The Mark Steel Lectures

Season 1 Episode 4: Aristotle

3 SeasonsOct 28, 2003NR30m8.8

Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras (“never ate beans”),to Plato (“old and bald”),to Aristotle (“made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle, or possibly not”). The lecture takes in all the important areas of classical philosophy, including ethics, Sue Barker, whether the Four Tops are really the Four Tops at all, incontinence and Jim Davidson, ballooning, and why Aristotle would have disapproved of Orange marches. Filmed at th... Full Story