“Aristotle’s teleological view of nature may be summarized as “Nature does nothing in vain.” Using this regulative principle, Aristotle realized that the understanding of function and purpose is crucial to the understanding of nature. … One can see in these…principles the germ of relational biology: a natural system is alive not because of its matter, but because of the constitutive organization of its phenomenological entailment. The esse of an organism is this special entailment…”
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
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