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Aristotle. The most influential thinker in history

25 October, 2024

The guest of this episode of Non-Artificial Intelligence podcast is the remarkable Aristotelian scholar and philosopher Artyom Yunusov.


Guest — Artyom Yunusov, PhD, Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator — Anton Kuznetsov, Ph.D., research associate at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University

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00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Why is Aristotle the most influential thinker in the history of mankind
08:02 - Negative influence of Aristotle. Teleology as the best explanation
20:41 - Aristotle is more loved by biologists and much less by physicists
23:23 - How Aristotle was lost in Europe, why he was preserved in the Arab world and how he came back
34:44 - A useful but erroneous juxtaposition of Plato and Aristotle
43:10 - Is there any great Aristotelian motivation?
46:54 - There is no key to all the doors
49:50 - Is Metaphysics the mistress of sciences for Aristotle? Or logic?
58:11 - Division of Sciences Aristotle and how Thomas Kuhn came up with the theory of scientific revolutions
01:00:45 - Inaccuracy in ethics and politics. Criticism of the Externalist history of philosophy
01:08:11 - The general method of Aristotle
01:11:55 - Why is the ethics of virtue ethics
01:13:55 - Ethics of virtue in modern philosophy and the crisis of moral philosophy
01:23:07 - What is virtue
01:25:38 - Types of virtues. Virtue as a necessary condition for happiness
01:34:54 - Why supporters of the ethics of virtue are in a hurry. The promotional nature of happiness
01:38:27 - The problem of moral principles. A good person as a criterion for doing the right thing
01:44:04 - The main problem of ethics of virtue and its popularity among modern philosophers
01:52:53 - How Aristotle's philosophy allows us to say that moral responsibility is real
02:00:59 - Why did Aristotle become the most important philosopher of the Middle Ages?
02:08:32 - The naturalistic concept of Aristotle's soul in Christian representations
02:15:10 - Riddles of Aristotle's philosophy for modern researchers
02:30:18 - On the progress in the study of Aristotle
02:42:47 - How to draw the line between inventing and researching Aristotle
02:45:22 - What is the importance of Aristotle's politics? Normative Political Science versus Descriptive
02:54:51 - What about the second part of Poetics? Poetics as a guide
02:59:51 - Is Aristotle's philosophy a system?
03:01:00 – Where the guest agrees and disagrees with Aristotle. The form, not the content
03:06:35 - The correct translation of Metaphysics. Not to be confused!

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