In the canon
An Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1580
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 180
He plays with his cat and stops mid-game to wonder whether she is not passing the time with him rather than he with her. The question arrives almost as an aside, inside a defence of a Spanish theologian's proof of God, and it opens onto the longest and strangest chapter of the Essais: a patient dismantling of every reason we have for thinking ourselves the measure of anything.
When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
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