I have your book and love the fact that an academic is still in love with her original inspiration. Excellent talk and I will re-read your book, again. Cheers!
Hard to imagine how it would be possible to present a better concise overview of Aristotle than this. But I admit I was hoping for a bit more on his ontology & theology, in view of his influence in the middle ages.
Might Aristotle, like Thomas Edison or modern corporations with their employees, have been given credit for the wide range of observations and accomplishments of his students?
It is difficult sometimes to know when his texts were heavily edited in later antiquity., but in general with his major works like the Nicomachean Ethics and the Metaphysics and the Politics there is no doubt at all of their basic authenticity
Nobody is in a position to argue against your supposition. People don't like to be told "nobody really knows". Only the most dogmatic think that they do know..
This is what we all need, a great lecture on a great man. None of that social studies and stuff. Why can't all places of higher learning be like Gresham college.
Aristotle was an intelligent man. He no doubt read Thucydides and understood the issues in that war revolving around slavery. He would have no doubt recognized them in American history and so I think he wouldn't have had any problem understanding rap.
The upper classes always seem to grow fond of controlling society in their own way, and that usually leaves out the majority of people. Aristotle, apparently, was not immune to this idea. But in truth, all forms of human government tend to corruption. Where there can remain a division of powers in some format, whether as the founders of the American Republic spelled them out, or as the British developed them through Parliament, or the Romans had at first with the Senate and Tribunes and later the Emperor and his military forces, there can be more stability, but all roads lead to the downfall of Rome eventually.
If you are asking about an English translation of his complete works, the standard translation containing all his extant works translated into English by different distinctive scholars in the field, collected in two large volumes, is the revised Oxford translation edited by Johnathan Barnes. I would recommend that you start from there.
@@edithmayhall Oh you don't have to apologise for anything, as my criticism was not directed towards you at all . I thank you, and your husband, for the wonderful educational content in these unfathomable times. Keep up the great work 🥇🏆
Modern technology has given many people impossibly high standards. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded in someone's house, which it was, but I heard and understood every word of this excellent lecture.
Aristotle said - Peri Hermenias/De Interpretatione IV:IV - 'It is impossible then that being a man should mean not being a man - i.e. - it will not be possible to be and not be the same thing' & he takes this conflation of man & thing to consolidate the 'law' [principium] of non-contradiction 'not both A and not-A simultaneously'. In creating Non-Cantorian set theory [= Mengenlehre] I showed quantities not obeying this 'law' & in fact used the Grandi [= Fourier-Bolzano] series = -1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ... as a denumerable isomorphic line to yield the ambiguous sums 0, 1 and 1/2, using the latter to suggest an 'in-betweener' function for different infinities. As non-contradiction is a correlate of tertium exclusi and identity, I considered it evident A = A in Aristotelianism implies A is not subject to 'slippage' - i.e. - it holds to a myth of fixity in which becoming [Gk: gignomai] represses movement. Aristotle himself regarded these 'laws' as without proof & in his first ever logical treatise circa 350 BC its very title Analutika Protera Ln: Analytica Priora equates analutos = solved & episteme = knowing logicality whereas, in fact, solvability is based on the falsehood of no intermediary between contradictory statements. Aristotle's self-evidence for axiomata actually assumes a self which solves [= analuo upo principium tertii exclusi], but I connected recursive, infinite bases - themselves augmentative & thus incomplete - with "human beings", demonstrating mortals are neither human nor beings. Aristotelianism bedevils western ideologies in its Essentialism & it blocks TRANSFIGURATION, whereas Platonism at least indicates homoiosis to theo without, however, knowing how to actually achieve immortalization.
Aristotle is one of history's greatest criminals in equating flesh & substance. This is as insane as a diver identifying with his suit. Aristotle thought mortality & life as a thing - in rebus - complete. There's nothing beyond autonomous perseity & this fails the immortal within. He was unaware of Overbeck's laws > Theosis = Genius, Atheism = Insanity, Immortality = Life, and Mortality = Death. Despite Christ affirming Transfiguration = Immortalization = Divinization = Apotheosis = Metamorphosis = Everlasting Life, philosophers negate this with Aristotle's fictions
@@valmarsiglia In the words of the great philosopher Jerry Lee Lewis, "There ain't one word of religion in the Bible!" And yes, I do know that his cousin is Jimmy Swaggart..
I have your book and love the fact that an academic is still in love with her original inspiration. Excellent talk and I will re-read your book, again. Cheers!
Gresham College, an extraordinary Institution, superbly run by less than a handful of the nicest people one could hope 🤣 for.
I wholeheartedly agree
Hard to imagine how it would be possible to present a better concise overview of Aristotle than this. But I admit I was hoping for a bit more on his ontology & theology, in view of his influence in the middle ages.
Yes, so sad that by the time I'd finished laying out his tools and basic ideas there was so little time...
Love Aristotle and Gresham. Thanks for both coming together here.
I really enjoyed this lecture. More, please.
Fantastic work Cheers
I love Aristotle. Thanks for sharing.
Might Aristotle, like Thomas Edison or modern corporations with their employees, have been given credit for the wide range of observations and accomplishments of his students?
It’s doubtful that was the case.
It is difficult sometimes to know when his texts were heavily edited in later antiquity., but in general with his major works like the Nicomachean Ethics and the Metaphysics and the Politics there is no doubt at all of their basic authenticity
Nobody is in a position to argue against your supposition. People don't like to be told "nobody really knows". Only the most dogmatic think that they do know..
It seems impossible that Ari did all the research into Greek cities constitutions and the animal analysis etc. He must have had a team.
Amazing lecture
this is great thank you
This is what we all need, a great lecture on a great man. None of that social studies and stuff. Why can't all places of higher learning be like Gresham college.
@Will Gibbons how glad I am that Aristotle didn't take that view of the matter.
@@AlecBrady Well tell what view of mine which I stated that he wouldn't have held
Thanks so much Will. I am not averse to Social Studies myself, however!
well done. your enthusiasm was a treat.
I’ve always wondered what Aristotle would make of ‘West Coast rap’.
Please clarify!
Aristotle was an intelligent man. He no doubt read Thucydides and understood the issues in that war revolving around slavery. He would have no doubt recognized them in American history and so I think he wouldn't have had any problem understanding rap.
Thomas Jamison - He would understand rap; just not as poetry.
"Seeing is what is beliving "
Wel, Aristotle didn't go that far! But he did think our sense-perceptions were more reliable than Plato did!
The upper classes always seem to grow fond of controlling society in their own way, and that usually leaves out the majority of people. Aristotle, apparently, was not immune to this idea. But in truth, all forms of human government tend to corruption. Where there can remain a division of powers in some format, whether as the founders of the American Republic spelled them out, or as the British developed them through Parliament, or the Romans had at first with the Senate and Tribunes and later the Emperor and his military forces, there can be more stability, but all roads lead to the downfall of Rome eventually.
"Happiness is not a permanent state" I guess people get overwhelmed and take their feet off the gas. Thank you for your time.
Based Aristotle, thumbs up if you agree
Aristotle's work clearly needs careful study from dead trees. Is there a satisfactory edition of it all, and if so, who publishes it?
If you are asking about an English translation of his complete works, the standard translation containing all his extant works translated into English by different distinctive scholars in the field, collected in two large volumes, is the revised Oxford translation edited by Johnathan Barnes. I would recommend that you start from there.
@@saggafw Thanks.
I can only pray that Gresham would invest in better audio recording equipment for such fantastic lectures.
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Sorrry about that--it was filmed by my husband in our living room because it''s lockdown! Don't blame Gresham!
@@edithmayhall Oh you don't have to apologise for anything, as my criticism was not directed towards you at all . I thank you, and your husband, for the wonderful educational content in these unfathomable times. Keep up the great work 🥇🏆
@@loolylooly81 My husband did incredibly well and it is interesting that you assumed it was Gresham standard of professional recording!
Modern technology has given many people impossibly high standards. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded in someone's house, which it was, but I heard and understood every word of this excellent lecture.
@@erichodge567 I’m very happy for you Eric
There are only nine of 10 categories listed; quantity is missing. Sorry, don't mean to be pedantic. OK, maybe a little ;)
Quantity = magnitude. What is visually missing is state or condition, which she verbally referred to.
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3:16. Look at the slideshow for 3 branches of epistēmia (epistemology)
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Aristotle’s logic was the basis of Bolleian logic which formed basis of computer language
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It's all Greek to me.
So read him in your mother tongue!
Aristotle said - Peri Hermenias/De Interpretatione IV:IV - 'It is impossible then that being a man should mean not being a man - i.e. - it will not be possible to be and not be the same thing' & he takes this conflation of man & thing to consolidate the 'law' [principium] of non-contradiction 'not both A and not-A simultaneously'. In creating Non-Cantorian set theory [= Mengenlehre] I showed quantities not obeying this 'law' & in fact used the Grandi [= Fourier-Bolzano] series = -1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ... as a denumerable isomorphic line to yield the ambiguous sums 0, 1 and 1/2, using the latter to suggest an 'in-betweener' function for different infinities. As non-contradiction is a correlate of tertium exclusi and identity, I considered it evident A = A in Aristotelianism implies A is not subject to 'slippage' - i.e. - it holds to a myth of fixity in which becoming [Gk: gignomai] represses movement. Aristotle himself regarded these 'laws' as without proof & in his first ever logical treatise circa 350 BC its very title Analutika Protera Ln: Analytica Priora equates analutos = solved & episteme = knowing logicality whereas, in fact, solvability is based on the falsehood of no intermediary between contradictory statements. Aristotle's self-evidence for axiomata actually assumes a self which solves [= analuo upo principium tertii exclusi], but I connected recursive, infinite bases - themselves augmentative & thus incomplete - with "human beings", demonstrating mortals are neither human nor beings. Aristotelianism bedevils western ideologies in its Essentialism & it blocks TRANSFIGURATION, whereas Platonism at least indicates homoiosis to theo without, however, knowing how to actually achieve immortalization.
no u
At that time Turkey did not exist, therefore couldn’t have travelled to Turkey, the modern Turkey was part of Ancient Greece.
I'm sure that as one of the world's leading Classical scholars, she's well aware of that; no need to be obtuse.
Aristotle is one of history's greatest criminals in equating flesh & substance. This is as insane as a diver identifying with his suit. Aristotle thought mortality & life as a thing - in rebus - complete. There's nothing beyond autonomous perseity & this fails the immortal within. He was unaware of Overbeck's laws > Theosis = Genius, Atheism = Insanity, Immortality = Life, and Mortality = Death. Despite Christ affirming Transfiguration = Immortalization = Divinization = Apotheosis = Metamorphosis = Everlasting Life, philosophers negate this with Aristotle's fictions
Hi Jim, well there is always room for lots of debate, which is exactly what Aristotle would have wanted!
"How dare this eminent Classicist not devote her lecture to validating _my_ religion?!" Have a slow clap.
@@valmarsiglia In the words of the great philosopher Jerry Lee Lewis, "There ain't one word of religion in the Bible!" And yes, I do know that his cousin is Jimmy Swaggart..
@@Peasmouldia Lol. Indeed, from Ferriday, Louisiana. Don't forget their other cousin, Mickey Gilley ;)