Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Brutality and Morbid Dispositions - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about the moral state called "theriotes" in Greek, typically translated as "brutality" or "bestiality" in English.

This is a condition in which the higher, rational, part of the person is not just corrupted (as is the case in vice), but is either not present or not working in any significant sense, reducing the person to the level of animality.

Aristotle discusses how this differs from vice, some of the causes and manifestations of brutality, as well as what he calls "morbid dispositions" as a sub-class of these.

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