Allan Gotthelf Teleology, First Principles, And Scientific Method In Aristotle's Biology Oxford University Pre | Allan Gothelf
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Publication Date: 2000
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For Aristotle, life is not an inexplicable, supernatural mystery,
but a fact of nature. And consciousness is a natural attribute of
certain living entities, their natural power, their specific mode
of action—not an unaccountable element in a mechanistic
universe, to be explained away somehow in terms of inanimate
matter, nor a mystic miracle incompatible with physical reality,
to be attributed to some occult source in another dimension.
For Aristotle, ‘living’ and ‘knowing’ are facts of reality; man's
mind is neither unnatural nor supernatural, but natural—and
this is the root of Aristotle's greatness, of the immeasurable
distance that separates him from other thinkers.
Life—and its highest form, man's life—is the central fact in
Aristotle's view of reality. The best way to describe it is to say
that Aristotle's philosophy is ‘biocentric’.
This is the source of Aristotle's intense concern with the
study of living entities, the source of the enormously ‘pro‐life’
attitude that dominates his thinking.
Ayn Rand, ‘Review of Randall’s Aristotle’
