{"title":"Raimond Gaita","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-cao-do-filosofo","title":"The philosopher's dog","description":"A book for those who ask: what is philosophy for? In his debut book in Brazil, The Philosopher's Dog, Raimond Gaita tells stories involving animals, especially those who lived with him. In this way, he raises questions about how animals think and feel, relating them to how humans interact with one another. What does a dog think about when it lies on the rug? Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loyalty, grief, courage, or friendship to animals? Why are people so moved by some creatures and so little by others? Gaita's analyses encompass writers such as J.M. Coetzee and Hannah Arendt, as well as philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and René Descartes. By offering a new way of thinking about animals, he suggests that love provides the best model for the respect they deserve. One of the important aspects Gaita analyzes is the need for attention and love that humans require from other humans and from other animals. For him, this feeling distorts and poisons relationships, and to prevent this, people begin to seek an ideal of self-sufficiency that would be disastrous in the future. The poverty they feel in the face of other human beings is, in part, what conditions them or gives them the sense of their preciousness. The same occurs with animals: the destructiveness of need is the negative dimension of its power to foster the highest forms of relationship with them. \"[This] beautiful and delightful book haunted me for several days after I finished reading it.\" (Guardian)","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176313569532,"sku":"9788574321134","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b33f13be20d600a3cd1b4e9fc73daba7.jpg?v=1778314834"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/raimond-gaita.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}