Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 9 of a common issue that arises with relationships or friendships: how to address the demands upon oneself that come with multiple friendships.

Who should we give priority to, if we find ourselves not able to fulfill all of our obligations or the expectations out upon us? Should we, for example, ransom the person who ransomed us? Or our father? Should we focus more on newer friendships or on older ones? Aristotle provides guidelines for dealing with these sorts of issues.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 that compares political regimes politeia) with various configurations of households and families oikoi).

The relationships within the household can be understood analogously to various types of rule, or power structures found in the varied types of political structures. These include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, democracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 bearing upon how and why friendships of various sorts break down over time.

Friendships based upon virtue or moral excellence tend to be much more enduring and resilient than friendships that are based primarily upon pleasure or usefulness.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about the question about whether bad people can be friends. His answer is that they certainly can be friends with others, including other bad people, in some sense, but not in the primary sense of friendship. And, the friendships of the bad will often be less lasting, more challenged and stressed, than those of other people.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 of the question whether one person can indeed have many friends or not.

The answer, for Aristotle, depends on what sense of "friendship" we mean. If we mean the primary and highest sense, a friendship based on virtue or moral goodness, his answer is no. But if we mean friendships based on pleasure or usefulness, the answer is yes -- and he thinks that we ought to work to have and enjoy many such friendships.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about how friendship and affection function within the context of relationships in the family, the household, and in marriage

Common examples are when one person is getting pleasure out of the relationship, but the other is getting some merely useful good - or when one person is friends with the other on account of the virtuous character of the other, but can only provide a useful good or pleasure to the other person. These are important types of friendship, and Aristotle discusses what is required to provide a kind equalization or proportionality to them.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about "unequal friendships", that is, relationships in which the members of the relationship are not deriving or motivated by the same good.

Common examples are when one person is getting pleasure out of the relationship, but the other is getting some merely useful good - or when one person is friends with the other on account of the virtuous character of the other, but can only provide a useful good or pleasure to the other person. These are important types of friendship, and Aristotle discusses what is required to provide a kind equalization or proportionality to them.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about the most paradigmatic but also least common form of friendship (philia) - that oriented by virtue or moral excellence (arete) on the parts of the friends in the relationship.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about the type of friendship (philia, in Greek), that is based upon pleasure (to hedon) - either pleasure derived from the other person in some way, or pleasure that is shared in by the members of the friendship.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 8 about one particular kind of "friendship" (philia in Greek), those that are relationships based on "utility", "benefit", or "usefulness - to sumpheron in Greek.

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