[Lilliputian scholars discuss philosophy] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Lilliputian scholars discuss philosophy]
Subject: philosophy; philosophers in literature; fictional works; Lilliput (Imaginary place); imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Here scholars on Lilliput debate philosophy. Gulliver says that they do not have the same approach to philosophy as Europeans. He says that Lilliputians do not use Aristotelian categories, but is instead based on infallible principles, and imagining oneself as a member of another class. Thus, here we see two well-dressed men acting as servants to the third. This image comes in the appendix to Gulliver’s travels to Lilliput. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:20974
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 1
Image: mta_20974_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: philosophy; philosophers in literature; fictional works; Lilliput (Imaginary place); imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures