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Abstract I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and self-moving animals. A teleology of the practical is a teleological account of the highest practical goals of animal and human self-motion. I argue that Aristotle conceives of such highest practical goals as goals that are contingently related to their realizations. Animal and human self-motion is the kind of action in which certain state of affairs that realize values are mechanized.

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  • I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and selfmoving animals

  • Does Aristotle have a teleology of the practical? A teleology of the practical, as I understand it, is a common teleological account of animal and human self-motion

  • In order to state my case as clearly as I can I will start with a description of how Aristotle describes the workings of final causes in Posterior Analytics II 11, to apply the general framework to the case of Aristotle’s commensurately universal teleological description of the goals of animal and human action in MA 6

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I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and selfmoving animals. For Aristotle, the scientific teleological explanation of all phenomena with final causes requires three structural elements: an abstract universal goal (A) that grounds their goodness, a physical realizer (B) in the form of a thing or state of affairs whose physical existence is achievable by some productive action, and that productive action itself (C).

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