HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Ar...

A royal scholar and philosopher sets aside the tribulations of her family to debate Descartes over the relation between mind and body and the nature of happiness. 

Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue. 

Descartes’ Meditations caused controversy as soon as it appeared. In this episode we look at criticisms including the “Cartesian Circle,” and how Descartes answered them. 

On this episode of the podcast, we continue learning about Aristotle, a man who created the first system of biological classification, the first system of logic, and the first formal scientific method. We find out why Aristotle was anti-women and pro-slavery, and learn how Plato ... Show More

On Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1 (aka Alpha) (ca. 340 BCE). What constitutes a basic explanation of the universe? We talk about how mere practical knowledge of how things in fact work is not enough; there's greater wisdom in knowing the theoretical underpinnings. Various philos ... Show More

Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out one or most of these made a mistake. This includes a critique of Platonic forms, which as eternal, unchanging patterns can't actua ... Show More

Continuing for our third session on Aristotle's Metaphysics, now covering Book 7 (Zeta). What exactly is the type of being that is the chief reason why we call anything being? Aristotle says its the substantial form present in an individual animal or plant. Get more at partiallye ... Show More

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on what happiness means and how to live a good life. Aristotle (384-322BC) explored these almost two and a half thousand years ago in what became known as his Nicomachean Ethics. His audience then were the elite in Athens as, he a ... Show More

البشر مهتمة ليس فقط بماهية الأشياء، لكن كيف من الممكن ان تكون الاشياء. و بالضرورة أصبحوا مشغولين عبر العصور بكيف تتصل الأشياء ببعضها ولماذا؟ بدراسة الاحتمالات، والاستنباط مما نعرف على ما لا نعرف! .. عندما نستدل على حتمية موت انسان لان حتمية الفناء عامة لكل البشر، هو انتقال من الم ... Show More

أى نظرية عامة للمنطق الأستنتاجي لابد وأن تحقق هدفين: الأول، تفسير العلاقات بين المقدمات والنتيجة داخل الحُجة. والثاني تقديم طرق وأدوات للتفريق ما بين الاستنتاج الصالح و الغير صالح. وفي الواقع هناك منظومتين فقط في تاريخ علم المنطق حاولتا التعامل مع هذين الهدفين، وهما منظومة المنطق ... Show More

المنطق الغير رسمي او الغير صورى تأسس كفرع بحثي مستقل في أواخر السبعينيات على يد كلا من المنطقي الكندي الامريكي المعاصر رالف جونسون و المنطقي الكندي جون أنتوني بلير ونشرهم كتابهم الشهير الدفاع عن النفس المنطقي سنة 1977. هذا المبحث ركز على مبادئ المنطق والفكر المنطقي خارج الإطار ال ... Show More

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Continuing on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book 7 (Zeta), on essences and what sorts of things have them. Contrasting with Plato, Aristotle believes that some changing, visible things have forms. How do they get them? Well, they're received from some previous thing that has a compara ... Show More