#159 Aristotle: The World's Greatest Philosopher?
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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) What’s So Great About Aristotle?
(03:06) Actuality and Potentiality
(12:59) Forms: Aristotle vs Plato
(20:02) The Four Causes
(25:16) Evolution and Final Causation
(29:40) Did Aristotle Believe In God?
(32:38) The Unmoved Mover
(38:58) The Soul (Is Not What You Might Think)
(48:51) How Aristotle Invented Formal Logic
(55:54) The Nicomachean Ethics
(01:15:56) Ethics as Descriptive
(01:21:04) Where To Start With Aristotle
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