Aristotle: Organizing a World of Inquiry
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 26
- Historical Biographies
- 41 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A biography of Aristotle from Macedonian Stagira to Plato's Academy, biological fieldwork, royal patronage, the Lyceum, political theory, and an immense but unstable textual legacy.
Why it's worth a listen
It combines extraordinary observational range with the exclusions, hierarchies, and slavery embedded in Aristotle's world and arguments.
A question to keep
How did Aristotle organize inquiry across nature and society, and where did his drive for order reproduce the hierarchy of his world?
Chapters
- Questions on the Shore of Lesbos
- From Stagira to the Academy
- After Plato
- The Tutor and the Conqueror
- The Lyceum as Research Community
- Tools for Reasoning
- Studying Living Things
- Ethics and Political Animals
- Natural Slavery and Gender Hierarchy
- Flight, Texts, and Afterlives