Topic > The evolution of modern biology and Aristotelian biology

Aristotelian science has the two stages towards which it tends, the physical and immediate description, and the more distant description of the natural essence of something. Modern science seems to target only the first of these principles and has completely given up on the second. Aiming at the first stage, however, modern biology has extended Aristotle's principle of exploring the observable aspects of an organism and delved into the imperceptible layers of cells, proteins, and DNA. But by going this far he forced himself to be specific and blind to the general nature of an organism, instead reducing himself “to microversions of oneself and, ultimately, to chemistry and physics.” Modern biology acts as if each individual process, when combined, is what makes up the organism, as if the whole is made up of the constituent parts, and that is why it breaks it down to the molecular level because if it can fully explain how all the smallest work processes can explain the organism as a whole. This is the final depth of the departure from the Aristotelian scientific method because, by thus going beyond the observable and the whole organism, modern biology fails to realize the essential nature of the whole organism itself. The roots of the modern biological method can be seen in Aristotle's system of observation and new knowledge arising from previously described and known information, however, beyond this, it seems that modern biology has lost the more holistic view of the organism and of its essential nature that Aristotelian biology targeted in its