Aristotle was a Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who made pioneering contributions across many fields. He founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens where he taught and wrote on diverse topics including physics, biology, metaphysics and politics. As the founder of zoology, Aristotle classified animals based on traits like blood and habitat. He viewed living things as existing in a hierarchical order with humans at the top. Aristotle is considered the father of logic and political science for his works in those areas.

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Nayana S
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Natural Science
ARISTOTLE –taxonomy of living organisms
MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE PATHANAPURAM
Submitted To
Dr George Varghese
Assistant Professor
Mount Tabor Training College Pathanapuram
EDU 01: KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM:PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

2. ARISTOTLE
 CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING
BEING
 FOUNDER OF ZOOLOGY

3. ARISTOTLE EARLY LIFE
Aristotle was born in 384B.C in stagira in northern Greece.
His father Nicomachus died when Aristotle was a child.
At seventeen years he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens.
He spend 20 years as a student and teacher at the school.
Plato died in 347 Aristotle left Athens.

4. In 335 B.C , Aristotle had returned to Athens, establishing his own
school , namely Lyseum.
His writings cover a vast range of subjects including physics,
biology, metaphysics, logic, poetry, ethics , politics etc.
Notable works – On the soul, Politics, Prior Analytics, Categories,
History of Animals.
Aristotle died in 323 B.C.
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5. INTRODUCTION
Aristotle was one of the greatest philosopher who ever lived and the first
genuine scientist in contributions
He made pioneer contributions to all fields of philosophy and science.
He invented in the field of formal logic and he identified the various scientific
disciplines and their relationship to each other.
Aristotle was also a teacher and founded his own school in Athens, knowns as
Lyceum.
Father of biology.
Father of zoology
Father of logic
Father of political science

6. CLASSIFICATIONOF LIVING BEINGS
 In his book Historia Animalium , Aristotle was the first person in history to venture into the
classification of different animals.
 Based on the presence of blood ,he created two different groups such as animal with blood and animal
without blood.
 Based on their habitat he classified animals as one that live in water and other one that live in land.
 All living being could be grouped in the hierarchical system.
 He placed the human species highest in this hierarchy
 The Aristotle view of plant reproduction – Higher form plants like trees and flowers were animated
with a vegetative soul .
 Lower forms such as fungus and moss was generated spontaneously in decaying matter.
 Flies, worms and other small animals born from decaying matter through process of spontaneous
generation.

7. FOUNDER OF ZOOLOGY
 Aristotle is also known as the father of zoology.
 From his classification of living being primarily involved
different species of the animal kingdom only.
 History of animals , movements of animals, progression of
animals were based on the study of different land, water,
and aerial animals.
 One of his early observational experiments included
dissecting birds eggs during the different stages of
embryonic development inside the egg

8. CONCLUSION
 Aristotle was one of the greatest philosopher who ever lived and
the first genuine scientist in history.He made pioneer contribution
of all field of philosophy and science, he identified the various
scientific disciplines and explored their relationship to each
other.

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