14 min • 3 lectures
This three-part series examines Aristotle's intellectual legacy. Lecture 1 covers his shift from Plato's abstract Forms to empirical observation, introducing the Organon and syllogism as tools for classifying the observable world. Lecture 2 explains the Four Causes—material, formal, efficient, and final—along with teleology, the idea that everything in nature strives toward its inherent purpose. Lecture 3 applies these principles to human conduct through the Nicomachean Ethics, defining eudaimonia as flourishing achieved by practicing virtue at the Golden Mean between extremes. The course shows how Aristotle's logic, metaphysics, and ethics form the foundation of Western thought and remain relevant to modern science and psychology.
