Aristotle on teleology / Monte Ransome Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Monte Ransome.

Series:

Oxford Aristotle studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

xi, 339 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Aristotle's has been the most influential philosophy in the whole history of science. Monte Johnson examines its most controversial aspect: Aristotle's emphasis on the importance of goals and purposes to scientific understanding--his teleology. In some cases this policy has proved deeply flawed, for example in his earth-centric cosmology, or his anthropology purporting to justify slavery and male domination. But in many areas Aristotle's teleology has been successful, and remains influential, for example in adaptationist evolutionary theory, embryology, and genetics. Johnson's book shows also how Aristotle's theory has profound implications for environmental ethics and for the theory of value in general.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-310) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199285306

OCLC:

61131766

Publisher Number:

9780199285303