Paul Strathern - Aristotle in 90 minutes

Paul Strathern - Aristotle in 90 minutes wiki: Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian Physics. In the biological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the nineteenth century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late nineteenth century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially Eastern Orthodox theology, and the scholastic tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

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punkvijay (2012-01-27)

Paul Strathern - Socrates in 90 minutes

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eros_man_gr (2012-05-05)

Thanks for the upload. This is definitely one the worse lectures, because's Strathern misreprents Aristotle on several issues. Aristotle was decidedly not in favour of science; he openly criticized more scientific thinkers like the atomists. He wrote a lot about nature and animals, but it was rarely based on observation; it was based on pure logic and how things ought to be. Actual experimentation and verification was considered to be wrong. Also, logic as we know it today does not resemble how Aristotle used it; it is a more modern invention. There is a reason scholastics loved him and scientists worked hard to disprove him.