ANT E101 Lecture 2: Ant E 101 - Class 2 (Spring)
Document Summary
Sought natural causes for biological and other earthly phenomena. Notion of change - humans and other animals descended from fish. Plato (427-347 bc) - the republic world. Concept of eidos , an abstract form" that is imperfectly imitated in the real. Species have a defining essence that is fixed and unchangeable. Organized and classified organisms into a scala naturae or great chain of. The european middle ages: conceptualization of a static world. Most of the population could not read or write. Scientific knowledge was monopolized by religions institutions. Fixity of species - each species has a fixed and unchanging essence - science documents the diversity in the natural world to appreciate and provide evidence for the grand works of god. Great chain of being - humans at the top of a linear sequence. Argument from design - anatomical structures resulting from the creation were planned by a grand designer to meet the purposes for which they were required.
