Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

The Enlightenment was a weird time. We owe practically all of modern civilization to Enlightenment-era ideas, but it created a whole mess of problems. This book starts off by reminding you that until the Enlightenment, the authority on how to classify life forms was Aristotle. And that's actually true for a lot of things. Ancient Greek philosophers were acknowledged experts for thousands of years. What sort of a comment is that on society between Hellenism and Enlightenment?

Of course, the only reason that could be a negative comment is because of Enlightenment. Fun!

I haven't finished the book. I'm like a fifth of the way in, actually. But the title itself is what caught my eye. Enlightenment disrupted the idea of a natural order and challenged many assumptions about how reality works. It broke up the idea of an ordained order in nature and that challenged the idea of an ordained order in society. But Enlightenment was still all about putting things in boxes.

Anyway, here's a link to the book's publisher's site.