Aristotle: From Logic to Life

In our introductory lecture, we examine Aristotle’s foundational role in Western philosophy, exploring his life, historical context, and wide-ranging...

In lecture two, we explore Aristotle’s groundbreaking work in logic, focusing on the Organon, which formalized human reasoning and shaped logical thou...

In lecture three, we turn to Aristotle’s metaphysics, focusing on “being as being” and the question of why anything exists at all. We explore his theo...

In lecture four, we study Aristotle's ethics, focusing on his concept of eudaimonia (human flourishing) as the highest good, achieved through the acti...

In lecture five, we investigate Aristotle’s Politics, focusing on his view that humans are “political animals” who achieve flourishing within a politi...

In lecture six, we consider Aristotle’s Poetics, focusing on his theory of mimesis (artistic representation) and his defense of poetry—especially trag...

In lecture seven, we witness Aristotle’s enduring impact on Western thought, tracing how his works were lost to Europe for centuries before their dram...

In our eighth and final lecture, we explore Aristotle’s powerful influence on 20th- and 21st-century philosophy, highlighting his “revenge” against lo...