ARISTOTLE'S CLASSIFICATION

1. EDU01 – KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM:PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVES
TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS
ARISTOTLE
SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
DR GEORGE VARGHESE SERAH JACOB
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OPTIONAL:ENGLISH
MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE MOUNT TABOR TRAINING
PATHANAPURAM PATHANAPURAM

2. ARISTOTLE
GREEK PHILOSOPHER
BORN ON 384 BC
DISCIPLE OF PLATO
TUTOR OF ALEXANDER OF MACEDONIA

3. ARISTOTLE
• LYCEUM WAS THE SCHOOL STARTED BY HIM
• FAMOUS BOOK “POLITICS”
• HE WAS A REALIST

4. HE WAS POPULARLY KNOWN
AS :
FATHER OF LOGIC
FATHER OF ZOOLOGY
FATHER OF BIOLOGY
FATHER OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

5. ARISTOTLE
• HE MADE FIRST SCIENTIFIC ATTEMPT TO CLASSIFY LIVING ORGANISMS
• DEVELOPED FIRST SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS IN HIS
BOOK “ HISTORY OF ANIMALS/HISTORIA ANIMALIUM (LATIN)”

6. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS BY ARISTOTLE
• TAXONOMY :- BRANCH OF BIOLOGY
DEALS WITH GROUPING AND NAMING OF ORGANISMS

7. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS BY ARISTOTLE
HE GROUPED LIVING ORGANISMS INTO TWO GROUPS
1) ANIMALS
2) PLANTS

8. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS BY ARISTOTLE
PLANTS WERE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR SIZE AND MORPHOLOGY INTO
THREE :-
• HERBS
• SHRUBS
• TREES

9. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS
BY ARISTOTLE
PLANTS
HERBS SHRUBS TREES
Soft Plant Body Woody Woody
Main stem absent Main stem Present(TRUNK)

10. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS BY
ARISTOTLE
ANIMALS WERE CLASSIFIED INTO TWO :
• BASED ON BLOOD
• BASED ON PLACE THEY LIVED / BASED ON MOVEMENT

11. TAXONOMY OF LIVING ORGANISMS
BY ARISTOTLE

12. (ENAIMA) (ANAIMA)