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Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.
In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin attempts to demonstrate that Aristotle, by proposing an original version of natural perfection, opposes the whole of the Greek tradition. Nature is perfect, not only in its harmony of a complete and well-organized whole, but also because it brings together functionally perfect individuals.
Contents
Introduction
1. Is There an Aristotelian Biology?
Aristotle and Nineteenth-Century Biology
Aristotle and Cuvier
Some Remarks on Aristotle's Biological Corpus
The Relationships between the History of Animals and the Parts of Animals
An Impossible Chronology
2. The New Horizon of Teleology
The Historical Background
Aristotle's Solution and Its Consequences for His Teleology
"Many Things Happen because It Is Necessary"
Hypothetical Necessity
The Two Natures
Nature's Excellence
3. A Philosophy of Life?
The Nutritive Soul
Sexual Generation and the Female Material
Spontaneous Generation
A General Theory of Homoiomeries?
4. Diversity
What the Word "Animal" Names
Continuity and Diversity, Perfection and Harmony
The Revenge of the Special on the General
5. Animal Nature and Human Nature
Animal Pleasure, Human Pleasure
Sheep and Men
Conclusion
Bibliography
Editions of Aristotle
Works and Articles
Index
References to Aristotle's Works
