The anima in animal is literally just Latin root for soul. Descartes and the rest of the enlightenment/modern thinkers are a bunch of cataclysmic fools duped by the dark magic alchemy that birthed their zeitgeist and methods. This faggots "philosophy" along with Bacons domination of nature has brought man and the earth to the verge of a global holocaust/mass extinction event not seen since a fucking 6 mile wide asteroid killed off the dinosaurs. Plato and Aristotle were always right about classical natural philosophy and right, which entails harmony with nature, both externally via the environment and other animals, and with ourselves.