... seems to have written the Ethics in order to understand the nature of man. He tries to find a key difference between Humans and animals in this book also. He states that most features of humans are shared with animals, for example eyes and lungs. He answers his own question by stating that Humans are separated from other things due to the fact ... , the list goes on. In order to illustrate this, Aristotle ordered various desires on a hierarchical basis in a triangle; starting with the lowest order desires at the bottom, and working towards a supposed end-in-itself, such as honour. An exa...

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... the specifically human virtues of thought and character. (2) The second premiss seems to be true by definition. (3) So does the third. (4) It is not immediately obvious how the conclusion is supposed to follow. An assumption which would license the inference without making any of the premisses redundant, and which appears to fit Aristotle's biologism, is the following: A community of a biological species ... Aristotle's understanding of nature; it occurs in several places in his writings, including Physics II.8. (2) Aristotle distinguishes the capacity of human beings to use language fr...

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