Introduction to Aristotle"s philosophy

The influence of Aristotle"s thought goes far beyond the framework of a separate philosophical school and the ancient tradition as a whole. Without exaggeration, it can be called one of the creators of European culture - its metalance, an instrument of cognition and self -knowledge. That small part of his works, which has reached us through the thickness of millennia, continues to attract the attention of researchers, experts and lovers of philosophy. In his thorough and affordable lectures, Sergei Melnikov reveals the main topics and concepts of the philosophical system of Aristotle. The course begins with a brief review of the biography of the ancient Greek thinker. In subsequent lectures, his theory of knowledge, anthropology, theology, cosmology, physics, metaphysics and ethics are briefly presented. Particular attention is paid to the origin of the basic terms of stagirite, the analysis of the content of key concepts, the characteristics of usual consumption in the classical era and in the subsequent tradition of thought, especially in medieval Latin scholasticism