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Will Grannis
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Politics I.8.1
“the other animals exist for the sake of man”
A note on Aristotle's hierarchy of ends: the only “end” of a thing here is to satisfy the needs of the next level up — large animals exist to furnish pelts for men, and so on. One reason for this, I think, is that there is no mention of the…
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