Werner Jaeger
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Sep 28, 2026
speaker_2HOST
It is a completely martial scorecard for human worth.
speaker_1HOST
But didn't that code evolve? If we look at Werner Jaeger's Pideia, he talks about this concept of array or excellence.
speaker_2HOST
Yes.
speaker_1HOST
Originally, that just meant being a great killer on the battlefield.
Justin VlasitsGUEST
I mean, so I think it might be helpful to just like give a picture of what the developmentalists like or at least one picture of an important kind of developmentalists would look like in order to see, you know, how that would go.
Justin VlasitsGUEST
So the most important person in Aristotle studies who posited development was this guy, Werner Jaeger, in the early 20th century.
Justin VlasitsGUEST
And he thought that Aristotle's thought underwent, it started from being basically a Platonist in the academy, student of Plato.
Justin VlasitsGUEST
Then he gradually got more and more critical until we end up with the Aristotle we know and love.
Christopher FynskGUEST
Heidegger would have been aware of this through his reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics.
Christopher FynskGUEST
He might also have encountered it in Werner Jaeger's Paideia, published in 1933, and he was certainly no stranger to the Greek of the texts of the Ionian philosophers, such as Heraclitus, in the period of his turn to art.
Christopher FynskGUEST
The Hölderlin Lectures hold long pages on Heraclitus.
Christopher FynskGUEST
As for the term rousmos, let me simply remind you of Aristotle's famous lines regarding the thought of Leucippus and Democritus.