Aristotle Overview Notes

Plato's dialogues / social website
Unifying theme: can tell soon what the theme is and how things are organized around it.
Sharable: can be given to people to view during appropriate times.
Invitation to open discussion: seeing it and doing it.
Possible to understand but not obvious: not obscure and confusing but requires effort.

Aristotle
Son of a physician. Student of Plato, who called him the brain. He also wrote dialogues, apprently beautiful ones, but they were all lost. Some of what we have are lecture notes. His writings became core elements of education. Dialectic / dialogue quality of his writings.
Plato--things imitating forms. Aristotle--forms possessed by things. Potentialities of things with forms.
Plato--creators and critics acting from a glimpse of an ideal form. Aristotle--creators and critics acting from general principles understood about forms and applied in the potentialities of the moment. Like judges with precedents.
Plato--philosophical dramas. Aristotle--actual dramas. For both, adult education. Undoing false views. Veratasium video on Khan Academy videos.
Plato--unity through theme. Aristotle--unity through action / character development / theme
Combine all the best making qualities--masterpieces--plot driven, character driven, theme driven. Ethos, pathos, logos.
Prototypes--for creating, for appreciating (trailers, so to speak)
Happiness not our direct aim--pay, but the result of pursuing actions with others that fulfill our potentialities as humans
Sending intiguing little parts of talks, maybe with a response. Maybe posting these little pieces for others to send too. Trailers, with voice-over. Or text over? What would they be like?

Aristotle's dramas / social website
Unified action / character development / theme : we can tell right away what we can do on the site, how we might develop along the way, and something of the theme of that development.
Developed and sharable in stages: Can send intiguing little parts of talks, maybe with a comment.  Like trailers, with voice-over. Or text over?
Invitation to open discussion and change of character and contribution: Can send in posts for development.
Possible to understand but not obvious: not obscure but requires effort which is enjoyable.

Aristotle readings
Poetics--action before character, masterpieces, mind, prototypes
Rhetoric--logos, pathos, ethos
On happiness--it is good not because they buy it but they buy it because it is good