
On the Gait of Animals
Author: Aristotle
Narrator: George Easton
Unabridged: 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Interactive Media
Published: 04/11/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature

Author: Aristotle
Narrator: George Easton
Unabridged: 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Interactive Media
Published: 04/11/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.
There's maybe two points of speculative value, but ultimately this piece makes me get Hegel's sarcastic remark concerning varieties of parrots.......more
A reasoning through the motion of animals, joints and the unmoved mover.......more
Very short treatise, Aristotle mixes philosophical issues with physics, mainly on the movement, drawing parallels between animals movement and the movement of the Earth, needing to have an unmoved part in order to make movement possible, like a human on a boat on a river, it can't move itself, it mu......more
Another classic by aristotle. This is also a quick read, more on the continuation of the previous book about animals' movement. This is more how they are walking.......more