The Thomistic Institute Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers
Apr 12, 2023
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
The Fallacy of the Strahman Fallacy
02:40 • 3min
The Three Types of Soul in Aristotle
05:33 • 3min
The Importance of Self-Motion in Meditation
08:35 • 2min
The Unusual Hypothesis of Vegetative Soul
10:36 • 2min
Aristotle's Position on Motion
13:06 • 3min
Aristotle's Definition of Self-Motion
15:46 • 3min
The Fallacy of the Straw Man
18:36 • 2min
The Vacuum of Aristotle's Physics
21:06 • 4min
The History of Philosophy
25:01 • 1min
The Importance of Local Motion in Digestion
26:11 • 4min
The Problem With Descartes' Education
30:10 • 3min
Aristotle's Argument for Self-Motion
33:32 • 2min
The Mechanistic Account of Metabolism
35:40 • 4min
The Principle of Quantitative Mechanism
39:21 • 2min
The Impossibility of Defining Life
41:08 • 3min
The Philosophy of Descartes
43:53 • 4min
The Reduction of Local Motion
47:35 • 2min
The History of Kinesis in Antiquity
50:01 • 4min
The Misunderstanding of Life Not Being Metabolic
53:54 • 3min
The Difference Between Metabolizing and Non-Metabolism
57:19 • 3min