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  • 3 - The unity and purpose of On the Parts of Animals 1

  • Edited by James G. Lennox, University of Pittsburgh, Robert Bolton, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
    Published online:
    06 December 2010
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010, pp 56-77

  • Summary

    This chapter talks about the unity and structure of Aristotle's investigation of animals, and its place in his wider investigation of nature. The investigation is framed not as exploring methods for an inquiry into animals, but for an inquiry into nature. On the Parts of Animals I is regularly characterized as lacking any overall sense of unity and purpose. These characterizations are sometimes supported by statements about radical differences in style from one section to the next and by conjectures about parts being written for different purposes or at different periods of Aristotle's philosophical career. He begins simply by stipulating that it is correct that those animals with parts that differ only in degree or by more and less should be designated as kinds, while those with features that are analogous have been "kept apart".