Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 1 - Introduction to Philosophy
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In this lecture from my Fall 2011 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we discuss the first part of Aristotle's Metaphysics bk. 1, ranging from the human desire for knowledge, the development of the arts and sciences, the nature of metaphysics, and the four causes
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When someone like Prof Gregory B. Sadler teaches, you can really see the love of teaching. Thanks for the upload. -A curious humen.
Ah, thank you very much for this! I'm a homeschooled student who would like to continue learning about philosophy in college... I've been reading a variety of classic philosophy books for a year now and it's amazing to see you discuss so many of them in your class as well. Thanks again!
Thank you for taking the time to upload these videos - I really appreciate them.
Fantastic video, Mr. Sadler. Your teaching style is exemplary - you come off as very laid back, engaging, informative, and prepared. I like the manner in which you bring things around to play in with your overarching point - I could tell you had some end in view whenever you went off one what seemed like a tangent.
I love watching your videos. You are a great teacher. Thanks for what you do!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoy the videos
You're very welcome. In this class, there'll be more metaphysics coming in the next several months -- Anselm's Proslogion, some of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, and Descartes' Meditations
Such a great introduction to metaphysics! I'm a history major and want to learn as much as I can about the human condition. Studying these lectures is most certainly going to help me. Thank you for posting your lectures.
You're welcome. Glad the videos are useful for you
Superb! I start metaphysics in 2 weeks, so it's a great introduction/preparation (along with the rest of your videos).
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge to a wider community.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoy the videos. I've got quite a few on Aristotle, in a playlist
@dimasass my older flip-cams unfortunately sometimes cut out before the class session finished
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I suppose that teaching style is a product of several different things.
One is having read and thought about the material for a long time - decades now, actually. That helps with having the requisite knowledge
Another is having a lot of time put in "down in the trenches", teaching Core classes to non-majors. That helps with reaching the audience
The third is actually having a tendency myself to veer off into digressions - and knowing I need to stay on point!
Thanks very much! I have to admit that it took a number of years teaching to learn how to connect well with students -- to create a bridge between them and the texts/thinkers
Thanks for this video! With the pandemic, my teacher isn't doing lectures, so I'm very glad I could find your channel!
Glad they're helpful for you!
I like your teaching style.I wish I had teachers like you.
The great philosophers would smile at your teachings carry on
Thanks for putting these videos up!
I wouldn't doubt it -- pretty fun over here as well
Thank goodness for great teachers! I was totally lost before watching this video, and extremely frustrated.
Could you make a link to the handout you gave the class?
@sjmcculloch You're very welcome. Good luck with the metaphysics study -- one of the most difficult, but rewarding, areas of philosophy
Well, thanks for the compliment about the teaching.
As to the students and the paper, keep in mind that the camera is located right in the middle of them, so the mike is picking up any noises they make very easily. Also, this is an Intro class, attended by Freshmen right out of high school, most of whom have only heard a little bit about Philosophy back in their World History or Literature classes. So, I can't presume any great level of interest or even familiarity on their part
I chanced upon your video yesterday, and I am so grateful to you Gregory (which happens to be my brother's name too, lol). Anyway, I am fresh student of [Catholic] Theology, and this semester, I am tackling Philosophy. Your video is so very helpful to me.
Glad it was useful. I've got about 400 or so more over in my channel
Yep, the earlier videos we hadn't started boosting the volume. Sounds good enough on my computer. I'd try watching it on that
great video!!!! you are a fantastic teacher!
Thanks for the suggestion.
Glad to hear the video was useful for you
Thanks. No, I haven't done anything on the relation between soul and body in Aquinas. Down the line, I'm thinking of putting together a set systematically working through Thomas
I am signed up to teach two Ethics courses for Marist next semester -- which is very likely, unless a full-time position elsewhere comes along (very unlikely)
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm starting University soon and I've been feeling a little nervous, hope I get a great teacher like you.
graduate yet?
this comment was 6 years ago so assume you already did XD
@TinsmanTV You're welcome. BTW, I asked my students, and they agreed with the Penn comparison
Sir, I'm wondering whether rotten meat and meat differ in formal cause or in material cause? They both are meat (assuming they are both from the same animal). But their structure is different, so I think they should differ in formal cause, is that correct? And do smell and color included into consideration of structure difference? i.e: the color of the meat 1 is green since it is rotten, but the color of the meat 2 is still red ( fresh). And maybe meat 1 stinks, it smells differently from meat 2. Thanks!
thanks for the great class, but why do you cut it of before the end?
Thanks! I share a few of those as my favorites
Very generous of you to allow us into your tutorial. And what an imaginative way to broach to neophytes the intellectual pursuit that ultimately overarches all human endeavours -- including mathematics. 'What is being?'
I am sorry (failure is all mine) I don't know much about your work in philosophy, but having by chance come across this on YTube, it confirmed to me once again how rich in philosophical trends are the States (I'm posting from the UK). No disrespect to our academic philosophers here, but it's only in the States you can find such starkly differing philosophers -- from, say, W.V.Quine to Hubert Dreyfus; from Richard Rorty to Stanley Rosen; from Stanley Cavell to John Deely; from Albert Borgman to Saul Kripke and on and on one can go with this. OK we don't have, here in the UK, even a quarter, so to speak, of the number of universities there're in the States. Still, I'm not sure such rich variety is only down to the number of higher education institutions.
I digress...thank you for posting this.
All the best.
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. I suppose we probably do have more different viewpoints expressed in the US, but in the areas I work, I can't think of any where there aren't some excellent British scholars as well
Gregory B. Sadler
Maybe I'm a living proof of, 'the grass always looks greener on the other side' :).
More seriously though, and I agree with you there, I don't for a minute denigrate the scholarship and contribution of UK academic philosophers. I suppose, I was suggesting that the rich variety you have on your scene is not as apparent here. On the UK scene, to trend upon the ordinary language philosophy analysis more or less... or indeed to take a 'scientistic', mathematised view of what philosophy should be doing, you are really going to be one of the many. Or even if you're one of the those who is inspired by the winds blowing from the continent, you are still not going to feel that isolated here, for at least the last 25-30 years. But where are, for instance, Iris Murdoch's, Alistair MacIntyre's or Mary Midgley's heirs and successors to a greater or lesser proximity to them on the British scene? This's what I find striking about the US scene -- by the way, haven't even mentioned Thomism in the US and Canada just to enhance even more that variety.
That's why I think in the UK we could do with a little less of plain old vanilla...the sheer number of universities you have there certainly helps...
Thanks for your reply..
Yes, I suspect that the biggest factor is just the sheer number of schools we have -- and the fact that they're not really part of any well-integrated system.
Yep -- that's its real final cause. Not to say there can't be all sorts of other ends that it serves (e.g. keeping 10-24 year olds off the streets, off the unemployment rolls, for instance) -- but those are, as Aristotle would call them, more "accidental" ends
Glad the video tipped the scales for you!
I'm a Philosophy major at Stetson University right now, I just cant get enough of it haha :)
All very interesting questions -- what's the connection with Aristotle's Metaphysics?
Great lecture.
You're very welcome! I'd say, when it comes to teachers, shop around -- ask others who the good teachers are and who one ought to avoid
That's great! I still can't get enough myself.
Yep, that's right. Although, I don't play it an awful lot in that class session.
on a serious note, he does give a great lecture
Yes, there's surprisingly much more to it than one would think at first -- it seems like it should be very straightforward, but turns out not to be!
Thank you very much!
55:19 we're way to familiar with viruses now🤣 for real though, thanks for putting this up, ive been getting into Aristotle, starting with his Nicomachean ethics, and im now tackling metaphysics and categories
You're very welcome!
I like watching your videos. I'm going to lecture on Aristotle's Metaphysics book 1. I wish I could lecture on it as well as you do so...
Well. . . I've been at this for quite a long time. I look a bit younger than I actually am!
You're very welcome
thanks for the lecture
You're welcome!
Well, the customers of the business -- or if the business is already established, and one takes it over -- might also have something to say about that
You look so much like my philosophy lecturer back in University. Don't take this personally but without the belly everything else is exactly like him even your ponytail. I really enjoyed his classes too.
+Marilyn Hall Well, he and I are following the secret manual for instructor's looks. Good to know he's stuck with it
I want to take your class! Are you still teaching next semester?
I accept that this may not be your area of expertise given the fact that your an American academic based in America however I am a student in the cold and often very rainy North East of England and are having to come to decide which A-Levels to study during sixth form. As Philosophy interests me as a subject to study at university I was wondering if you, or indeed anyone could point me in the right direction as to which subjects to study to prepare me for degree level study of philosophy. Your help is much appreciated. Many Thank. Amazing videos. Very Useful
since when did the guy from Penn and teller start teaching?
I subbed thanks alot for this.
Thanks very much!
it could have been that i was listening 2 this lecture on my phone but it was hard 2 hear. other then that i think it was cool that u would post this vid thanxs
Great lecture again! Thanks!
I laughed out loud at this: “Cinderella’s sisters cut their heels off so they can fit into the glass slipper. Grimm's world is a lot bloodier; in some ways it’s more fitting.”
You're very welcome!
what was the German book he was holding at the end? grim's adventures?
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Then it must have been an apocryphal story -- who knows, perhaps she lived on Ramen, or something else similarly cheap. Or perhaps she boiled the hell out of the potatoes each time.
What was the major point about metaphysics the digression was involved in?
Thanks!
Yep, and sometimes longer
Looks interesting
Nice to read!
Thank you very much.
You're welcome!
you are like the Walter White of philosophy. You should be teaching at universities!
Hi Professor do you know what school has a good philosophy program at affordable price? I found that North West are the best. I'm an average student (grades) with an unhappy mind. I'm from Texas and I'm looking for a good school. can you orient me a little?
I do not. I've been out of grad school for ever a decade. That's an area you'll want to start doing some research into on your own
I have, but a question came out, is it the school or the student the knowledge producers?
The best schools are near NY, but I'm here at Texas with no more resources that my brain. I think I have found my answer.
Thanks professor.
@TinsmanTV When the magic gig just wasn't paying the bills! -- funny, used to be the comments were that The Dude is teaching. Now it's Penn. . .
Well, not bad at all. . . . Different part of the Metaphysics they're depicting (in negative) in that video
Answering some of those points would be the proverbial "fish in a barrel", so I'll leave that to some of the other viewers/commenters
I heard unpainted walls and immediately thought of Faner. Good to know there are (or at least were) jobs for Carbondale graduates.
1. This is exactly what I need, I’m a philosophy major and this gives me a leg up during class discussions.
2. Is there a pet in the class room? I keep hearing an animal
2. Look at the date on the video. How would I remember that?
Well, he did lean back occasionally against the blackboard, to relieve the stress :-)
Dang. I thought this video started sloooowly but before all that long it became rich, richer and richer.
Glad you enjoyed it. It's got to start slow -- this is Freshmen, practically right off the bus, in their first real contact with a classic work in metaphysics. . . something for which their K-12 education definitely did not ready them
Professor, what are your thoughts on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Do you find it to be a convincing and important piece of philosophical inquiry? Certainly its implications for potentiality and actuality, perfecting Plato's forms, and lastly positing the existence of a first mover in the world are ground breaking discoveries within the philosophical realm, but what do you actually think of Aristotle's analysis. Also, are you a Thomist Philosopher?
I'm not a Thomist, no, though I do think that Thomas has quite a bit right, and I do very much enjoy reading and teaching him. So, Aristotle's Metaphysics. . . . I think it's pretty good. Parts are particularly brilliant.
+Gregory B. Sadler Hi Gregory i am halfway through aristotle's work, what a mind he was. he laid down the entire foundation of science millenia before the age of enlightenment. (well him plato euclid and among others). but anyway do you have any recommendation for my next reading, someone who has pushed even further the aristotelian doctrine, mainly the categories of being and the metaphysical treatise? hope to hear from ya back good night!
Well, if you want to stick with those who at using Aristotle as basis for their thought - at least part of it, there's three main ways you could go next.
You could start looking into ancient commenters on Aristotle, like Alexander of Aphrodisius
Or, you could head over to Neoplatonist authors who typically used Aristotle for understanding the world of change.
Or you can read medieval scholastics who are engaging Aristotle.
+Gregory B. Sadler interesting, i believe i'll skip the early commentators as aristotle himself will give me enough food for thought; but concerning the neoplatonists i have found plotinus and porphyry so far, are you acquainted with those?
the core problem i have right now is one of logic; it is hard enough to find the truth, and aristotle's manner of going from the universal to the particular struck me as remarkable. that's what i'm going to be looking for in other thinkers, kant also i believe made use of the prior and posterior analyses to frame his thought system. he made a systematic use of a cluster of terms which he showed the relations in very syllogistic ways.
in my searches for knowledge aristotle and kant have been gems and i wonder where are the others, my personal preference is with those who make a strict use of logic to demonstrate their points.
of the medieval thinkers i have found avicenna so far, any others?
finally, what is your stance on the mind-body problem? are you a realist, a dualist or an idealist?
Lots of questions.
I'm not a fan of philosophers myself who try to cram reasoning into the formal syllogism (which is only one of the things Aristotle meant by "syllogismos" in his works) -- but if you go for that sort of thing, you'll find plenty of thinkers who will fit the bill for that -- you'll just have to search some and read around.
Yes, I'm acquainted with Plotinus and Porphyry.
I don't really take stances as such on what get called "problems" like "the mind-body problem". Not really the way I do or study Philosophy. Be aware, as well, that terms like "realist" or "dualist" tend to mean a lot of different things, once you start looking at the senses in which they've been used, historically.
Could also be considered an introduction into the Austrian Theory of Economics.
Possibly, though definitely not intended for that. . . just Aristotle. Anything else is gravy
- I find it interesting at 2:40 in this video, so many students weren't already prepared with a simple piece of paper.
- Sounds like a bunch of animals for a good 30 seconds.
- Impossible that many students aren't taking Philosophy seriously.
- Great teaching though, defiantly has sincere interest in the students futures.
thank you!
You're welcome
Thanks!
You're welcome
Maintenant je suis convaincu, je vais faire de la philosophie à l'université ! :)
Yes, it was quite a place, wasn't it? Jobs? Well. . . sometimes there are, but often not particularly good ones, unfortunately
+Gregory B. Sad great... can u ans my question that is ... does philosophy challenge the reality? yes or no Why?
You are asking two questions. I'll answer the first - Yes.
Gregory B. Sadler... how and why?
That's a longer conversation - if that's what you're looking for, here's my tutorials page - reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/
Ok thank u
Nice to read. Unfortunate that you were getting lost in Aristotle's text -- bad teacher? or, difficult translation?
It's a great text, but it's not much consolation to tell students -- who don't usually have
Greek -- that it's a somewhat easier read in the original sometimes, than in certain of the stuffy English translations!
You love philosophy and Kevin Steen? Good man.
Any words of wisdom for an aspiring professor? Would you choose any other field? Is it fulfilling?
I've done a video about that. You'll find it in my Personal Talks playlist
I`m in the university studying philosophy,and this is so useful.Keep doing this excelent job :D
Bon! Ca me rend heureux de lire
I assume that's a good thing!
Watch some of the other videos -- you'll see it off
Well, it's to give you the "whole college classroom experience".
i would say language is one piece of technology humans need to live
I suppose. It's stretching the sense of "technology" a bit far to call language as such "technology". We certainly do need it to live a human existence
Gregory B. Sadler He probably meant computer languages, java...
no i mean the first time someone developed patterns of vocal or written communication. in my opinion, it is the first true novel "discipline"
Not in the cooking meth way, right? hahahah!
I actually have taught previously at universities -- BSU, FSU, Purdue-Calumet -- but gave up a full time gig to move north, in order to be with my (now) wife. Still adjuncting at present -- but I do give quite a few talks here and there, including university settings
But isn't Methaphysics like Philosphy for the Lazy?
I'm sure that Metahphysics, whatever that is, probably is.
You could answer the question you're probably asking by reading some classical metaphysical texts
A Gentalman, scholar and model instructor.
Thanks!
@JESSExERA Students get sick, and come to class
I'm that guy. A Baby Boomer divorced in my golden years of my career. Funded 401 ,my daughters in university.
No one I know socially would know Solon, King Cresses , the story of Telis the happiest man Wise solon ever knew, (example of the sort or esoteric knowledge) your in parting to the class. The beginning of the Polis the beginning of who we are.. Greek Tragedy! Then Hobbes ,Locke, ,the philosophers who our constitution is based on. The beginning .Groovy in the vernacular of my generation
LOL; I’m all for eating meat but I see no good in abusing the animal. If mankind values life, then men should have respect and appreciation for that which keeps them alive. Taking a 4000 level course in Aristotle in the fall I’m sure these videos will be useful (as always); thanks again for posting these.
Ok -- you go ahead and keep on thinking "business is really about love, truth and creativity". Aristotle and everyone else must be dead-wrong, because your experience is different.
here in india philosophy was fun
I want to know Metaphysics. Your class if full of plebeians!
My class is full of non-major freshmen.