Aristotle Core Concept Videos

These are shorter, more closely focused videos (10-30 minutes long), each of which is focused on one key idea in a philosophical thinker's text.  This list will be constantly growing for the next several years -- so check in every once in a while to see new material I've added.

Aristotle, Categories

Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1

• Philosophy's Origin in Wonder
• Experience, Art, and Science
• Metaphysics and the Four Causes
• Accounts Based on Material Causes
• Accounts Introducing Efficient Causes
• Plato's Metaphysics of Form
• Criticisms of Plato's Forms

Aristotle, Politics book 1

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1

• Activities, Arts, and Purposes
• Happiness and the Function of a Human Being 
• What is Happiness?

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 2

• Virtue as the Mean
• Virtue as Habitual Disposition

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 3 

• Ignorance and the Involuntary
• Compulsion and the Involuntary
• The Virtue of Courage
• The Virtue of Temperance

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 4

• The Virtue of Mildness or Good Temper
• Virtue of Magnificence
• Virtue of Generosity
• Virtue of Magnanimity
• Virtue of Right Ambition 
• Virtue of Friendliness
• Virtue of Truthfulness
• Virtue of Good Humor (or Wit) 

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 5

• Aristotle on 6 Types of Justice
• Unjust Actions vs. Injustice as a Vice
• Legal Justice
• Justice as Complete Virtue
• (Particular) Justice in Distribution
• (Particular) Rectificatory Justice
• (Particular) Justice as Reciprocity
• Justice as Equity
• Can One Do Injustice To Oneself?

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 7

• Six Moral States or Conditions
• Akrasia or Lack of Self-Control

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 8

• What is Friendship? 
• Three Types of Friendship

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