Ep. 337: Aristotle on Primary Being (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one point |
| 0:11.0 | said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.2 | Our questions for episode 337 are what is the most fundamental kind of being and how can we |
| 0:19.6 | talk about it. |
| 0:20.6 | This is our third discussion of Aristotle's metaphysics. You might want to |
| 0:23.7 | rewind to episode 335 and start with that. Today we're discussing book 7 |
| 0:27.5 | aka Zeta. For more information please see partially examined life |
| 0:31.2 | com. This is Mark Linser Meyer being me in virtue of myself |
| 0:35.4 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Seth Paskin being in more than just one way |
| 0:40.6 | in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |
| 0:42.4 | This is West Allwyn, first in definition, but second in |
| 0:45.8 | knowledge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey trying to go from what is less |
| 0:51.4 | knowable to what is more knowable by nature in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:55.0 | Seth, are you saying that you go both ways, that you go both to the universal and to the individual? |
| 1:01.0 | No, what I'm saying is that I am in fact myself in myself as well as |
| 1:07.8 | having attributes. Okay, I mean as long as those attributes don't make you yourself as long as you recognize those are merely |
| 1:14.4 | incidental yes there's no claim of necessity in saying that I am being in many ways |
| 1:19.2 | you got your head or in your shoulders what rich fertile comic ground we have to deal with with our topic today? |
| 1:27.0 | It's Aristotle Bancer like that. |
| 1:29.0 | That has put us where we are on the map. |
| 1:33.0 | This was a longer book. |
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