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CATEGORIZING DIFFERENCE:
CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY
by
Thomas McCulloch Cirillo
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CLASSICS)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Thomas McCulloch Cirillo
Object Description
| Title | Categorizing difference: classification, biology, and politics in Aristotelian philosophy |
| Author | Cirillo, Thomas McCulloch |
| Author email | cirillo@usc.edu;cirillo@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Classics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-03-06 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-01 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-01 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-01 |
| Date published | 2012-05-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Farenga, Vincent |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Habinek, Thomas Richter, Daniel Collins, James Gross, Ariela |
| Abstract | This dissertation studies the intersection of Aristotelian taxonomic categorization, natural history, and political science. It focuses on Aristotle’s interest in the description and organization of “difference” in all of these fields and demonstrates that the same theories and methods used in the logical and abstract categorization of difference were also employed by Aristotle in his approach to both natural and political science. ❧ The first section of the project is concerned with Aristotle’s conceptualization of a logical system of categorization and with his inquiries into biological science. This part of the dissertation is primarily concerned with with Aristotle’s writings on biology and zoology, primarily the Parts of Animals, the Generation of Animals, and the History of Animals, revolves around a key set of concepts: ousia (“being” or “essence”), phusis (“innate nature”), and poiotēs (“quality”) as well as terms that form the core of Aristotle’s hierarchical system of classification in the Categories: genos (“genus”), eidos (“species”), atomon (“individual thing”), and diaphora (“difference”). ❧ The second part of the project shifts to Aristotle’s political philosophy. In the Aristotelian curriculum the study of politics was underpinned by principles and observations drawn from the natural sciences. Through a reading the Politics, the dissertation demonstrates how the methods and terminology of categorization were of the utmost importance for students of political science. This section of the study also also explores how empirical knowledge of the natural world, such as the understanding of reproductive science, the heritability of phenotypic traits, biological hybridism, and animal physiology, enables a statesman to maintain a polis populated by citizens of sound mind and body. |
| Keyword | Aristotle; Greek political thought; ancient science; taxonomy; phenotypes |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Cirillo, Thomas McCulloch |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-CirilloTho-696.pdf |
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| Full text | CATEGORIZING DIFFERENCE: CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY by Thomas McCulloch Cirillo A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CLASSICS) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Thomas McCulloch Cirillo |
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