Aristotle: History's Most Influential Thinker
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Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Steve Theunissen
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
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Source/Further reading:
Aristotle for Everybody: Mortimer J. Adler
Aristotle: His Life and School: Carlo Natali
• The Ancients: Aristotle
You know, I gotta say, Phillip the Second's revelation that his son needed to be better than himself is actually pretty wise.
Deadseven - I know, eh? Not bad for a boozer!
Kinda what we all hope for our children? At least those without borderline personality disorder :D
All Lies!!! They studied at ancient kemet!!!
Terry Sueing Kermit?
Matthew Jones quack
He gave the world the greatest motivational quote ever "you are what you repeatedly do, excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit"
😂😂😂😂😂 lie
I've thought this myself. You aren't what you think. You are what you do.
@@willcorwin2401 I'd argue that's a bit materialistic, thinking IS doing. You wouldn't pour milk without first opening the jug, such that certain actions should be preceded by thought(s). Biology is systematic response. The conditioning of the potential thoughts is as important for higher functions.
For those who don’t know about how Aristotle influenced Alexanders conquests. It was Aristatole who not only predicted but also gave him the idea to have a massive empire where the sun rises and sets at the same time. On that note Alexander came to think he had to conquer the world to make that happen.
Alexander is the practice while Aristotle is the Ariston and Telios, completed.
Their histories were systematically suppressed for centuries after their deaths. How do we know about a specific comment from an ancient conversation?
@@yeahyeah5976 Aristotle is one of the greatest mind in ancient world, he literally had somany genius students. And Alexander is like a hero for western culture. so there I no wonder Many people pressure their biography.
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Wow
What a lineage
Joseph Izzo and then... nothing.
Theophrastus
@@wakawaka1976 How do you know it was "nothing" after Alexander? So "nothing" happened for the next 1000 years?
Alexander was not a philosopher, and his brief association with Aristotle in no way qualifies him as an "heir" to these great philosophers.
@@hankonfire alexander changes the world with a simple idea that the persians werent slaves or inferior instead he tried to unite greeks and persians how the world would have changed if these 2 cultures became one well never know.
Whoa, wait! By Socrates' Paradox, Phillip II is the wisest of them all. He knew what he didn't know and called Aristotle to help his son.
Good thing a truly wise person knows that wisdom isn’t a competition.
YES! Don't you wish your Dad had felt the same, LOL? I know mine didn't! "GET OUT HERE...."
Socrates indeed said, “I only know that I know nothing” while defending himself on the charge of corrupting the local youth by talking to them - seriously.
“You mustn’t be hanging out with Socrates, my son. Stay away from him, or you’ll be grounded for a month.”
Here in Thessaloniki, Greece, we have the main Square named after Aristotle, there is also a statue where you can sit on it or take photos, its pretty cool.
I've been there lol
Ive also been there, i think the statue if Alexander in the video is in Thessaloniki too
@@Nisfornarwhal1990 Yes, Alexanders statue is a couple blocks away, near the White Tower.
Kinda weird how fyromians haven't claimed Aristotle as their own since he was a Macedonian
might have to visit
Thanks for taking a break from serial killers to talk about someone as important as Aristotle. Seriously, that's only half-sarcastic. I'm really enjoying these videos.
And what of Historia Animalium? and Psychology? his physics was incorrect but to say that he's not important is kinda falling short isnt it? Cant forget his obvious thinking ideas.
CRAZY Mustard his physics was obviously incorrect but can people really blame him? He was doing the best he could with what was available to him and his logic and methodology is still in use to this day, I swear some people just don’t give credit where it’s do
That schooling sounds far more interesting than today's
socratic method
This schooling requires qualified, mature teacher and small class of willing students. Also money.
Today you have publicly funded halls trying to socialize animals with depressed servants cosplaying as teachers.
Schools are trying to use inquiry based learning that requires a balance of inductive and deductive reasoning to learn a subject. Unfortunately it's actually not a great way in our day and age to get a good grasp of the fundamental concepts of many commonly taught disciplines. Socratic and inductive based methods of learning become more efficient as you knowledge base grows. Unfortunately there isn't a way to avoid the grind necessary to develop fundamentals.
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@@OkurkaBinLadin So basically, his classes were quality over quantity, while ours are the reversed? An industrialized mass-education system where trying to instill that level of quality would "slow things down?"
I have a disease that is making my organs and nervous system fail... and Simon’s videos ALWAYS GET ME through!
My dad is an ancient history prof. And watching these videos always makes for great conversations between us. Thank you bio-G ❤️❤️
Hope you're ok
RIP
hopefully your still doing good!
Are you still OK??
Simon, you should really become a college professor. Your oration and narrative are the best. Another excellent presentation!
He just reads though.
@@teasit Hoorah!
That would involve a lot of work and a big pay cut.
I don't know if he just reads scripts, but there's something in the text he reads that is seriously getting on my nerves. Am I the only one noticing the rather clumsy sentence structure he uses all the time, in all videos, whereby he states the subject and immediately refers to it with a pronoun after a pause? His wife, she died. Aristotle, he left. Alexander, he succeeded his father... Once you've noticed this bad habit of his, you'll be baffled by how pervasive it is in his scripts. Now and then, for effect, it would be ok because it's not inherently bad. But at this frequency, it's a serious flaw.
Michael Batts He would be a great History professor for sure.
Aristotle not only gave teaching to Alexander the great but also Cassander and Ptolemy two great successors of Alexander. He also taught Theopharstus.
Aristotle seems like the most realistic philosopher of the time. Looking forward to listening to more of his teachings.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early life
3:00 - Chapter 2 - Inventing biology
4:25 - Chapter 3 - Educating alexander
7:30 - Chapter 4 - The lyceum
10:35 - Chapter 5 - Condemnation & death
11:20 - Mid roll ads
12:20 - Chapter 6 - Aristotle through the ages
14:25 - Chapter 7 - Aristotle's writings
15:20 - Chapter 7.1 - The organon
15:25 - Chapter 7.2 - The theoretical
15:30 - Chapter 7.3 - The practical
15:40 - Chapter 7.4 - The rhetoric
15:50 - Chapter 8 - Aristotle on the sciences
18:05 - Chapter 9 - Plato vs aristotle
Wrote 10 million words, 1 million remain... 20%... interesting math.
Well write 5 million words... I'd bet you claim you wrote 10 million as much as your wrist hurt ;-)
@@rolandwoltman7835 your comment is the mount everest of cope
Hahahahaha
Aristotle would have been proud 😁
Jacob two two?
The Most Ambitious Crossover in the history of mankind:
Aristotle tutoring Alexander, the future Great.
LOL 😂
Shake your head
Ambitious is Darwin trying to convince people have monkey origins and not Aristotle…he knew what was he was doing…take a look around.
Basically Merlin and Arthur.
@C I Aboomer?!
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Yes
If you understand Aristotle there is no other person you would want to understand
Always great to learn something every day. Thanks Simon et al
Brilliant work again, Simon. Illuminating and enjoyable. Thank you for all your great videos. If I had you as a teacher at University, I may not have left academia.
Astonishing that these great thinkers of antiquity accepted slavery without question. We are all truly a product of our age no matter how brilliant the mind.
>writes treatises about achieving human excellence
> accepts slavery and ethnostate
Aristotle was the orginal redpilled
@@islandboy9381 makes you think about the credibility and value and the overall nature of modern liberal ideas that are forced down our throats by every possible means imaginable.
Not "without question". Intricate thought.
Slavery of the soul today is incomparably vaster than slavery of the body in days of yor
IKEHH nothing wrong with sexism
The sexes r highly different
@@islandboy9381 There is nothing wrong with ethnostate though. Its matter of opinon, there is no objective reason why ethnostate would be automatically bad. Just because there is wrong way to do it does not make it automatically wrong. Ethnostate does not fight against idea of "live and let live", so there is nothing automatically wrong with it. If there is village somewhere with only people of certain ethnicity (and there are, there are even some isolated tribes even in modern day) they can form themselves into a city state and thus they are technically ethnostate. Problem is all the wrong ways people try to implement it, such as ethnic cleaning.
Your channel is incredible! As a historian I really love getting lost in your channel through autoplay. Keep it up!
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I remember reading Aristotle in college and needing stop re-read paragraphs over and over because they were so dense and full of meaning. Could also be that I was just really dense too. Still, really transformed how I think.
A timely and well researched subject and a truely exceptional man. Thanks Simon.
Wonderful and comprehensive!
I deeply enjoy your work, it's informative and presented succinctly!
Thank you
Happy Christmas, Simon and Biographics team! Thank you for the continued gift of knowledge!
I know this vid’s about Aristotle, but Alexander learned THE ENTIRE ILIAD BY HEART!?!? That takes some dedication! Props to Aristotle for instilling a love of reading in Alexander!
Absolutely astounding how someone from more than 2000 years ago, can have such an affect on our own modern world. I think that if Aristotle had not lived, we might still be living in the middle ages. Someone else may come along and got things moving in the right direction, but that could have taken centuries.
He knew he didn't know anything. Always thinking of some other way to look at it.
His teacher Plato philosophy was use by politicians n all this religions till this day n took Europe into the dark ages if it wasn't for Aristotle philosophy that was completely opposite from his teacher Plato we would still be in the dark ages but thanks to Aristotle philosophy that made Europe raise from the dark ages n America to the beckoned of the world but now in the 21 century Plato philosophy has taking over again in America n again America is heading to the dark ages it seems that Aristotle was the one who had the teachings of Socrates not Plato even dow Plato was supposed to be his student n the teacher of Aristotle
I just found this. Absolutely fantastic, Simon! Thank you.
Not only the most influential; also the greatest. Stumbled on your channel recently. Brilliant work - just subscribed!
Thank you so much for this.. I hope you're planning on covering the other philosophers too?
Merry Christmas Simon, Steve, Jennifer and Shell! 🎅🎄🎉
Thank you and Merry Christmas.
A year later
@@riflebusters1 a year later
@@Biographics the problem that today experts like in the corona virus despite the fact that lockdown didn't work continue with theur assertion.
@C I A i am 29
I loved the comparison of plato's and aristotle's approaches at the end. it kindbof reminds me of how you broke down the differences between edison and tesla. (not a direct comparison, but similarities are definitely there). excellent video! keep em comin!
Excellent! Thank you Simon.
what a great christmas gift from biographics
TH-cam at its' best -- thanks Simon!
As always, your videos are interesting and informative, adding detail to what is often overlooked over time.
This is so educative. My favorite one of yours
Happy Holidays, Simon! Blessings!
We need to let these great minds back in our lives!
Love these videos, plus your other channels, phenomenal work! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🍻
Britannica's Great works of the Western World is a good place to start.
As always Simon quality work, keep it up your going places
This channel is amazing, I hope you never stop.
Thanks for your informative videos. Can you please do a piece on Thomas Aquinas
Great, Now I have to stop cooking to watch the video Simon. Merry Christmas.
Congrats, congrats, bravo for the excellent presentation of the great man of all ages. Thank you so much and waiting for more outstanding and insightful biographies
You’re doing an amazing work!
My thanks to entire team of people behind , Biographics . All and every content is a thing of beauty. Simon being the cherry on the top . Aristotle is one of my favorite western philosophers .
Thank you for this one .
Please do one on Plato and Goethe
Seconding Goethe
Goethe
This was fantastic. Really like this one!
I loved this. Thank you.
What's with those "all stops" during the segment on "The Rhetorical", "The Practical", etc? They were a little funny and made me crack up. Seemed out of place in an otherwise extremely well edited video. Ha ha..
I liked them... it's as if the editor wanted us to focus on them and pay attention.
My paradigm was shifted.
@@rolandwoltman7835 this was the intent but it seemed like an after-thought and the execution was super awful.
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I love all your channels Simon, you are definitely a great narrator and storyteller and I could watch your videos all day. Merry Christmas!
Holy cow, thank you, Mr. Whistler! Your an amaaaaazing host!
Hi Simon! first of, love your channel! i was wondering if you could do a episode of Augusto Pinochet?
Merry Christmas notification squad and Simon and the whole crew 🎄
Merry Christmas Simon, I particularly enjoyed this episode. Well done.
I loved this video very much. I will consider it my second favorite Christmas gift. Thank you as always anbd Merry Christmas.
Biographics..Thanks and Merry Christmas to you and everyone that passes this way...
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So, Aristotle was a Lesbian for a period of his life. I always knew it.
underrated comment
I didn't know lesbos existed in the ancient world too
@@kets4443 😂😂😂
Trying to show smartness through a dose of well known ignorance, well.
@@tham4378 ohh
These are great. Just stumbled onto your channel and watched for hours. Fantastic stuff.
Great presentation, please do more of Philosophers , thank you very much
6:16(Heavy Thanos Breathing)
Plato vs Aristotle invented the left vs right debate. And it still going strong.
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Simon, great as always!
You make history and biographies fascinating and enjoyable to follow.
*"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."* ~ Aristotle
@@YM-ow1jx Only after being unarmed. Unless you are talkign figuratively, then that is a whole different convo
@@YM-ow1jx Thats such a lazy argument that has been dunked on so many times before, and better than I have the words for. That’s a big “if” for starters. But also, Vietnam and Afghanistan is proof that farmers can easily stand against our military. I served in Afghan and know this first hand. Now imagine a populace as well armed and dug in as our citizens are. Plus there would be plenty of help from other countries who would attack a govt thats murdering its own citizens, if history is any proof. Basically, the quote stands true.
good thing i have two arms
Merry Christmas
Thanks Simon and company for this informative content. Merry Christmas to you all! 🎁🎄🎅🏻
Thank you for the upload! Aristotle so balanced and inquisitive, no wonder he was so formative... Merry Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
Same to you! Blessings!
Merry Christmas every one
Thanks Simon iv learnt a lot from the last 4 videos 📹 😀 👍🏻 😊 😄 🙂
Merry Christmas Simon and the rest of the Biographics team.
Happy Christmas Simon, great video, but you ought to take Christmas off! Happy Christmas to anyone else reading this comment
Liam Schnurr..thank you and Merry Christmas to you as well..
It really is mind boggling that we know so much about what happened over 2000 years ago.
Great video man! Keep it up and thank you
Really love your work, Simon. Could you please do one about the Iron Lady of Britain?
I forget which one said it, but one of the three said "Things shared by all are cherished by none." Those poor children in The Republic.
I love how the "Incredibles" movie paraphrased it with "if we are all special, then no one really is."
Please do one of Charles Bukowski, please!
You guys need a playlist for philosophers! It was so difficult to find as many philosophers as possible!
Great channel , Great presentation. Simon is a great presenter.
Any plans to do James Clerk Maxwell?
Archimedes next, please!
or Pythagoras
How about Herodotus?
Incredible! My favorite I've seen thus far! Please make a Biggraphic on Marcus Aurelius!
And his army the cranius menimus
Excellent Job
Its unfortunate people don't spend time on philosophy, they spend time on party politics which is ideology. Perhaps I should say Independent thought is what is lacking.
Joey Dyker precisely, conformity is the norm. perhaps if more started with philosophy they would begin to realize the whole political system a theatrics department that is playing them all for fools
Does anyone else sometimes see Simon as a canadian character from south park?! lol
What a great Christmas present: a biographic on my favorite philosopher. 🎄😊
Thank you for sharing 😊❤️👍
Happy Winter Solstice, the original keeper of the holidays.
Half the planet is 8n summer. So northern-centric of you!
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Heya Simon. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Great vid, great work. Your next vid should be about Alexander the Great!
People rag on Aristotle because he wasn’t right about everything, or because he doesn’t always conform to our modern moral norms. However, as someone fairly well versed in science, philosophy, etc., I would be hard pressed to think of a person who has done more for human knowledge and civilization than-dare I say it?-this great man. We’ve learned a few more facts since his time, some of which have proven his ideas wrong, but Aristotle showed us how to find them. May he be one with the Unmoved Mover, contemplating fascinating thoughts until the end of time. Thanks for the video! I really enjoyed it, despite perhaps being a tad unfair to Plato at times.
Its not just about modern moral norms. If he really did think of the Persians as I've heard, that they were less human than the Greeks and therefor should be conquered and enslaved like animals then he wasn't even capable of recognizing the greatness of the Persian Empire, or the city of Babylon for example and didn't learn from Socrates that intelligent men know what they are ignorant of, something Aristotle apparently didn't.
Archimedes at least invented and discovered useful knowledge, and served as inspiration to later scientists after the Renaissance.
Justin Martin there may be some historical examples of individuals that were more cosmopolitan in their thinking than Aristotle, but they are far and away the exception. And historical thinkers are rarely “better” across the board-Plato had a more modern attitude towards women, for example, but was no fan of democracy. Aristotle went so far as to argue for a pseudo-welfare state but thought people were naturally born to be slaves. Attitudes toward the Persians on the part of the Greeks is complicated, but I’m skeptical that they were simply written off as savages. They may have been seen as effeminate, or exoticized and portrayed as “anti-freedom,” etc., but many ancient Greeks admired the Persians (see Herodotus). As for Aristotle, I haven’t read any primary sources where he talks about them in any detail, so I can’t really say much. A little reading from the Bible, or many other works from the ancient world, will quickly dispel you of any illusions that historical civilizations thought about other cultures, the downtrodden, etc. anything like the way we do. You weren’t usually given much benefit of the doubt if you weren’t “one of them.” As far as practical achievements go, Aristotle made some groundbreaking discoveries in logic, biology, ethics and politics-the list could go on extensively. He was not perfect, and there are things I wish he hadn’t said, but I stand by my statement. Who’s to say you can’t simultaneously be great and flawed?
Aristotle covered so many areas of knowledge that is it hard to believe one man could do so much in 62 years. Yes, he had some wrong conclusions.
After watching the video I have bad feelings that as a Macedonian (they considered barbarian in Athens) Aristotle was a bit provincial and had to be more progmatic in real life than Plato, it might influenced his way of thinking.
Can I request Noam Chomsky?
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I would would have loved to have had you as my instructors. Cheers!
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*To cut it short: Aristotle was an upgraded version of Plato.*
*_Better, Faster, Stronger... Wiser._*
Thank you so much for this wonderful way too relate this story about Aristotle.and many other you make it fascinated
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Hey merry Xmas Simon your a legend