Aristotle: The World’s Greatest Philosopher?

A table can be a chair if you sit on it. A chair is just something you sit on. The purpose of an object is what it is used for at the moment. The chairs they are sitting on could be a table if they set other things on them and designated no one should sit on it. Can a tree stump be considered a chair? The shape of a thing does not define it but its purpose. We are biological, chemical driven clumps of mass with an internal and limited power supply based off the other biological, chemically driven clumps of mass we have consumed. Our evolved ways of motion have limitations that can fatigue and by sitting on something, we relieve the stresses of gravity from that system to allow it to regenerate. The chair does not exist but sitting does. Anything can be a hammer.

wow i thought Gale Boetticher died

I wonder if there’s a Platonic Form of Deez Nuts

Very odd to have a guest talk about the existence of chairs.

I thought it was just Alex who believed in the whole the government want you to think chairs exist conspiracy

alex can you navigate through the aristotle works were derivative of ancient hindu texts?

You have Geshe Namdak right there in Jamyang Centre in London… why do you refuse to sit down with a Buddhist philosopher?

Yes

Aristotle argued that all physical, tangible things in the earthly world are composed of different mixtures of earth, air, fire, and water (the classical elements). He also famously introduced aether, or quintessence (the "Fifth Element"), as an incorruptible, eternal essence that distinguishes the heavenly realm from earthly matter.

The classical elements are not physical substances in the modern scientific sense. Rather, they can be understood as four fundamental aspects of consciousness—not human consciousness, but consciousness in the panpsychist sense.

You could argue that an acorn IS an oak tree, just at a different stage of life. To say that an acorn is a nut or a seed is like saying that a puppy isn't a dog, and likewise that an egg isn't a chicken. In fact, that seems to be the logic that anti-abortionists follow. An embryo or a fetus is a human, just in a different stage of life.

I like the way John Sellars pronounces "Aristotle" with the accent on the first syllable. Not like "Mr & Mrs Stotle's lad, 'Arry."

Alex, please consider that Form and Function are not just related, they are symmetry, nearly synonymous. The shape of a thing is what it does. If a thing is doing something, it must have a given shape.

Let's be honest: Aristotle was a baby boy. He enjoyed his breast milk and had great baby boy adventures. So yeah, hot take but…yeah… it is what it is.

Awesome work!