Aristotle's Biology
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Aristotle's Legacy
What I find most fascinating is the sheer breadth of everything he did. This is a man who's done serious logic, serious metaphysics and all of that under one umbrella. Just to remind ourselves of his famous sort of pro-treptic to biology where he says that you can find knowledge and get great pleasure from knowledge even from the smallest, ugliest animal. That's a great piece of legacy that everything in nature is worth studying. Well, thank you very much.
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