In part three of our study of Aristotle's Metaphysics, we finally get to the Metaphysics!

We begin with Book 6, which asks what kind of science we can use to find the causes and principles of being qua being, after which we begin Book 7.

In Book 7, Aristotle wants to establish what he means when he talks about being.

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This month the blokes talk about Herman Melville's classic whaling tale, Moby Dick.

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This month the blokes return to Aristotle.

Dimitri runs us through the rest of Aristotle's "Categories", laying out his thoughts about the categories themselves. We end with some initial thoughts about Aristotle's method, and how it fits into Dimitri's project.

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The blokes sit down this month to talk about their various experiences as writers.

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This month Dimitri begins his exposition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, although we don't begin there.

We need to begin first with Aristotle's Categories, a little book wherein the philosopher seeks to categorize (this is where that word comes from) every Thing.

This episode is a little short, because poor Scot was drugged up on pain killers, but we get a start in before Scot's higher reasoning faculties begin to shut down.

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This month Scot tells us the story of Crunncu and the Horse Maiden, an ancient Irish myth.

From there the conversation wanders from environmental anxiety to the function of art.

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The blokes sit down this month to discuss the philosophical questions, presuppositions, and goals that are animating us these days.

We return this month to Epictetus.

We discuss virtue, duty, and the complicated set of assumptions that inform our moral intuitions.

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This month the blokes talk about absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett.

Along with the obvious discussion of Beckett's work and its various insparations, we take some time to weigh in with our own thoughts about meaning and our relationship to it.

Who doesn't want to be happy, right? The desire for happiness has long been considered a constant and universal human experience, and a powerful ethical principle. But once we ask what happiness means, the universality evaporates and we find a quagmire of ethical conundrums.

This month, the blokes consider what Epictetus has to say about happiness and how to get it.