The singularity of about Onfray here rests on the dynamics of the bestiary. The author expatiates case on philosophical representative number of animals highlighted by ancient thinkers such as plaice, the masturbator fish, monogamous elephant, Epicurean pig or gregarious bee and draws the substance of his argument or, conversely, its against-argument for an entire discursive development oriented celebration of a solar erotic. Taking turns, like a portrait, ethical and aesthetic content of each animal in the aforesaid context of its close association with such a system of thought, the author simultaneously develops an analysis of their faults and their qualities entrusts them prefer the figure of the single hedgehog; an opportunity for him to make his commitment to freedom of body and mind: "Now the authors of fables, animal lovers to express types, characters, temperaments, should retain the hedgehog expressing closer Precautionary virtues, forethought and hedonistic calculation [...] For its part, the hedgehog refuses mimicry as much with the neighborhood that violence predator because he prefers a truly hedonistic wisdom avoid displeasure, getting into the position of not having to suffer the inconvenience, settling in the ontological retirement. Neither disappear or attack, but to structure a fortress from a fold in which it preserves its identity. "
In addition, Michel Onfray takes for an ethics of pleasure which is based on egalitarianism and consent as suggested in Ovid The Art of Love and Epicurus in his contract engaging the intersubjective relationship on the path of respect for the and other erotic hospitality. The author claims indeed the legacy of these two philosophers, noting their determination to promote gender equality and the practice of a light Eros underpinned by the values of feminism, "which Libertinism I seek forms augurales Ovid also an essential formula egalitarianism: antidote to the Judeo-Christian misogyny, it offers free of its egalitarian feminism slag [...] Against the impossible kind of Christian altruism - forcing an unequal relationship where I am less than the other - the defender of the contract hedonistic and pagan wants an egalitarian trade where hire as much as me, no less, no more. "Citing the poetess Sappho, Onfray adds:" Sappho expresses the evidence of entropy and the inevitability of death. This tragic wisdom, it induces a theory of the present, of life understood as a work of art, everyday for transfigure reality on the principle of respective jubilations. "
Finally, evidencing its intention of pragmatism and vitalism, the author considers that all philosophy is above all a practical application of principles. Philosophy must be the subject of a concrete life experience serving autobiographical project and self-realization: "I can not imagine philosophy, he says, without the philosophical life, and philosophical life without romance accompanying autobiographical, makes it possible and testifies to the authenticity of the project. "
