My children (teens) have conversations like this at the dinner table. If more of us participated with our children on these levels, imagine how the world of the future may turn into.

@vicmartinez3711

4 жыл бұрын

I tried to engage my children in that manner but their mother (whose father tried to do the same with his children) always steered them to the discussion of the mundane and banal realities of teenage life. I tried but I did not succeed.

@TheDoctor1225

4 жыл бұрын

@@vicmartinez3711 If I may, let me encourage you to not give up. Like your wife, mine is not one to take an interest in things like this, but I have found ways to work these principles (in conjunction with our Christian faith and ethics) into conversations with my sons and have been successful. Encourage them at every opportunity, introduce it to them and most of all, live it in front of them and let them know why you do what you do. You may never see it, but I believe that it will stay with them.

@andrew_owens7680

4 жыл бұрын

I don't like Aristotle. He is too damned sure of himself. Ignoramuses that thought they were as smart as Aristotle destroyed Western civilization for a millennium.

@andrew_owens7680

4 жыл бұрын

@joe jitsu People who aren't as smart as they believe themselves to be often favor some pop version of Aristotle- Ayn Rand, Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris. These are all people who make statements of certainty about what is good, what is politics, what is science. Aristotle is certainly worth studying and is indeed one of the most influential people in modern thought. That is why, later in life, I've come to study him. I believe, like Nietzsche, he has been misappropriated.

@judystafford9048

2 жыл бұрын

@@vicmartinez3711 Why did you "choose" to marry someone who is not on the "same page" with you? Your life and the life of your children is made harder by your wife's sabatoge. Maybe encourage and challenge her to grow intellectually? Life is more than the physical. We become what we think about or do not think about.

"...whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things." - Philippians 4:8

@advocatefortruthlibertyand5803

11 ай бұрын

That's right long before there was Aristotle.

@johnowens5342

10 ай бұрын

​@advocatefortruthlibertyand5803 he died 322 BC Fil.4:8 is still true but your dates are off

@HM-vj5ll

8 ай бұрын

God breathed.

@adellahansenolson7328

5 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮one day

@arizonacolour8793

5 ай бұрын

​@@advocatefortruthlibertyand5803except it's from a fictional book

Every time you make a choice it places a mark on your soul…..Can’t imagine a more thought-inspiring quote than that

I hope these young people appreciate this time in their lives! What a blessing!

@charleswest6372

Жыл бұрын

Hope they study this especially-!!

Once I started to study Oriental philosophy, tactics and strategy I came across Myamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, and on the back cover it said: "when Musashi speaks Wallstreet listens!" That scared me! No more Mr. NICEGUY! We are moving towards a cold hard, heartless way of doing business and interaction among ourselves. If we don't teach character building along the lines of Aristotle and then the Judeo-Christian style where trust and honor, fairness and mercy is shown then all we are left is cold blooded pragmatism!

"Beautiful is the highest form of good" an answer I never thought I needed.

@bryanutility9609

2 ай бұрын

But what’s good? They never really say anything

As a lifelong student of Aristotle in my native Hellenic language -and my only mentor in philosophy- I could attest that the American youth are surely missing logic and critical thinking by not being taught Aristotle. Cancel culture is anathema to humanity! KUDOS to Hillsdale for educating the youth!!!

@philliphayden2727

2 жыл бұрын

A few of us olds were educated properly. Along with 5 years of Latin (!?!) I was instilled with linked curriculums in math, science, English and history that all related to each other. We didn't specifically have logic or philosophy classes, but the concepts were built in.

@gormenfreeman499

Жыл бұрын

I'd say the first sentence of this book is straight on point. Nobody wakes up saying I'm going to commit evil today. All evil in the world is done in the name of good. This should be taught to people, its important for critical thinking.

@mikeymacaque

8 ай бұрын

Do you think Aristotle got canceled? 😂

These are the sort of conversations I expected to have in college. I was not so fortunate

@alfredhitchcock45

7 ай бұрын

Yeah me too my philo prof was absent all the time

I am a recent Hillsdale alumnus, now attending grad school elsewhere, but - as with most Hillsdale alumni - still deeply enamored of my alma mater. I'm happy to answer any questions if anyone is curious about the college, the curriculum, or student life!

There comes a point in everyone’s career where one must choose between doing what is right and what is easy. I have always chosen what is right ... and a few times my career suffered for it. But I still get texts and calls from people I worked with 10+ years ago to my most recent job and they all say the same thing: I was an great inspiration to them. That I changed their lives for the better. And to please hire them at my next job. There are times when it has been painful to be passed over for the promotion or not getting a certain job. But as I get older it’s of great comfort to know I have made a positive difference in 1000s of people’s lives and never compromised my ethics.

@adeelali8417

Жыл бұрын

Love this. As someone who is in the start of his career, I want to leave behind some sort of legacy with those I work with. I want to be someone who is principled.

Love this teaching makes me long for youth and to go to this Hillsdale College all my grandkids should be sitting right there! God bless each young person and professor at the university!

My words cannot say enough how I think about this course from my heart. Thank you.

I’ve watched this video a dozen times or more today and I can’t stop taking notes on this 20 minutes

This was absolutely fabulous. Than you Dr. Arnn.

To say I am deeply grateful for this great teaching to be publicly available to us is the very minimum. Back at my university years we were made to read all the great philosophers, but never had a chance to discuss and interact with a professor in such a way. I always imagined this way of studying and teaching. Now almost at 40, I was brought back to these timeless books and philosophers due to my MBA studies and the particular module called: Tackling Global-Local Challenges in Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability. Thank you for your invaluable wisdom and knowledge shared with us.

@libertycoffeehouse3944

7 ай бұрын

Responsibility and sustainability is socialist indoctrination. It is be pushed by corporate America.

This is going to be an interesting journey

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Love this. Hope all those students feel the power they’re gaining. School these days is sadly garbage. What wonderful school and great privilege we have to get a tiny bit of what students experience everyday. Also, much credit to the parents that send their kids to this school. GOD bless the school, professors, students, parents, and everyone watching. The future seems bright with this students. 🙏🏾🙏🏾💯💯

Im a nanosecond in AND HOLY SMOKES WHAT AN AMAZING TEACHER

I like the humility of the girl who knew Greek the whole time and was letting other people have a chance to answer

Amen. May these videos be ever present within our hearts. Thanks for teaching important core principles to our youth.

I said some words and ended up in court and what I was reaching for was success and connection. Nothing more. Before the 3 year court process, I had never made an improper legal action. I had been striving my whole life to be a person of noble character and to do what was just, right and fair. Hm, loving this discussion. All was dismissed in the end, but my words choices I took full responsibility for left a wake of destruction in my life. In the end, I drew back to God and apologized to God for the two worst things in the words: sinning against God and hurting myself.

@SisterShirley

2 жыл бұрын

After such a compelling comment, I really would like to know what you said.

@Sunsets330

2 жыл бұрын

Ty for sharing. I'm on a similiar journey.

@bryanutility9609

2 жыл бұрын

You can’t always be honest. Lying in self defense is justified. Let us know what happened please. 🙏

Great content from a great college. Thanks for sharing this.

Excellent video ! Hillsdale is currently offering an online course on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and I have signed up for it...

I like this style of lecture and how it's laid out physically. Idky, but it reminds of the Last Supper. Gives me vibes of how Aristotle would have taught

thank you for this video.

Impressive work, I don't get how a stupid music video have more views that this, no wonder we lost our ethical value as a society in general. Thank you for the content, from a small country Guatemala!

@claraueltschi409

5 жыл бұрын

from bolivia

@DanielBowens

2 жыл бұрын

I get your comment is two years old, but I find your comment counter productive and a little bit ironic especially considering the topic that is being covered here.

I’m so addicted. What an amazing college.

Thank you dear Hillsdale college, instructor and fabulous students.

Aristotle is one of the greatest philosophers/thinkers in recorded human history! This video was very wel made and I would like to watch the entire series

Great class, can’t wait for the next video

Have to thank Mark Liven for turning us on to Hillsdale College!

“Let us again return to the good we are seeking, and ask what it can be. It seems different in different actions and arts; it is different in medicine, in strategy, and in the other arts likewise. What then is the good of each? Surely that for whose sake everything else is done. In medicine this is health, in strategy victory, in architecture a house, in any other sphere something else, and in every action and pursuit the end; for it is for the sake of this that all men do whatever else they do. Therefore, if there is an end for all that we do, this will be the good achievable by action, and if there are more than one, these will be the goods achievable by action.” Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics; Book I. Section 7.

@sowhardhrai2451

2 жыл бұрын

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Splendid video. Can't wait to see more.

I enjoyed immensely, saw this after viewing Constitition 101 lesson 1, free online course,worth a donation and i am canadian. The course is perfectly setup for all who want to invest in knowing what steers their soul and the importance of bringing significance in ones life , refraining of bathing in victimhood. '' Know thyself '' Thales Mahalo !

@im4m4a_ru63

Жыл бұрын

That’s right keep funding this evil beast

I started reading the Ethics with a book group that came together after watching John Vervaeke's lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis." I think this book is already changing my life.

Nichomachean ethics. A great book. Taught much of this in my classes.

This is one of the best talks I have ever heard about Aristotle. Thank your for this deep and absolutely stunning conversation

Me: 15+ minutes on one sentence, I want to learn from this man... Wise Man: ...we spent 6 weeks on that one sentence. Me: Did that just happen?

@andrew_owens7680

4 жыл бұрын

Well we spent 60 years. Never got to the second sentence.

@rangatempest

3 жыл бұрын

@Surfing with Aristotle This is true, and it is not about all discussion. It's about the actions that the agent ought to do. Wisdom is futile if never applied.

This is unnervingly well-shot for a class lol

@danielhickmott5800

2 жыл бұрын

Aristotle's point...excellence in all we do.

happy doesnt mean pleasures. pleasures can be good or harmful. depending on character.

@andrewmccullough559

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn't say happy equates to pleasure -- that is a view Aristotle explicitly rejects. The goodness or harmfulness of pleasure depends more on its object. So, for example, moderate pleasure in a good thing, like food, is good. Pleasure in a bad thing, like the suffering of others, is bad.

Listening to Hillsdale college is incredible and a great source of information

@marioknowsitsgod1506

4 жыл бұрын

Constatine XI P. Yes A great source of information for white people black or anything other than white is not considered Citizen by law

@Siel-bm7gx

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is. I wish i learned this in highschool.

It is pure joy to listen to Hillsdale courses. Your voice and ideas brings light and freshness to our murky present 🙏❤️

Thank you so much. You very concisely made your point. This was very helpful.

Gotta love the dig at public TV at 10:15 (hah hah hah)

Wonderful!

thank you for making and sharing this.

I'M SPARKED: How would this discussion go down with the Torah or the Bible covering specifically the 10 Commandments?

Thank you Sir for this exceptional introduction and analysis of Nichomachean Ethics. With your teaching you make a vast contribution to the Good in the world. I wish I was one of your students in that privileged class!

What amazing insights..Thank You Peace, Love, & Light Always

_the clearest introduction to Aristotle was written by Jacob Klein, founder of St John's University. You will find it in his Lectures and Essays book. this is the man who single-handedly opened up the world of ancient Greek learning._ _I find the current teacher's bedside manner aslant_ _thanks for the upload_

@SisterShirley

2 жыл бұрын

The 'teacher' is none other than the Distinguished Dr Larry Arnn President of the Great Hillsdale College I'm curious, in your opinion, in which way or ways does the Dr's teaching appear to lean?

Although it may sound like something juvenile, there is a book that I own and appreciate more each time I re-read it that uses superhero archetypes to introduce the different types of ethical systems. The book is called "The Virtues of Captain America," and I would definitely recommend it as a companion - NOT as a replacement by any means - to this course and the others. It's a good way, I have found, to introduce these ideas to people who may not be familiar with them by using more familiar imagery and thereby pique their interest.

Thank you so much for producing rhis video! I have been try8ng to wrap my mind around an Aristotilian proof for the existence of God and this was helpful. God bless you and your ministry.

@paulrevere2379

2 жыл бұрын

"The body has no fear of eternal consequences." - John Calvin All other animals have bodies, just like we do, but they have no soul and no fear or thoughts regarding eternity. They live in the present and when they die they will simply be gone. Some people live only in a type of present, living only for the good of their mortal life, but when they die, they will not be ended; they will be judged.

It is really good to learn from your discussion. Thanks All....!

Dude.... overall, i love your videos and your passion. Thanks for making me feel like i was part of the class . Not only you're a professor but also a very good teacher.

Excellent introduction in two the characteristic of human behaviour ✒

This is a fantastic class. Going through it for the second time.

Outstanding… love it

The female readers voice is pleasant. It reminds me of my wife voice when we were young.

Art - Technical Knowledge- craft - techne - making Designed and executed according to skill and purpose Inquiry - more than a question Praxis - practice Choice -picking between alternatives Choice is at the center of building character Greatest self help book ever written Some good Perceived good 1. I didn’t do it 2. I did it because of some good Many good Every time you make a choice, it places a mark on your soul, and it makes what you are Some Good vs The Good Goods are arranged in a heirarchy Being at work Ends - purposes- telos - telescope Bridle making leading to victory Highest good - pagan thought Beatitude - Christian thought - seeing a complete and ultimate perfection You start to learn to to look at the universe vertically Things point up

What a great learning environment. Very informative and thought provoking. I was reminded of the shooting of the Viet Cong prisoner by Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan being an example of a murder that wasn't all it appeared to be.

To: 31 “How best to live“ What do you mean by that? How best for just you to live? How best for you and your family to live? How best for you ,your family and the community to live? This is why we need people like Jordan Peterson who break these things down and dive into the assumptions and presuppositions .

@dom3n1koo

4 жыл бұрын

What

This was incredible

I like how the professor explained what they read, I wish he was my professor

thanks for sharing.

Don't give me reparations. Give me a scholarship to Hillsdale and don't short me. I want enough to take me through the doctoral program. 💗💗💗

@gezefreitas

Жыл бұрын

Congrats for your way of thinking

@ChinetaDavis-ud8zn

Жыл бұрын

Reparations are owed to descendants of American Freedmen. If I want to buy a Hillsdale education I will be free to or I may want to buy it from another institution. Free will and time is what Repair, Restitution, Reparations consist of and will allow me to buy.

Good is a resource that furthers an individual’s goals for any given system.

I love these lectures and my inner youth would have loved to be at Hillsdale college. Breaking down the words in each paragraph….

Very enlightening!

Philippians 4:8 The Hill School motto. Profound verse.

This is an excellent subject🤗🤗

Nice!

Larry Arn is a brilliant communicator.

This is Stoicism at it's best💖💫👊🏽💪🏽

Thanks so much! “You work, and depending upon your character, the good ones get promoted.” 😂 I would love to live in that world.

At this moment i'm reading The Nichomachean ethics by Aristotle and i listen to Ralph Vaughn Williams Sinfonia Antarctica for inspiration.

I love how diversity is expressed.

Thank you. ❤ this

Thanks for sharing

These are beautiful looking young people in this class! One would have to already have a beautiful spirit to even arrive at this very class, and that at Hillsdale College. I want to send my children there!

Thank you so much Learn alot

You are not what you think you are, but what you Think, You ARE! Your choices make you!

"The good ones get promoted," he says, regarding the inpact of ethics. I haven't seen that. Instead, the most compliant, soulless bean counters get promoted.

@raymondfrye5017

3 жыл бұрын

Reality versus Illusion

@danielhickmott5800

2 жыл бұрын

2:50 - Caveat: In any just situation.

Wow it's super beautiful 😍❤️

all of our actions are directed at some good... all them are direct at the Good. good comes in hierachy.

"The first person you have to lead and discipline is yourself." Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore

It seems to me that one's character and virtue are related to one's "way of being" in the world. For example, being insecure can be a way of being that someone has, such that they are a defensive upset waiting to happen. I've been that! And we've probably all seen people like that. Likewise with virtues like courage and honesty. If we have them as a way of being, they are constantly ready to manifest given the right circumstances. This makes me wonder about the connection between character (as conceived by Aristotle) and Heidegger's concept(s) of dasein and mood.

@andrewmccullough559

2 жыл бұрын

That is an interesting question, although 'character' and 'mood', in its colloquial sense, are not that similar (I am not familiar with Heidegger's 'dasein'). Mood is precisely that which is more emotional in nature and can change a few times in one day. I am not especially moody but today alone I had at least two big mood swings. Temperament is more stable than mood, like a property of the person from their birth and emerging in early experience, but still falls short of character in that it deals with very general tendencies. For example, a melancholic or depressive is very general. Each temperament has strengths and weaknesses, but all are compatible with good character if they can be corralled and utilized for good. Character, per its etymology as something like a deep mark in us, does not change so readily as mood, although it can and should improve over time. It is no wonder to me, in an age dominated by sentimentality and the emotional saturation of subjective experience, that character is talked about so little. You say the word now and nobody knows what to think. And yet character is precisely that deep tendency in us to act for the good, even in spite of an unhelpful mood.

Every choice I make from moment to moment makes a mark on my character.

So much, then, makes it plain that the intermediate state in all things to be praised, but that we must incline sometimes towards the excess, sometimes towards the deficiency; for so shall we most easily hit the mean and what is right. Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics; Book II. Section 9.

I like what I'm hearing this is my first time on here I wouldn't say it's the greatest book ever is one of the greatest books there are some good books out there that talks about ethics

"But people of superior refinement and of active discipline identify happiness with honour; for this is, roughly speaking, the end of the political life. But it seems too superficial to be what we are looking for, since it is thought to depend on those who bestow honour rather than on him who receives it, but the good we divine to be something of one's own and not easily taken from one." Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics; Book I. Section 5.

Ethics is a response and performance of individual to the good base on the good itself that endowed in the soul of every man or woman created

You are not free to choose but choosing can make you free.

22:30 Contrasting and unifying the "Earth as the center" view with "we are at the bottom" view is interesting. A link to the referenced work by Lewis is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discarded_Image

One key to my philosophy is the ethics of manskills. A Manskill has three elements. 1 - It requires Thought 2 - It demands Effort 3 - It produces some Good Manskills are rooted in man being made in the image of his creator. We cannot fully understand what it means to be made in God's image while in this mortal and time constrained realm which we live in, but we can do a great deal with whatever little knowledge we can discover on the topic. It is evident that God set man apart from the rest of creation and one profound, possibly critical, aspect of that was God putting into man a devine spark or sacred fire which is a reflection of God's own character. This sacred fire is clearly seen and possibly never more beautifully seen in man's ability to create. No other creatures have this ability. I would contend that not even the angels truely have it. The exercise of man's creative ability can be idealistically summarized as manskills.

@paulrevere2379

2 жыл бұрын

It is important to note, because we live in a fallen world, that the ability to do good, to glorify God aright, to exercise upright dominion and good stewardship has all been perverted. The natural man (man's new fallen nature) is not to do good from upright motive although a man might do great good, motive notwithstanding. No one who knows the basic condition of man should be surprised by any of man's resistance to doing genuine good, his cruelty to fellow men, or his perversions against his better nature. The surprise rather is that unregenerate men demonstrate any restraint of cruelty at all, such that they even appear to endeavor to do great good things at times. This is God's mercy, for while men have utterly forsaken to worship God, God has not utterly forsaken man.

thanks from Burma

Humanism at its best.

“Beautiful”, there are two Greek words describing this meaning. The first is “Oreo” which mean at the “right time”. The second is “omorfo” which mean at the “right shape”

"That moral excellence, then is concerned with the pleasant and the painful is clear. But since the character, being as its name something that grows by habit - -consider, then, character to be this, viz. a quality in accordance with governing reason belonging to the irrational part of the soul which is yet able to obey the reason.” Aristotle; Eudemian Ethics; Book II. Section 2.

Also not all things aim at being good, many times someone’s ideas and actions contradict another person’s and if they both aim at mutually exclusive things and one is bad then they can’t both be aiming at some good.

@remalm3670

4 жыл бұрын

... and they call that "evil" and is a matter of personal 'choice' ...

@feartheghus

4 жыл бұрын

R E Malm are you trying to say morality is subjective or what?

@remalm3670

4 жыл бұрын

@@feartheghus ... Morality is supposed to be objective; however, Man makes it subjective to his own; individual 'good' to his own benefit. Morality is supposed to be the guide and source of law; hence, justice and everyone equally subject... ( and Adam and Eve took of the fruit and ate. Then they knew {defining} good and evil) ... It's been down hill ever since ...

@feartheghus

4 жыл бұрын

R E Malm you never said what made objective morality subjective. Man can try to think gravity works differently than it does, doesn’t change gravity. There’s an objective truth and then there’s how close to the objective truth you are, you don’t vote on the objective truth, you vote on where you think it is.

@remalm3670

4 жыл бұрын

@@feartheghus ... To answer the first question, objective to subjective. Just as in the case of gravity, there is; what is moral. Subjectivity is man applying or modifying the objective morality to match his needs, desires or desired out come and then to add another dimension, situational. Morality is decided from situation to situation not using an objective standard of what is moral. People that believe in a Creator usually place the entity as responsible for defining that objective standard of morality ...

I love reading and teaching Aristotle, but I find doing so without engaging with and challenging his political and social elitism to be a great disservice to learning (and pretty much part and parcel of Hillsdale). Great class, though-no dark ones in sight!