Welcome to SLE 22B!
THIS WEEK’S READING: Book 2, Chapters 6 & 7 from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT: Part 1 of your Interview Assignment will be due the Monday following your Module 7 Zoom meeting. Be sure to visit the Interview Assignment page for more details and deadlines about this activity!
Read: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Book 2, Chapters 6 & 7
Watch: Aristotle Mini-Lecture (Part 1)
Aristotle Review and the Idea of ‘Character’
Check for Understanding
Watch: Aristotle Mini-Lecture (Part 2)
Aristotle’s “Doctrine of the Mean”
Check for Understanding
Write: Do you think violence has a legitimate role to play in social change?
Optional Bonus Material: Stoic Philosophy
Remember Marcus Aurelius, from Module 1 – the Roman Emperor who started The Meditations by thanking all of the people for the things they taught him? Marcus Aurelius is considered a Stoic philosopher, so here’s a little more information about how Stoic philosophers think about character virtues. This video is by Adisa Banjoko, a hip-hop historian and podcaster – who has lectured in SLE at Stanford a couple of times – talking about the impact of Stoic philosophy in his own life.
More of Adisa’s work can be found on his Instagram, linked here!