A podcast aimed at exploring life's most important questions and ideas with history's greatest thinkers. In each episode we'll be diving into a classic text from humanity's best philosophers, theologians, and scientists, with the ultimate goal of pursuing truth and wisdom.
In this episode we discuss the second part of Chapter 2 of Aristotle's Categories, in which Aristotle introduces a fourfold division of things which are. This division corresponds to particular accidents, universal accidents, universal substances, and particular substances.
In this episode we discuss the first part of the second chapter of the Categories, which is a division of "things said" into simple and composite.
In this episode we begin to dive into the text of Aristotle's 'Categories,' exploring his distinction between equivocity, univocity, and paronymy, and the importance of this distinction for philosophical and theological thought.
An introduction to Aristotle's 'Categories,' one of the most fundamental works in the history of philosophy, as well as one of the most heavily debated.