[PhilosophyEvents] Brennan McDavid, "Aristotle's Zoological Citizens"

[Dan Hicks]

Hello philosophers and friends of philosophy,

Apologies that this announcement is coming out so close to the event! We’ve been having some logistical challenges recently.

Aristotle’s Zoological Citizens
Brennan McDavid (Chapman University)
Friday, February 20, 3:30-5pm
COB 265

Aristotle says, in History of Animals, that human beings are political animals. He also says that bees, wasps, ants, and cranes are political animals. What matters for inclusion is that the members of the species participate in the realization of a “shared function.” McDavid will consider what Aristotle thinks it means for a species to have a shared function, and she will argue that it is a matter of coordinating for economic purposes. That is, the "shared function” that marks a "political animal" is a resource-acquisition and -allocation function. Human beings are "political" as a matter of their economic coordination more than as a matter of their socio-ethical coordination.

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Dan Hicks
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Merced

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