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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings

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Today's episode will be an interview about animals in medieval philosophy with

Ujana Teovan who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of

Yveskila in Finland. Hi, Yohana.

Hello, thanks for coming on the podcast.

It's my pleasure.

Medieval philosophers, when they think about animals, are responding mostly to the Aristotelian tradition.

And in the Aristotelian tradition.

And in the Aristotelian tradition,

there's a pretty strong contrast between animal nature

and human nature, even though humans are, of course,

a kind of animal as well, which we'll get on to discussing.

But what would be the traditional dividing line according to Aristotelian philosophy between

humans and non-human animals?

Well, the basic idea that is at the bottom of the medieval thinking is the Aristotelian

distinction in the three different kinds of souls, the vegetative, sensitive and rational.

They give different kinds of powers to various kinds of beings.

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