ABSTRACT
Anthropocentrically, Alfred Russel Wallace cannot help feeling shocked in front of such a waste of beauty, thus expressing an echo of the humanistic principle, very popular in the seventeenth century, for which the world is a huge theatre built for mankind. However, in the exhibition of its own form and in its specific rules, therioanthropy finds its functional principle, which always also takes visibility into account. Proclaiming our Promethean ancestry and stigmatizing Epimetheanism as the dimension of need, we inevitably ground the magnificent and progressive fate of the human race in the dimensional disjunction that ultimately divides the human being from the nonhuman animal. The nonhuman animal is an individual – that specific dog, cat, or gorilla – while the category words "cat," "dog" and "gorilla" are not arbitrary inventions, since the "individual being" is a consequence of its "being species-specific".
