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- Title: Organismal Natures (Report)
- Author : APIERON
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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As other contributions to this volume show, biological substances are at the heart of Aristotle's ontology. Within this ontology the natures of organisms play the central explanatory role (cf. Physics II and, esp., Parts of Animals). In several places throughout the corpus Aristotle draws our attention to the fact organismal natures are complex things. The nature of a living thing is divided into its material nature and its formal nature. The formal nature is identified with the substantial being (ousia) of a thing, which Aristotle divides into nature understood as mover and nature understood as end. This complex structure (as well as its explanatory import) is set out explicitly in a key passage from Parts of Animals I 1: In this paper I want to explore the concept of organismal natures as it is deployed in Aristotle's biological writings, in particular the role nature plays in the account of animal generation. For it is here that nature's teleological aspect is most on display.
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