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Article: Aristotle, the Scale of Nature, and modern attitudes to animals.(In the Company of Animals)
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- September 22, 1995
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George Gaylord Simpson, one of the great biologists of this century, began his book on The Principles of Taxonomy (1961) with the statement that, "Any discussion should start with a clear understanding as to what is to be discussed." What will be discussed here is how the animal kingdom has been classified in the European-speaking world since the time of Aristotle, and how these classifications have affected our attitudes to animals today. I will start with the dominating role that Aristotle played in European civilization for an incredible length of time. Then I will go on to discuss how this dominance began to crack in the eighteenth century, and how it was finally broken ...
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