Aristotle and the Animals

Claudia Zatta (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA) is the author of Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek Philosophers (2019, second edition) and numerous articles on different aspects of the classics. She currently teaches at the American College of Greece in Athens.

• INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. Aristotle, Animal Boundaries, and the Logos of Nature; CHAPTER 2. From Reason to Life: Aristotle on Soul Division; CHAPTER 3. Animals and Nature: At the Core of Aristotle’s Zoocentrism; CHAPTER 4. The Sentient Animal; CHAPTER 5. Animal Pleasure: From Sensation to Imagination and Beyond; CHAPTER 6. The Lives of Animals; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

"The breadth of textual evidence that Z. summons to make her case is dazzling, as is her reconstruction of the conceptual debate to which Aristotle was responding in his effort to locate the study of animal life within a larger philosophical project. Z.’s book is a significant contribution to ongoing conversations about the scale of Aristotle’s teleology presented in work by J. Gelber and D. Henry, about whether zōē is a core-dependent homonym, as opened by C. Shields and complicated fruitfully in recent work by C. Coates, and about the kind and extent of Aristotle’s empiricism as explored by M. Gasser-Wingate. Z.’s volume should be considered necessary reading for scholars tracking and participating in these conversations." - The Classical Review"Zatta skillfully lays the groundwork for further engagement with Aristotle and offers a foundation for building on Aristotle’s egalitarian philosophy of science in light of modern science learnings. This is a must-read for those wanting to better comprehend Aristotle and his zoocentric understanding of animals and of the logos that permeates life itself." - Rhea Classical Reviews