Page |36 something like inclusive fitness and kin father is preserved, by a kind of altruism? succession, in the person of the son, it is Let me start with Aquinas. In the i furally re ating that me = hen 2 al ta “Supplement” to his Summa Theologica the a mgs orongings to the at a TI Aquinas’s main source for this insight , was Aristotle’s Politics. In one place Thomas follows Aristotle and the Aristotle wrote, “ In common with other Roman natural-law theorist Ulpian in animals and with plants, mankind have a asserting that humans share with all natural desire to leave behind them an animals an inclination to have offspring. image of themselves.” ° Having said this, he then introduces a , ' very modern sounding commentary on . Hiawewek, m bot Austotle and the uniqueness to humans of the long Aquinas, sued elaims were not Just aloo period of infant dependency. Notice the thes IIRACaISS Gt Kein continuity, they similarity of his argument to the words were statements about the origin and of Cacioppo above. Aquinas writes, need ot lonp term investarents by parents at the human level. In contrast Yet nature does not incline thereto in to his teacher Plato who, in his Republic, the same way in all animals; since had advocated removing children from there are animals whose offspring their biological parents in an effort to are able to seek food immediately overcome the civil frictions created by after birth, or are sufficiently fed by nepotism, ~* Aristotle counters with an their mother; and in these there is no assertion about the origins of human tie between male and female; care. Aristotle wrote, “That which is whereas in those whose offspring common to the greatest number has the needing the support of both parents, least care bestowed upon it.” He although for a short time, there is a believed that in Plato’s state, “love will certain tie, as may be seen in certain be watery....Of the two qualities which birds. In man, however, since the chiefly inspire regard and