Hello and welcome to our second reading of 50 Shades of Grey. Just kidding, this is the

Pansidecast episode two, where we will be focusing on Aristotle's basic philosophies.

These basic philosophies have been chosen specifically to support those studying OCR's A level,

namely the earlier section of the topic philosophy of religion.

Born in Macedonia, Aristotle lived between the years of 384 and 32 BC. In his 62 years, he became one of the most influential

people to ever live. Tutor of Alexander the Great, Italian poet Dante named him Master of Those Who Know.

Aristotle's work with Dominate Western thought for over a thousand years

and influenced scientists and philosophers to this very day.

In the 20 years between 367 and 347 BC, Aristotle was in fact a student of Plato at the Academy.

Upon Plato's death in 347 BC, Aristotle was in fact a student of Plato at the Academy. Upon Plato's death in 347 BC, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted the emphasis of his philosophical

method to empiricism from Plato's Platonic rationalism. Many of these books are compilations

of Aristotle's lecture notes and we'll be looking at three of them today.

The Nicomachian Ethics, presumably named after Aristotle's son, Nicomachus, as it's presumed to be edited by him after Aristotle passed away.

We'll be looking at book 1, chapters 2 and 6 of the Nicomachian ethics, the metaphysics, meta meaning

before, i.e. the abstraction from physics, book 5, chapter 2, and physics, book 2, chapter 3.

You can find all of these at the bottom of the page as we're using Aristotle's works, translated

by W.D. Ross, which includes all of Aristotle's works.

You should also grab yourself a copy of Wilkinson and Campbell's AS Philosophy of Religion

for a good introduction on this, and there's a link to the Amazon page which can be found down

below. It's quite an old book, and you can pick it up quite cheap. As before, we're looking

for as much feedback as possible, so please respond both positively,

negatively, negatively, just let us know that you are there.

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