Homo imago Dei. The immanence of the dogma of Creation in the scientific construction of the relationship between variation, difference and inequality in the human species. 18th and 19th centuries

Through a cultural analysis in long-term, the author tries to analyze the influence of the idea of the specificity of the human being in the construction of Western natural history. The aim is to show how this concept of human being influenced the construction of the different scientific reasoning about the relationship between variety, difference and inequality, and how that conditioned the construction of a biological identity marked by the appropriation of the value of an essential physical and moral superiority attributed to the first man. This leads to a reflection on the way in which the relationship between science and power, imposed limits on the process of Western secularization