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• Catherine McKeen, "Authoritarian Rule in Plato's Statesman

  Wed, May 19

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• Emily Kress, "What Tools do you Need to Build an Animal? Heat and Coldness in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals"

  Wed, Jun 30

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  Jun 30, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

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  Aristotle analogizes the generation of an animal to what happens in craft production: just as a builder uses a saw and a hammer as “tools” to build a house, so too the soul uses “tools” to build an animal. Emily identifies and attempts to resolve a puzzle about these tools.

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