Aristotle's Philosophy - Martha Nussbaum & Bryan Magee (1987) 

Yes, this is a reupload. I wanted a version with higher audio quality. I’ll still leave the previous video up, but as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!

Bryan's intros are a lesson on communication... tremendous

She is now 77 years and going strong.

Martha Nussbaum kicks ass! What a mind?! Then and now! Thank you so much!

Why can't we have TV programming as deep as this today? Now, it would be a trendy young academic, parading round the ruins of Athens to a booming soundtrack, giving us patronizing soundbites and making inappropriate comparisons between Aristotle and figures from today's pop culture, with dramatized inserts.

These interviews are real gems 😍

Thank you for this marvellous video ❤

I thought Diane worked at Cheers full time. Who knew she was also faculty at Brown?

Brilliant❤

I am a 47 year old Greek, and 90% of all the things i know about my ancestors of that time, came from English, American, and German people.

it would be hilarious to see Aristotle's simultaneously reacting to the fact that a) he's still extremely relevant 3000 years later, and that b) his work can be studied by women

I find Aristotle's ideas in ethics most appealing and relevant in shaping the world we live in today.

when reading Aritotle, his words fixes the very evaluating principles we use to assess what we are reading. one doesnt wanna say no to aristotle, or he'd sooner or later regret it. Aristotle is completely perfect.

Aristotle sees all particular things as real. The dried leaves on the ground, each snowflake, even the flies that bug you, all particulars are true reality as opposed to Plato's ideas where there is an idea or archetype of a fly, and all specific flies are shadows of their real form.

What a mind! Both of them.

By Nature every man desires to know, Being qua being.

11:05 ‘…’nous’ is a kind of insight we get into the explanatory role - the fundamental status of a principle - by our experience in using it - to give scientific explanations…’ - gawd help us!

She kinda looks like vintage Sean Young, which I'm not upset about.

It's all systems. What a thing does and how it does it determines its essence. However, I think it's still important to recognize that the specific kind of matter making up that system is also essential to its functioning. And ultimately, all atoms of matter are made up of the same building blocks, meaning there is a fundamental neutral emptiness to everything, and that essence is only created by the functioning of many indistinguishable atoma of matter in different ways with one another.

This lady is so smart wtf

❤❤

This interview took place 37 years ago, in 1987.

30:40 on souls and life and forms

Are there not contemporary professors to comment on this topic, we would love to listen.

After watching this, read Durant.

I’m only missing a BR

Can someone clear up Aristotle stance on equity vs equality? She starts to touch on it at the end while disputing his politics. Is she saying that his ideals of politics and equity aren't *reconcilable* because of his views on women, foreigners or slaves? As Aristotle is in favor of *equity when it comes to justice*, but favors male citizenship in this principle???

Is she reading a script? She keeps looking down. Just wondering?

Nussbaum, the only female philosopher in the series.

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So this is what American women were like before Ticktock

I wanna pet that dawwg

Round and round and round, but getting nowhere!

Bryan Magee isn't brown at all.🤣

The greatest philosopher that never existed.

5 min in, just bla bla… all that matters is how to act.

Women and philosophy don't go together. Sorry