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In his treatise, Generation of Animals , Aristotle takes up the theme of the origins of animal and human life. Despite Aristotle’s current status as defective from a feminist point of view, his treatise is worthy of renewed exposition for several reasons. Examination of the philosophical problems involved in the subject of generation is what is required to move beyond accusation toward understanding the extent and the source of the perceived sexual imbalance that develops in this work. The inclusion of formal and final causes in a scheme explaining the origination of an organism presents a chief point of difference between classical and modern scientific outlooks. Essentialism need not be a source of gender problems, as many feminist critics contend. Rather, conceived along Aristotle’s lines it can provide the outline of a solution to a variety of practical and theoretical difficulties relating to the two sexes. The generation of a new creature within the scheme is the actualizing of potential.
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