Plato and Aristotle: Crash Course History of Science #3 

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"Only Aristotle wrote more than Plato" Euclid: *laughs in the Elements*

Aristotle was pretty smart, but it’s crazy that it took 2000 years for someone (Galileo) to actually test his laws of Physics to see if they really worked.

Looks like Plato’s giving Aristotle a haircut in the thumbnail. Probably using Occam’s razor.

This idea of the atoms (and molecules) having different shapes is remarkably accurate, as we can see in crystallization. The ice crystal for example, is shaped that way because of the shape of the H2O molecule and the way they fit/bond together.

I too have a vegitative soul

"Like a giant set of D&D dice." NERD! Seriously, that made my day.

5:43 so Plato created the Infinity Stones?

I’ve read that most of Aristotle’s surviving works were not actually written down by him. Instead they’re lecture notes taken by his students and organized by topic.

Aristotle, a philosopher so great that during the Middle Ages they only needed to say the Philosopher and everyone knew about which one they were talking, Thomas Aquinas called him the great teacher.

Here’s a book recommendation to accompany this lesson: “The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization” by Arthur L. Herman. The book discusses the differences in the thinking of the two philosophers, and then traces their respective schools of thought through the ensuing history. Sometimes it’s tempting to think disciplines like philosophy, science, and history exist in separate silos, but they all influence each other. In other news: The plush Hanklerfish I ordered (like the one in the background set, only purple) arrived in the mail today, much to the confusion of my cat. DFTBA!

These graphics and animations are so cute! I appreciate all the work that must go into these videos

Thankyou for talking about Socrates, that dude needs way more recognition among common people

I am both a Platonist and an Aristotlean, they both were great thinkers.

HEY! YOU GOT YOUR SCIENCE IN MY PHILOSOPHY!

I've been watching your channel for years. The fact that ya'll are dropping DnD references makes me love you all sooo much more.

enjoying them so far . Thank you to the animators. I absolutely love their work. And of course thank you for the availability to study outside school.

This series is literally the course I took last semester, and I wish i had it back then..

"Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed; Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed" ~Monty Python

Considering everything about Platonism and Aristotlism -- and even the Socrates' work -- I like Plato's brutal definition of all life and that everything changes so you can't trust your preconcieved ideas about the world , and I also like Aristotles confidence in the senses and experience in learning and understand the universe -- But I really can't decide who I like the most...

I'm not a platist, I use bowls

amazing combo of great info and beautiful visuals

"After Alexander died young, Aristotle went back to Athens..." This is incorrect. Aristotle had founded the Lyceum in Athens over a decade prior to Alexander dying in 323 BC. In fact, Alexander dying caused Aristotle to flee Athens due to growing anti-Macedonian sentiment.

Really great episode, thanks !

Learning a lot of history through this series

Have been way out of the loop with Crash Course for a while and just stumbled onto this little gem of a video. Loved it, time to start catching up on some stuff. Keep up the great work guys!

I see the message “This video is unavailable on this device” on both iPhone and Apple TV. Could you please lift that restriction?

I love this channel. Thank you.

This is the best Crash Course series in a while!

I love this theme, tanks

Loved the video! ❤️

thank you so much for your videos! you are a wonderful genius god bless your soul

What a genius each of these!every one should learn their thoughtd

This is extremely helpful

noice!

It would be cool to have some book recommendations for every video or series

Thank you!

I really appreciate the incorporation of Thought Bubble in these videos.

Ur such a great lecturer. U made difficult things easier to understand

Don't you kinda need both? There are kinda 2 tracks to a good theory. A) Math it then check against reality B) Notice something, Math it, then check it against reality. You kinda need both to truly understand.

My new favorite crash course.

Great video!

I got distracted at the beginning by the fact that Hank has WALL-E on his desk.

amazing!!! please do crash course Geological history, or just geology/palaeontology with a in depth timeline

Plato and Aristotle contributed immensely to the development of philosophy

If Plato was able to visit modern world, and learned that Tensor Calculus builds Relativity which explains how planets and stars behave, and that Schroedinger’s equation explains matter behavior, he would have shouted A-HA!!!

Your channel is awesome!!

Meh. Why choose when you can have it all? I'm an Aristotlean-Socrato-Platonist :P

Enjoyed video.

Im a grad student and I still get more from crash course than I do assigned readings

One thing is for certain: The ancient Greek philosophers had way too much time on their hands...

Im so glad you all learned how to color correct in your later videos.

Thanks

Thanks!

*Interesting Fact* Aristotle's relationship with Alexander the Great served him well as he would eventually have Alexander use his influence to gather tons of plant and animal species for Aristotle to examine. If it weren't for this aid, he wouldn't have made nearly as many important observations as he did, although maybe he would have had more time to strengthen his moral writings :P

Amazing, the best in a nutshell summary of classic western philosophy/science I've ever come across. Two points you good folks might find interesting/infuriating: *Note Aristotle describes our reality via our natural senses best of all (really least worst of all). Current hard-science describes our reality via our modern measurement instruments. Thus our reality is highly dependent on what/how we measure it with (ex: einstein's relativity & quantum mechanics). *Note hard-science works most independent of our state-of-mind (ex: most independent of our beliefs-of, disbeliefs-of, indifference-to, & ignorance-of our state-of-mind ; aka empiric). Wise folks value our states-of-mind (ex: desires, dreads, bliss, agony, etc) much more than any hard-science. Thus hard-science is best used as no-more than another means/tool towards our desires or away-from our dreads whether than vice versa (counter ex: nazi scientism).

loved it

wow i love hank green

4:14 .You mean: "Ruling over more area than anyone... Except of cause the Mongols"

Please someone make those D&D dice for me!

Educational!

Teşekkürler.

His student playdough. Huh? Dammit brain.

Shrek is my favourite anime

I am a Socratic. I believe that both should be balanced like Popper said. I believe the unexamined life is not worth living.

I learned that Aristotle’s “writings” come from his students’ notes, not directly from him.

I actually have the 5 platonic solids in form.of dice :D

I actually laughed out loud when he said 'warm and wet BABIES'

I have fallen in love with philosophy after these videos! Amazing, thank you from all my heart!

I'd say I'm more of a Diogenetic. My favorite form of genetics!

9:34 TRIPARTIDE SOUL!!!! From your philosophy course!

This is my absolute favorite CrashCourse series, and I have watched most of them.

This is awesome! Keep them coming please :-) As a high school philosophy teacher with a Masters in the History and Philosophy of Science, I find these accurate, informative, and entertaining...not to mention vitally important to the education of future STEM types. Thanks!!

I love how John says Aristotle was a 100 % wrong a 100% of the time and refers to him as his old nemesis in his literature course on Oedipus , while hank tho recognising his faults does sorta love him.

One can be both an idealist and empiricist. George Berkeley would be a famous example.

Now I want a "five elements" dice set...

This video isn’t working for me on any device right now!

This guy has saved my GPA!!!

Aristotle and Plato will do what good teachers do, they'll educate your heart and your mind and wake you up from that dream of sloth

these men were on one long trip

I like the way you talk

It's interesting that Hank seems to think Aristotle was more of a common sense philosopher, even though anyone who has read Plato and Aristotle knows that Plato's dialogues are much better written and more easily digestible because Plato often writes in the guise of the Socratic style and because Aristotle only intended his works to be read as lecture notes to his students. However, if one considers Platonic idealism in the context of the Pareminedian and Pythagorean trends in Greek philosophy, particularly with regard to mathematics and the concept of "the one," then one can easily argue that while Aristotle's empirical observations on natural philosophy are now out of touch with reality, Plato's theories are much more relevant to, let's say, binary systems by which computer programs classify and distinguish things by a series of zeros and ones that express something within the context of a programming language. If we agree with Plato and Parmenides that reality is essentially an expression of being that is one, and can be expressed as one, whereas some form of non-reality or absence is something that is-not, and therefore can be represented with a zero, even though zero simply signifies the concept of nothingness or privation, then when we think about binary systems that attempt to represents real things through a code of zeros and ones in a particular order that has meaning, we will realize that anything could theoretically be represented in binary code depending on how its zeros and ones are arranged in a code that expresses the being of that thing accurately. People try to dismiss Plato's idealism, often because they have not comprehensively read Plato's works, and thus have not had the opportunity to experience how Plato's work was not merely idealistic in the sense of anti-pragmatism, but often expressed a desire for systematic knowledge of things so that people can have more knowledge about good and bad and be able to justify themselves to others. When one reads Plato's work and appreciates it, one sees how comprehensive his work actually was, and can get beyond the charge of idealism that is used by materialists to ad-hominem attack opponents who don't accept their harsh reduction of reality to physical matter. If we overcome this conceited materialism, we will be better able to do what was at the heart of Socratic and Platonic philosophy; inquiry into one's self, one's being, and concious examination of one's life.

we need crash course astrophysics!!

Philosophy!!!!!

i have a test on these two philosopher's alone and it just so happened crash course uploaded a video on it 12 hrs earlier, papa bless

Can’t they have something like geology? I love to see Hank talk Science and history but let’s get some rocks up in here

* Realising the word 'Socratic Seminar' comes from Socrates and asking questions * My mind: *Blown*

I think there is a fourth answer. (The Mongol Answer XP) As a consciousness we can only perceive (senses/Aristotle) and rationalize (mathematics/Plato) but we know that both are fallible and "inperceivable". Our senses can hallucinate, be deceived, and sometimes we just can't comprehend what it is we are seeing (or mis-comprehend). As for mathematics, while it is purely logical, it is also a human construct, there is no actual object that is one since all objects are atoms bouncing off each other, and it is just the coincidence that it takes a long time for atoms of similar densities to separate that causes the illusion of "oneness", on top of which all humans flaws are baked into our comprehension of mathematics, for example we "know" that there is at least another dimension of mathematics that we are currently only see the ripples of (hence we have "imaginary" number units (i)) So rather than going with either having our mathematics reflect our senses, or our senses reflect our mathematics, or even worse do what Socrates was quasi suggesting and debate about a perfect universe not perceivable and inconceivable, but rather recognize the symbiotic reality of our senses and rationality that both are influenced and influence the other and construct an evolving resource of experiments and conjecture to try and correlate our entire senses and rationalizations.

I legit thought you were saying Play-Doh instead of Plato, so it sounded like "Play-Doh has a big impact on thinking of thinking"

Crash course Philosophy 2.0. Yeah!

What happened to John Green? I miss his rants about the mongols

I love Plato

Down to the essential place, it's called[ put dramatic drumroll here] ENTROPY!

Yay! Moar please!

Im so glad you are looking at india as well. I was worried this was going to be reeeeeally eurocentric. Im excited 😊

bruh i never knew these two guys had fandom names :/

My faith follows them all, it isn’t always one or the other...

i agree a lot more with aristotle. he actually made sense. although his thoughts and ideas were very raw but that is understandable. plato makes no sense (he does but not nearly as much as aristotle)

MATH i f*cking love it!!

I wonder if someone like Aristotle were born today, and had a decently high level of opportunity, whether they would still be brilliant and discover new things. Or whether if they were born today they would just be average. Part of what makes me wonder this is that I have had original thoughts, that at certain points in history would be considered brilliant. I suspect everyone has. But would I ever have had those thoughts if I didn't have some elements of foundational knowledge that exist now because of these greats? The answer is probably no. Weird thing to think about though. I can't think of an objective way to test this sort of thing.