Intro to Aristotle's Ethics | Lecture 1: The Good

Earliest manuscript telling Aristotle's tales: 1 THOUSAND 400 years after his death. Christ: 140 years just a few generations. Ponder THAT.

Philippians 4:8 The Hill School motto. Profound verse.

interesting book. Stoicism would be the next step unless it's not for a christian college

He had a speech impediment

Art - Technical Knowledge- craft - techne - making
Designed and executed according to skill and purpose
Inquiry - more than a question
Praxis - practice
Choice -picking between alternatives
Choice is at the center of building character
Greatest self help book ever written
Some good
Perceived good
1. I didn’t do it
2. I did it because of some good
Many good
Every time you make a choice, it places a mark on your soul, and it makes what you are
Some Good vs The Good
Goods are arranged in a heirarchy
Being at work
Ends - purposes- telos - telescope
Bridle making leading to victory
Highest good - pagan thought
Beatitude - Christian thought - seeing a complete and ultimate perfection
You start to learn to to look at the universe vertically
Things point up

Unfortunately in an often unjust world, character sometimes is instead, rather a hinderance. Life is complex.

Wow it's super beautiful 😍❤️

Yeah! Christian rests on and in Greco-Roman philosophy!

This is Stoicism at it's best💖💫👊🏽💪🏽

What's the name of the professor? He explains so well

What amazing insights..Thank You
Peace, Love, & Light Always

Sold State Metaphysics

O Sacrament most Holy,
O Sacrament Divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving,
Be every moment Thine!

What are the 10 categories in metaphysics?

These ten categories are substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, situation, condition, action, and passion.

Yeah, this is not a course on Aristotle himself or his ideas. This is a course on Aristotle as a hand puppet of Thomas Aquinas. Larry P. Amn is not a philosopher. He is a neoconservative, historian, college president and christian apologist. This video series is disingenuous as it is using Aristotle to promote a religious and political agenda which Aristotle was completely ignorant of by a man who is not a professional philosopher. Unlike Aristotle (as argued against in his Metaphysics) Amn is a dogmatist. Avoid.

Larry and those around him foster a vision that has and continues to turn around our country for the better. Hillsdale is doing amazing things. I hope to go there one day

He already fails to understand:

He says in any just situation!

Very naive to state in any just situation for life itself is unjust and its existence itself is unjust!

Spoken like someone that sits behind books in a university and has not experienced life!

No indeed has not experienced one jot or one tittle!

He also States that Aristotle States that every action is in some sense a desire for good!

Wrong!

A higher authority name Jesus Christ!

Stated: none are good no not even one.

Likewise our actions can only be a mard poor attempt at so-called good!

Am I the only one who became slightly embarrassed that he just expected these people to speak Greek? Extremely humbling,

Well, I love the idealism here, but it also makes me understand why Machiavelli so scandalized people in his time.
I'll just throw this out here and see if anyone is silly enough to consider it.
From to Aristotle to Freud and Jung, everyone was looking at morality as an external, fixed thing, but we have strong moral instincts, something no one pre-Darwin could really have appreciated. The idea is even resisted because Western Religion has always said that humans have no instincts... because it would mean that we are animals instead of divine. As a biologist I consider morality to be the union of moral instinct and moral teaching. That would mean that the reason we pursue good has a biological component that comes from evolution. Morality is how we decide right from wrong. According to a biologist then, right serves survival. It doesn't much change what Aristotle taught, but it does change the motivation. If you add in biological survival and moral instinct to your considerations of philosophy, it will open doors of understanding. You will see it in yourself and others. Then, if you do the same thing to your survival instinct, name it and recognize it, it will open another whole vista of understanding.
Just a thought...

I like what I'm hearing this is my first time on here I wouldn't say it's the greatest book ever is one of the greatest books there are some good books out there that talks about ethics

“Beautiful”, there are two Greek words describing this meaning. The first is “Oreo” which mean at the “right time”. The second is “omorfo” which mean at the “right shape”

Dude.... overall, i love your videos and your passion. Thanks for making me feel like i was part of the class . Not only you're a professor but also a very good teacher.

Good is a resource that furthers an individual’s goals for any given system.

What to do when there isn't a just situation

There is no good or ill, only thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare/ Hamlet

Thanks so much!
“You work, and depending upon your character, the good ones get promoted.”
😂
I would love to live in that world.

Very enlightening!

This is a fantastic class. Going through it for the second time.

WHAT ABOUT WHO WAS HERE FIRST THIS MAN IS A RACIST 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

The part where Larry said a great TV news report sounds like an oxymoron made me burst out laughing lol

This is one of the best talks I have ever heard about Aristotle. Thank your for this deep and absolutely stunning conversation

I love reading and teaching Aristotle, but I find doing so without engaging with and challenging his political and social elitism to be a great disservice to learning (and pretty much part and parcel of Hillsdale). Great class, though—no dark ones in sight!

I'm confused. Didn't the Pentateuch come before Aristotle? And isn't the point of the Bible to tell us how to live, how to become good? Why is a book by a pagan, no matter how well written, called the "first book written on how best to live" or "the best book ever written" when we have the Bible? This is an interesting lecture, but seems to be based on a wrong assumption.

The biggest scam ever against humanity continues being perpetrated by pure evil by the right wing religious zealots in the name greed and power

Bow Ring !

Title of the book please

How does their niche was stolen

Pero 7979

Can someone please mention which translation is being discussed?

Then why are we out to f*** each other
W Bush wrote that Bob B. would say, “ Governor I’m going to f*** you’’.
Did Bob lack education

This channel is the worst one. Aristotle is explained much better on every other channel. I do not recommend this college or channel. Horrible teaching. Imho.

I love these lectures and my inner youth would have loved to be at Hillsdale college.
Breaking down the words in each paragraph….

He says that a case of insanity would be to kill because loves it. This however doesn’t make the point he wanted to make, because in loving to kill he is aiming at that very good! The most extreme insanity and therefore most rare and to the point is to kill while not aiming at any good in so doing, but simply doing it because the killer didn’t want to do it, that is, a contradiction.

Character is ethos.

this feels so staged and unauthentic that i couldnt get into it at all. "morning, kiddies" was already a telling start for the vibe of this video. feels like the target audience is ten year olds.

I love how he thinks, but just because you have great character doesn't mean your going to get promoted. The bosses and higher ups have to also need to have great character. Do we need to mention our politicians.

Definition of good/bad
Breakdown to
A measurement of positive/negative waves from our mind.
The waves and vibrations don't lie.
The mind/body can.
Until we can measure that we will never truly understand the complexity of the truth of what's good/bad.
Light instruments can measure truth.

Get this in schools

Wondering when this was filmed. Because everyone is writing with pen and paper! Actually taking notes, when "notes" meant written on paper with a pen. Further, everyone has a glass of water. Aha! No bottles of spring water. Question: Are computers not allowed at Hillsdale? Or laptops? Is bottled water by spring water companies not allowed at Hillsdale? I'm curious about the 1970s style note-taking. That's when I was in university - I had notebooks full of notes.

I took this course and found it was very interesting. I love the quality of the presentation of the courses done online At Hillsdale. they make it so interesting and fun to learn. I Definity will take more courses from them in the future.