Aristotle: He Invented Logic, Biology, and Ethics — And Was Very Wrong About Women

Aristotle spent twenty years studying under Plato, tutored Alexander the Great, and then systematically disagreed with almost everything his teacher believed. This episode covers his invention of formal logic, his founding of systematic biology, his virtue ethics framework, and his views on women and slavery that we will not skip. Watch the next video in this series for the three Hellenistic schools that answered Aristotle's questions by asking what to do when the world falls apart. ▶ Watch next: Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics: Three Ways to Survive When Your World Falls Apart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtW8CNiwpAw Chapters: 0:00 The Student Who Stayed Twenty Years and Then Left 4:35 The Man Who Invented Thinking About Thinking 9:30 Biology From Scratch: How Aristotle Built a Science 14:01 How to Live Well: The Nicomachean Ethics and Virtue 18:27 The Parts That Embarrass Everyone: Women, Slavery, and Wrong Physics 22:41 How Aristotle Became Medieval Europe's Authority on Everything 27:39 What Aristotle Got Right, What He Got Wrong, and the Aristotelian You Already Are 33:48 Quiz Time 35:33 Key Takeaways #explained #learn #2026 --- Disclosure The avatars and voices in this video are AI-generated. All content -- research, scripts, lesson design, and the custom video engine -- is created by a CISSP, CISM, and PMP certified professional with a Master's in Project Management, a B.S. in Information Technology, and a Doctorate in Business Administration in progress. This channel exists to make learning accessible and straightforward. Educational history-of-ideas series. This channel does not represent any university, religious tradition, or political viewpoint. The series presents what philosophers argued and how those arguments shaped both modern science and modern religion. Faith is personal, doubt is personal — this series presents the historical record of the arguments, not theology or atheism.