When Aristotle speaks of the divine he is not – the point must be made again – invoking a divine craftsman for none exists; rather, he is telling us that immortality is a property of divine things and that reproduction makes animals a little bit divine. We are beginning to touch on Aristotle’s theology, his ultimate explanation for why the cosmos is arranged the way it is and its relationship to an immortal God. Why should animal kinds be immortal? This is where we come to the end of explanation, to one of those indemonstrable axioms that lie at the bottom of every Aristotelian science, and
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