The Mark Steel Lectures
Aristotle (1x4)
: 28, 2003
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 the Parthenon and across Athens, Mark Steel brings you the
Aristotle that history has forgotten; the one that liked a pretty
girl, a shop full of beds and a KFC, and just maybe a drink as well.