Fascinating stuff, Gregory. I have very little understanding of philosophy although I've touched on it in my studies of Christian apologetics and some stoic teachings. This is a wonderful resource deserving of far more views/likes and I thank you for the time and energy you've taken to bring this to us. Greetings from Scotland 👍

@GregoryBSadler

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy the videos. There’s always time if you want to begin fuller study of philosophy

@DG-mv6zw

7 ай бұрын

​@@GregoryBSadlerThanks so much for the encouragement, Gregory. Means a great deal.

This video helped clear up substance vs relation for me. I think of a shoulder as a thing, but Aristotle seems to think of a shoulder only as it relates to the substance, the shoulder of a human being. Kind of makes sense since the shoulder is only of use if the substance (human) is in existence, a shoulder by itself doesn't have much value. I found it interesting how action and passion are directly related to each other, and that state and passion may suffer a bit due to translation of Greek to English.

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

For Aristotle, a shoulder is a part of a whole

Category sounds like identity and entity to me. It makes me feel like each one is part of my existence. Position reminds me of chemical terms such as relative to isomers and orientation in reactions.

@GregoryBSadler

10 ай бұрын

Anything can sound like anything. I'd suggest just sticking with the text and avoid reading other stuff into it

Thanks for your videos

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Hello, sir. I just want to say that I am here because I am learning English and I need to improve my listening, but also I am here because I am interested in politics, where you should know basic facts about philosophy. Thanks for the video!

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Good stuff

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hi Professor Sadler, Would you place beloved (as a noun) in relation? Would soul be considered a substance or a condition? Thank you!

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

For Aristotle, the soul is the form of the body - you might read around in the De Anima for that one. Yes, "beloved" would be a relation - there's the one loving and the one beloved, and they're correlates of each other

@lacygreen9910

6 жыл бұрын

Got it. Thank you for clarifying! Really enjoying your videos, very much appreciated!

What does aristotle mean in saying to predicate?

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Right there in the video

Some of them could be combined, as a general concept or for the conjunctional use, nonetheless thank you for creating those videos.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

I'll be sure to pass your suggestion right on to Aristotle. . .

How is "goodness predicated of all these categories"?

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Read the Nicomachean Ethics

@chrome9879

3 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Thanks for getting back to me. Is that recommendation made because by the function argument all other goods for man subordinate to the final cause of eudaimonia/goodness? Or rather to get more acquainted with how he predicates throughout his central text?

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrome9879 Read it and find out

Ousia, as the substratum of contraries, is the essence as essence. It answers the question "what is it?". There is here no distinction between essence and being. Philosophies like some forms of Buddhism do not think there is any species (where species is the essence) other than a mental convenience. And while I should be careful, existentialists like Heidegger would argue (describe) the essence of being human as "nothing". Theologically (assuming Christianity) each of us is born in the image of God, and closest account of God's essence given in Exodus 3:14 in the self identification as "I am" .The being of essence in general ( as both expressed in hierarchically organized biological taxonomies and as the principle of concrete being) has both claims to justify or to refute the doctrine of essence as essence. Darwin is often cited as starting natural history, where, unlike the discrete and changeless species of the Greeks, species are mutable and some samples resist clear classification, indicating a skepticism regarding the reality of the species as species. The question of the reality of essence as essence has relevance to claims of logic, being and ultimately to truth. I have chosen a doorway into understanding ousia with more clearly and with greater detail by reexploring Aristotle's account, and Plotinus' criticism of that. I have learned that alternating between reading the text and viewing your videos creates a dialectic in interpreting the text, which I find leads to more persistence in pursuing the question and sometimes more insight .Thank you for being my companion ( whether you are aware of it or not) as I return to one of the most important questions of my life. What is the meaning of being?

@GregoryBSadler

8 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Where's chapter 3?

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't do it

What would be pure form as per Aristotle ,?? Is it GOD ????….can you clarify sir ?

@GregoryBSadler

17 күн бұрын

Zero need for me to. Find "pure form" in Aristotle's works

Why is understanding this concept important? All I know is that it is taught in some part of the world to understand reasonings in judicial materials

@GregoryBSadler

Жыл бұрын

Then Google it

I wonder if there exists a category Aristotle didn´ think of.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

The category of categories. . . . .

@Luisdefunes1

7 жыл бұрын

Something transcendent. I was thinking more of a new metaphysical feature in quantum mechanics or other new theory about the workings of the Universe.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

These are ways that things can be predicated. As a matter of fact, though, what are later on called the "transcendentals" (e.g. being, goodness) are found in all of the categories

@Luisdefunes1

7 жыл бұрын

I see... I didn´t realize that by using the word "transcendent" I was evoking the transcendentals (properties of being). I intended to say that your earlier response --the category of categories-- had a component of transcendence. This brings me to the possible category of mind or consciousness. And this can be linked to the idea of the physicist Nick Herbert, "consciousness is a pervasive process in nature". " Mind is as fundamental a component of the universe as elementary particles and forces. Mind can be detected by three features of quantum theory: randomness, thinglessness (objects acquire attributes only once they are observed) and interconnectedness", he said.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

No, transcendent and transcendentals aren't the same - I just happened to bring it up. And, the "category of categories" was just me joking around.