Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle: Section 2

[johnvil1]

nice..nice.

[exisnih]

RationalEmotive, the fact that you're committing the ad hominem fallacy while simultaneously misidentifying it makes me wonder why your remark was thrice approved. Ad hominems are only fallacious when the conclusion of the argument in question isn't itself a personal attack. In this case it is, namely against Martha Nussbaum, and thus the ad hominem is valid. Selfjaguar has indicated flaws in her presentation which were not replicated by any other philosopher in this program.

[inaneRexx]

Watching these two sexual dynamos has got me all hot and bothered.

[360jarhead]

Good. I like her understanding of Aristotle very much.

As for Dobrol comments: perhaps you might drop philosophical study for a few years and then come back to it at a later time in your life.

[boxingaddict25]

I'm taking a metaphysics course in college right now. We just finished reading Plato's Phaedo, and now we are reading select parts of Aristotle's De Anima. I must say Aristotle's writings are much more difficult to comprehend than Plato's. This clip helped me out for sure.

[DobroHounddog]

In fact, she completely extinguishes anything like the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, particularity and universality, or what Aristotle juxtaposed as the difference between the knowledge (episteme) of the few wise and good men (hoi agathoi) and the opinions (doxa) of the ignorant and many (hoi polloi). Aristotle's appropriation of Reason (nous)--- from Anaxagoras--- is indeed, contra Nussbaum, a manner by which we are to transcend caprice, subjectivity, and experience.

[DobroHounddog]

As such, in these sections of the video she upholds a standpoint-epistemology--- i.e., women can only understand women, an individual can only understand him/herself, no one can possible understand what its like to be Argentinian, etc. This sort of relativism--- which I think she gets from Nietzsche, Foucault, etc., whom she admires quite a bit--- is ENTIRELY inconsistent with the ancient tradition of though which she also claims to admire quite a bit.

[DobroHounddog]

I appreciate anyone who loves the classics as much as Nussbaum, but, I really must say that, from an epistemological perspective, Nussbaum completely spins Aristotle specifically and Hellenic philosophy in general. Note how, during the first two minutes of part two, she brings up Aristotle's concept of episteme (science/knowledge). In part one and in these two minutes of part two, she claims that Aristotle is a (vulgar) materialist who believes that we cannot escape our own experience.

[arn123321]

flame is getting me through my degree.  mad props

[ExMachine]

obviously womens equality has a long way to go...

[iggleton]

she is quite hot but is wearin too much makeup

[sefjaguar]

she is by far the worst of all bryan magee's interviewee's. Her voice is irritating, and she rambles alot.

[RationalEmotive]

Could it be you are misogynistic, selfjaguar? Serving out ad hominems is not argumentation at all.

[Timurito1]

Yes. he likes her:P

[berthos2]

vulgar comments lol

[Shalashaska8636]

she does seem quite 'stimulated'

[Shalashaska8636]

Do you think Bri took her out for a drink after and serenaded her?

I bet he showed her his 'definite form'

[ClaretotheZ]

obviously...that's why you cant see her right hand

[berthos2]

you can not see my hand right now either