Animals
animal · 7 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
animals · all other animals · ant · beasts · buffalo · cow · dog · dumb animals · many of the animals · other animals
in the texts
Eudemian Ethics
Non-human creatures cited generally for their instinctive drive to produce and protect their offspring, used as evidence of a law of nature.
This is why even animals have the philoprogenitive instinct, which urges them to produce offspring and also to protect the offspring produced.
Metaphysics
Non-human animals cited collectively as evidence that the same sensible things produce impressions in animals contrary to those they produce in humans.
And further they say that many of the animals as well get from the same things impressions which are contrary to ours, and that the individual himself does not always think the same in matters of sense-perception.
Vitae philosophorum
Animals, mentioned as living things that arise within worlds and as a source of natural signs comparable to weather signs.
The signs in the sky which betoken the weather may be due to mere coincidence of the seasons, as is the case with signs from animals seen on earth, or they may be caused by changes and alterations in the air.
] For nobody can prove that in one sort of world there might not be contained, whereas in another sort of world there could not possibly be, the seeds out of which animals and plants arise and all the rest of the things we see.
Antidosis
Non-human animals used as a contrast for the human capacities of wisdom and speech.
For you, yourselves, are pre-eminent and superior to the rest of the world, not in your application to the business of war, nor because you govern yourselves more excellently or preserve the laws handed down to you by your ancestors more faithfully than others, but in those qualities by which the nature of man rises above the other animals, and the race of the Hellenes above the barbarians, namely …
Timaeus
The class of animals other than humans anticipated as arising later, needing nails.
For those who were constructing us knew that out of men women should one day spring and all other animals;
Letters to Lucilius
Non-human creatures used throughout as comparative examples showing that bodily goods are not uniquely human.
Add that many things which wish to seem goods fall more fully to animals than to man.
it grows worthless if it passes from the best part of us to the worst and is transferred to the senses, which are nimbler in dumb animals.
the rest he shares with animals and even with plants.
Vrhaspatitattva
Animal forms named as destinations for a soul overcome by tamas and forgetting through excessive sleep and passion.
Such is the destination of the *ātmā* that is attached to following the word of passion.