Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 10 | The Contemplative Life | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This video focuses on Aristotle's work, the Nicomachean Ethics, and examines his discussion in book 10 of life centered around the good of contemplation (theoria). In this portion of his work, Aristotle clearly decides in favor of this as the best type of life for human beings to live.
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Just finished my first reading of N.Ethics as a lay person. Your videos have pretty much made it comprehendible for me! I have recently left Catholicism and I am looking for reasons to be ethical and how to live. Aristotle seems great! Do you have any recommendations on how to put this stuff into practice?
I think that's more of a long conversation than a comment sort of thing
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Thank you about this lecture, nice to hear you talking about this meaningful way if living. Just found you, is there anything about Hannah Arentd.
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Would you say that mysticism - if practiced in a deliberate, methodical manner - would in some cases be classified as what Aristotle would call "contemplation"? I'm a meditaror, and that sometimes seems like mysticism to me.
Well, I would say two things. First - Aristotle himself would not, I think, say so. Second - there's a good bit of that in pagan and Christian neo-Platonist traditions
In our present day, I would argue that one would need a techne to earn money, phronisis and justice to live in such a way as to make leisure. Without courage, suffering long term plans cannot be done. Without temperance, one would become distracted by lessor goods. All of these are included in, and instrumental to the contemplative life. I question that humans cannot model themselves upon the gods, and practice "self-thinking thought". Perhaps Descartes had this in mind when he came to the cogitio argument. (many arguments for and against come to mind). I need to explore what the energeia of the mind Aristotle thinks is definitive for the contemplative act, and in what ways it is the same and different from theoria in other traditions.
Some people need a skill to earn money. Some are fortunate enough to grow up in wealthy families.
Contemplating your existence is the most important activity
It's AN important activity, to be sure. Definitely not the most for Aristotle
In which sense does contemplation refer to another reality than oneself and is crucial for Aristotle in terms of Happiness / Eudaimonia?
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Thanks. Not for homework though.
Sure reads like one. That rather specific question, easily answered for oneself by reading through the text or even by watching other videos.
I agree. @@GregoryBSadler
Seems to me like this slightly contradicts Aristotle's emphasis on eudaimonia earlier in Nichomachean Ethics, in the way that he declares it as a life of greater self-sufficiency than the life of virtue - which is what eudaimonia is largely based on. Would this be a valid criticism or a misinterpretation from my part?
It would be neither.
It’s a tension in his work that is a commonplace of Aristotle scholarship
@@GregoryBSadler Ah I see, thanks
It's a tragedy that the best type of life is the least often lived. Philosophy is so often scorned and treated as useless speculation. I suppose I'll have to partly blame certain philosophers for giving philosophy a bad name.
Academic philosophers in the last century or so - as a group, with some exceptions - certainly haven't helped
Gregory B. Sadler I suspect philosophy as it's taught in university suffers from something I'm noticing in high school, a problem not affecting science. In science, it doesn't matter how eloquently you write - if you say something wrong, you'll lose marks on it. In English however, you could say something completely false but still get a good mark as long as you sound convincing and the like. I suspect that the same thing happens in university philosophy classes.
Sure, if you describe (say) Plato's view on the soul incorrectly, you'll lose marks... but if you advocate for (say) Logical Positivism - something universally abandoned by philosophers and for good reason - the teacher probably won't penalize you for that error.
Scientists seems to care more for what's objectively true than philosophers do any more. Sure, Aristotle said that "The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it," but I'm pretty confident he didn't mean allow error to subsist. If fallacies in students' work aren't corrected by their teachers, they'll continue to propagate those fallacies and make it look like philosophy allows people to get away with nonsense.