Individu, espèce et ressemblance dans la théorie aristotélicienne de la génération animale

Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 100 (4):533-562 (1995)
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Dans la biologie d'Aristote, on voit volontiers, après Balme, une biologie sans espèces, la reproduction apparaissant alors comme une transmission de ressemblances individuelles. La prise en compte des diverses références à la ressemblance dans la théorie de la génération, montre cependant que pour Aristote, il existe des types; s'il y a plus d'une façon de garantir la perpétuation de ceuxci, la place des ressemblances individuelles est en tous cas mineure. It is now often thought with Balme that Aristotle's zoology is a zoology without species, in which reproduction is but the transmission of individual resemblances. If one takes into account all the references to individual, sexual and specific resemblances in the theory of generation, one can see that, according to Aristotle, types exist; there is more than one way of perpetuating a type, but individual resemblances always remain a question of minor interest.

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