Video And Podcast Resources on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics books 6, 7 & 10
a farrago of important topics in Aristotle's moral theory
I have previously published three other resource posts with links to video and podcast lectures on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, a text that I teach very often within a variety of my classes. It is one of the very first texts I taught (not well back then!) when I first started teaching my own classes back in graduate school, and I expect I’ll probably continue teaching it for at least several more decades. (We’ll see how long I keep getting hired back to lead new generations of students through classic philosophical texts, thinkers, and topics.)
It’s time to wrap up these resource posts by providing links to the lectures on the three books of the Nicomachean Ethics I haven’t done that for yet. There is less thematic unity to these three bundled together than with the previous entries. We have:
book 6, which deals with ways we human beings seek truth, the relationship between the higher and lower parts of the soul, and the intellectual virtues
book 7, which discusses important moral states that are neither virtues nor vices, like self-control, loss of self-control, & brutality, and some topics concerned with pleasure
book 10, which looks at whether the contemplative life is better than the active life, more important aspects of pleasures and amusements, and the role of education
So here you have 31 core concept lecture videos and 31 corresponding podcast episodes that can lead you through all of the key topics contained in these three books. If you’d like to study Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, whether for the very first time as a beginner, or going back to it to deepen your understanding, I hope that these lecture videos and podcast episodes prove useful for you.
Book 6
Truth In Theory And Action | watch video | listen to podcast
Desire, Intellect, And Action | watch video | listen to podcast
Intellectual Virtues And Parts Of The Soul | watch video | listen to podcast
Scientific Knowledge (Epistēmē) | watch video | listen to podcast
Intellect or Understanding (Nous) | watch video | listen to podcast
Wisdom (Sophia) | watch video | listen to podcast
Skill or Craft (Techne) | watch video | listen to podcast
Prudence or Practical Wisdom (Phronēsis) | watch video | listen to podcast
Wisdom, Prudence, and Virtue | watch video | listen to podcast
The Natural Virtues | watch video | listen to podcast
Excellence In Deliberation | watch video | listen to podcast
Understanding And Consideration | watch video | listen to podcast
Book 7
Virtue & Vice, Brutality & Heroic Virtue, Akrasia & Self-Control | watch video | listen to podcast
Akrasia: Lack Or Loss Of Self Control | watch video | listen to podcast
Knowledge, Opinion, and Akrasia | watch video | listen to podcast
Qualified Forms Of Akrasia | watch video | listen to podcast
Is Akrasia Due To Anger Better? | watch video | listen to podcast
The Practical Syllogism and Human Action | watch video | listen to podcast
Self-Restraint (Enkrateia) | watch video | listen to podcast
Brutality and Morbid Dispositions | watch video | listen to podcast
Softness, Endurance, and Pain | watch video | listen to podcast
Obstinacy, Stubbornness, and Self-Restraint | watch video | listen to podcast
Desirability of Bodily Pleasures | watch video | listen to podcast
The Goodness or Badness of Pleasures | watch video | listen to podcast
Book 10
The Contemplative Life | watch video | listen to podcast
The Active Or Political Life | watch video | listen to podcast
Is Pleasure The Good? | watch video | listen to podcast
Differences Between Pleasures | watch video | listen to podcast
Pleasures And Activities | watch video | listen to podcast
The Value Of Amusements | watch video | listen to podcast
Ethics And Education | watch video | listen to podcast
So, there you have them! 31 lecture videos and 31 podcast lectures, rounding out these important discussions of Aristotle’s ethical theory coming from one of the most important and influential books in the field of moral theory. I hope they provide you hours of useful discussion and analysis that fosters and furthers you own continuing education