Past Event: WGAP talk: Jake Rohde (Yale)

Thu Apr 7, 2022 4:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.

This event has passed.

This talk is open to member of the Yale Community and will be in a hybrid format.

Title: Aristotle on the meaning of life

Abstract: This new and improved talk argues that life, for Aristotle, means actively engaging in the activities of living things. I call this view the Activity View of Life (AVL). This talk looks at evidence for this thesis in the Aristotelian Corpus; evidence against it in De Anima II.1; and evidence for it again in De Anima II.5. Some bold conclusions about form and being are drawn from this view.