Abstract
The book offers a systematic inquiry into Aristotle's conception of man with an emphasis on its biological framework. Its point of departure lies in Aristotle's explanation of how anatomy and physiology enable each living creature to accomplish its proper way of life.
In contrast to other living things, human beings are adjusted not only for a determinate set of tasks, but built for the exceptionally wide variety of activities including those that find their expression in complex political regimes. Moreover, if all animal activities seem to have their correlates in human actions, the latter also imply something unique over and above biology proper: human posture, together with its underlying physiology, is naturally designed so as to reinforce our capacity to think and, even more uniquely, to deliberate.