima philosophia, interprete Ioanne Genesio Sepulueda Cordubensi, ad Clementem VII. Pont. Max. (Rome 1527?): I, 39.

  1702

  if no signs of Rationality, no Acts of Reason seem to be exerted, as in Embryo’s it’s demonstratively plain, and in Infants, all their Operations at first are but meer Mechanism, what Grounds has any one to define such a Creature Animal Rationale. He may be indeed term’d Animal Rationabile, because by the Act of Generation, such a Body, or Compositum seems to be produce’d, which in process of time will become Rational, and exert all or most Acts of Reason

  Coward, W. (1702). Second Thoughts Concerning Human Soul: 177 (2nd ed. 1704: 153).

  1798

  [Vom Menschen gilt,] daß er einen Charakter hat, den er sich selbst schafft, indem er vermögend ist, sich nach seinen von ihm selbst genommenen Zwecken zu perfectioniren; wodurch er als mit Vernunftfähigkeit begabtes Thier (animal rationabile) aus sich selbst ein vernünftiges Thier (animal rationale) machen kann

  Kant, I. (1798). Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht (AA, vol. 7, 117-333): 321.