Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics | Book 1 | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses Book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

Timestamps:
00:50 The text
01:39 All action aims at some good
05:42 Is there some good all our actions aim at? The chief good
08:15 The role of ethics in politics
10:16 Precision and clarity in ethics
13:11 The role of experience in ethical judgment
15:38 What is the greatest good?
17:50 What is happiness?
19:38 Pleasure
22:06 Honor, or the political life
28:02 What about wealth?
28:47 What has Plato to say? The Forms
35:48 The greatest good is something final
38:52 Happiness
39:42 The greatest good is something self-sufficient
40:43 Happiness is something final and self-sufficient
41:18 Happiness and the function of man
44:40 What is the function of man?
46:19 An active life of a rational being
47:51 Human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue(Happiness defined)
51:49 A complete life

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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