The Life and Times of Aristotle, and How His Philosophy Conquered the World—Lantern Jack from the Ancient Greece Declassified Podcast

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🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Whether you have a BA in philosophy or have never read a book, your daily life is impacted by Aristotle. Have you ever tried to win an argument? Have you ever tried to solve a riddle? Have you tried to rationalize eating twelve doughnuts? Congratulations: you are engaging in logic, the bread-and-butter of the most impactful philosopher in history.

In this episode I talk with Lantern Jack (pseudonym of the host of Ancient Greece Declassified and graduate student in philosophy at Princeton). We get into 4th century BCE Greece, the life of Aristotle, his tutoring of Alexander the Great, and how his philosophy conquered the world.

But it's more than the life of Aristotle. Thanks to archaeology and modern scholarship, we now know more about the ancient world than we ever did before. However, the average person today doesn't have access to free, reliable, up-to-date information about ancient Greece. Unlike other fields, the Classics have remained largely confined to the ivory tower of academia. Thats why Lantern Jack started his show. The idea is to declassify the classics and help everyone know about the ideas that kicked off the modern world.

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1:02.8	Welcome to the history unplugged podcast. The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,
1:09.4	Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.
1:16.0	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:19.0	In this episode, we're going to get Aristotelian. That is a $10 word right there that if it's
1:29.2	already causing your Isaac Lays over, don't worry. You do Aristotelian things all the time.
1:34.5	That is the philosophy derived by Aristotle. And if you've engaged in any sort of logic whatsoever,
1:40.7	you are directly influenced by perhaps the most influential philosopher of all time. For example,
1:45.8	when people don't brush their teeth, their teeth fall out, you use logical syllogisms all the time,
1:50.7	whether good or for bad. I eat a pound of chunky monkey ice cream today. I feel bad,
1:56.4	therefore eating a pound of ice cream is bad. Therefore, just by using the ductive powers of
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