Aeschylus & Aristotle

Consider that Tragedy is a crossing of boundaries not meant to be crossed. Comedy is the conjunction of wisdom and power... Read more

Aristotle develops the ideas of potentiality and actuality. The Aristotilian way of looking at things has an Anthropolog... Read more

Explore Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and tragedy. The Prometheus theme is that he is immortal but made to suffer. He is a... Read more

Continue to explore Louise Cowan’s Essay. Consider that the Reformed vision of God is Epic. Mundis imaginalis is the wor... Read more

Explore Aristophanes’ The Clouds and consider that comedy is ribald. Aristophanes fully understood the entire Socratic e... Read more

In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book 6, he discusses intellectual virtues. Justice is the proper functioning of the hu... Read more

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book 2 concerns the doctrine of the mean. For Aristotle, virtue is a response to a passio... Read more

The four genres of literature are Epic, Lyric, Tragic and Comic. Aristotle defines tragedy as an "imitation of an actio... Read more

Why did Puritanism fail? Puritanism failed because it did not have the proper orientation of the soul. Consider that fai... Read more

This lecture continues to unpack the modes of Aristotle's Rhetoric. The aim of a political speech is to encourage people... Read more

Aristotle uses three main types of proof. His first proof is ethos. Ethos resides in the character of the speaker. As Ch... Read more

Aristotle explains there are only three types of proof available to the rhetorician. Argument is logos, character is eth... Read more

Rhetoric is the attempt to try and persuade people. Why do we use rhetoric? Aristotle teaches that even if your position... Read more

Ostracism is the democratic gesture to rid someone thought to have the power to become the tyrant. The middle class stab... Read more

A citizen participates in the political discourse of decision making. The regime of a monarchy is based on wisdom and an... Read more

Aristotle covers the grounds of friendships in Ethics Book 9. He teaches that it is our duty to stick by friends even if... Read more

Aristotle holds the view that the demos are the most vulgar. There are three choices of life which correspond to the thr... Read more

Aristotle answers the question, "What kind of life is the highest?" In Plato's Meno, the question is asked, "Can virtue ... Read more

This lecture continues the account of The Bacchae. Wine has the property of stopping suffering. A messenger brings the n... Read more

This lecture continues the conversation with Socrates. The advantage of philosophy to the city is that it teaches what i... Read more