Aristotle's entire political theory, aesthetics, ethics, and educational theory tend to follow from his underlying metaphysics; understanding how he gets straight the metaphysics explains how his epistemology follows and then how political thought, aesthetics, ethics, and educational theory flow from these foundations.

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Unidentified Speaker — A History of Philosophy | 14 Aristotle's Ethics [cxHz6E0KgKg]

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the way in which his underlying metaphysic produces the results you remember the diagram we um played with with Plato get straight the metaphysics the epistemology is of course a corollary of that how you know depends on what it is you're talking about knowing you see and from that uh political thought Aesthetics ethics educational theory and everything else uh tends to follow [36:45]

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A History of Philosophy | 14 Aristotle's Ethicswheatoncollege
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