Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle: Section 5

In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University professor Martha Nussbaum. Aristotle overcomes Plato's dualism of the intelligible and sensible worlds with his principle of inseparable nature of eternal matter and form. The principles of potentiality and actuality are examined, along with Aristotle's theory of the four causes—material, formal, efficient, and final—which account for changes in all things. These theories of constancy and change are credited with the progress of scientific inquiry over the ages.

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[czegoszukasz]

Thanks!

Please add this part to your "Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle" playlist.

[flame0430]

Whoops, thanks for letting me know!

[FreeThought10]

It's for everyone. Except for retards like you.:)

[00Rasta]

Watching this in class @ the University of Illinois! :)

[German1184]

Thank you very much, Martha Nussbaum.

[EricHerboso]

I know this comment will make me look dumb, but I've never seen Martha Nussbaum this young before. My image of her is always as someone at least 50 years old.

[thruthem]

Burned my bible!

[Lucifer986]

is she reading from notes or something? looking down .........anyone notice wig

[myrealnamehere]

@borat707 There are so many things wrong with this rant. Even Plato was oligarchical and elitist, and in some respects worse than Aristotle. His story about Thales shows that he had no interest in money, and he says in his Politics that the ideal state should have no more than 100,000 people in it, so both of your statements about him and Alexander are false. Alchemy was well-established by the Middle Ages, and it brought us neither relativity nor relativism, none of which justify oppression.

[S2Cents]

@borat707

What philosopher(s) do you find superior to Aristotle?

[Tobi1087Tobi]

Philosophy - only one thing that matters !!!

[borat707]

Aristotle was an elitist and oligarch who cheapened himself by selling his knowledge as private tutor to Alexander of Macedon. When Alexander died, he died, and the one-world government idealized by Aristotle failed. He paved the way for medieval philosophers, who brought us alchemy and relativity and all the other mumbo jumbo to justify cruelty and oppression. Machiavelli, deMaistre, Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, the Nazis and the neocons are all a product of the school of Aristotle.

[briantheaceofspades]

say bitch be cool!