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Sadler's LecturesMax Scheler, Ressentiment - Sources Of Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on Scheler's analysis of two main sources of ressentiment, namely the desire for revenge, on the one hand, and envy, jealousy, and the competitive impulse. There are other affects that can figure into ressentiment as well, that Scheler identifies, such as hatred, malice, spite, the urge to detract, and schadenfreude.
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Mind & DesireEpisode 26 - Converting Theoretical Ideas Into Philosophical Practices (With Two Examples)As many of you listeners know, I teach classes both in traditional academic settings, in institutions that, you know, have a kind of formalized approach to education, and I do those face-to-face and online. And I also teach, in the Study with Sadler Academy, online classes and seminars to a much wider variety of people, in part because I open it up. You don't have to be enrolled in a particular school in order to take classes. And I also make them a good bit more affordable. Now, that's a totally different topic.Where am I going...2025-02-2611 min
Mind & DesireEpisode 25 - Productivity, Prioritization, And A Sense Of ProportionIf you follow me on social media, you no doubt saw me posting a kind of funny meme about a workaholic. It actually shows a guy in heavy plate armor, and I suppose this is from some video game setting, as some people have pointed out. The caption of it is the part that we're really interested in, and it shows him with his head in his arms saying “workaholics when they run out of workahol”.And, you know, the point there is, of course, humorous. There is no such thing as workahol, but we could think of t...2025-02-1114 min
Sadler's LecturesH.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu - Inspector Legrasses AccountH.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu - Inspector Legrasses Account by Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler2024-10-2313 min
Sadler's LecturesFranz Kafka, The Metamorphosis - The Cook, Servant Girl, Lodgers, And Charwoman - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century novelist and short story writer, Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"
This lecture discusses the responses and attitudes towards Gregor on the part of different minor characters in the short story, namely the cook and servant-girl who respond to Gregory with horror, the lodgers who pretend to be disgusted by him but really are just taking advantage of the situation, and the charwoman who exhibits a kind of rough friendliness towards him.
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Sadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - More About Characteristics of Contraries - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 11 which focuses on several additional characteristics of contraries (ta enantia).
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-3109 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Truth And Falsity Of Opposite Statements - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 10 of truth and falsity of opposed statements. In some cases, one statement must be true and the other false, but in some cases both can be false.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3...2023-10-3008 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Changes From Opposites Into Each Other - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 10 focused on how and whether opposites change into each other. He focuses primarily on the second form of opposition - contraries - and the third form - positives and privatives.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories...2023-10-2912 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Affirmation And Denial - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 10 focused on one main type of opposition, namely that between affirmation (kataphasis) and denial (apophasis).
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-2710 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Privatives And Positives - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 10 focused on one main type of opposition, that between privatives (steresis) and positives (hexis).
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-2611 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Contraries And Intermediates - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 10 of contraries (ta enantia) that have intermediates and those that do not. We also discuss how and why there would be intermediaries for some contraries and not for others.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories...2023-10-2414 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Four Types Of Opposition - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 10 between four types of opposition - correlatives, contraries, privations and positives, affirmations and denials or negations.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-2307 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Qualities, Relations, And Knowledge - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 of whether knowledge - both in general and as specific types of knowledge - are best understood as falling in the category of quality or that of relation.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn...2023-10-2210 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Qualities And Contraries - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 focused on qualities and contraries.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-2008 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Opinions, Statements, And Contraries - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 5 about whether statements (logoi) or opinions (doxai) admit of or have contraries, or not. His view is that while statements or opinions can be true or false - and these do seem to be contraries to each other - it is really the things themselves referred to in the statements or opinions that admit of contraries.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1809 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Qualities, Habits, And Dispositions - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 of one particular class of qualities, namely habits and dispositions.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1614 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Natural Capacities as Qualities - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 of one particular class of qualities, namely "natural capacities"
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1411 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - The Category Of Quality - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 of the category of quality (to poion), one of the most important of the categories of predication
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1312 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Relation, Knowledge, And Perception - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 7 of how perception and knowledge function as relatives to their objects.
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Sadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Relations, Contraries, And Degrees - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 7 of whether relations admit of contraries and degrees. His view is that some relational terms can be contraries or admit of degrees, but that others do not, so that neither contrariness nor degrees are essential to relations
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You can find over 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www...2023-10-1112 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Passive Qualities And Passions - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 8 of one particular class of qualities, namely passive qualities and passions.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1011 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Relation And Correlatives - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 7 of the relationship between the category of relation (pros ti) and correlative terms.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-1015 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - The Category Of Relation - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 7 of the category of relation (pros ti).
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-0815 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Space, Time, and Number - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 6 of the relationship between space, time, and quantity. Both space and time are what Aristotle calls continuous quantity.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-0711 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Quantity In Primary And Secondary Senses - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 6 of the relationship between quantity understood in primary and secondary senses of the term.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-0609 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - The Category Of Quantity - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 6 of the category of quantity (to poson). Quantity, in Aristotle's view, encompasses number, speech,
geometric matters, time, and space.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories - https://amzn.to/3nS55ud2023-10-0414 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Contraries And Substances - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his discussion in chapter 5 of the relationship between substances and contraries. Substances - whether primary or secondary - do not have contraries themselves, and do not admit of degrees. Substances do, however, admit of or accept contraries - and this is something distinctive to substances as opposed to other things.
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You can find over 2500...2023-10-0310 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Species And Genus - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 5 between two sorts of secondary substances - species (eidos) and genus (genos). Species are types of things, i.e. of primary substances or individually existing things. Genuses have a similar relation to species, as species do to individual things.
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You can find over 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel...2023-10-0212 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Primary And Secondary Substances - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 5 of the distinction between primary and secondary substances. Primary substances are existing individual things, which function as the underlying subjects that other things either are in or are predicated of. Secondary substances include species and genera, and are not substances in a full sense of the term.
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Sadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - The Ten Categories - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his listing in chapter 4 of the ten categories or predicables. These are main ways that uncombined terms signify something.
These are: substance (ousia), Quantity (poson), Quality (poion), Relation (pros ti), Place (pou), Time (pote), Position (keisthai), State (ekhein),Action (poiein) and Passion (pashkein).
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You can find over 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel...2023-09-2717 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - In A Subject Vs Predicated Of A Subject - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 2 between something being "in" a subject, and something being predicated of a subject. There are four main possibilities, and each of those is discussed here, using Aristotle's own examples.
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Purchase Aristotle's Categories...2023-09-2615 minSadler's LecturesAristotle, Categories - Univocal, Equivocal, And Derivative Terms - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Categories, focusing on his distinction in chapter 1 between three types of terms - Univocal (sunonuma), Equivocal (homonuma), and Derivative (paronuma). This distinction concerns the connection between linguistic expressions and meanings. Univocal terms have the same meaning, or in Aristotle's terms, "statement of essence" (logos tes ousias). Equivocal terms have the same name or expression, but different statements of essence. Derivative terms are grammatically related to each other, and have connected meanings.
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Sadler's LecturesPlato, Republic Book 2 - The Ring Of Gyges - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2.
Specifically it examines one of the most striking metaphors of the book: The Ring of Gyges, which turns its possessor invisible, and is liable to lead the wielder into injustice.
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You can find over 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel...2023-09-2318 minSadler's LecturesPlato, Republic Book 2 - Representations Of Justice As Instrumentally Good - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2.
Specifically it examines the ways in which justice is typically represented by family, media, and other sources of moral education -- namely as an instrumental, rather than intrinsic good
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You can find over 2500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel...2023-09-2212 minSadler's LecturesPlato, Republic Book 2 - The Origin And Nature Of Justice - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2.
Specifically it examines the theory about the nature and origin of justice presented there by Glaucon -- a view that justice arises primarily because human beings realize that their chances of getting away with committing injustice are lower than their chances -- or the harm done -- of avoiding suffering injustice.
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If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO...2023-09-2010 minSadler's LecturesPlato, Republic Book 2 - What Kind Of Good Is Justice - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 2.
Specifically it examines the question about what sort of good justice is -- instrumental or intrinsic.
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Sadler's LecturesJohn Hospers, What Libertarianism Is - Government, Individuals, And Business - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher and political activist John Hospers' essay "What Libertarianism Is"
It focuses specifically on his views on the limited role government should play, mainly focused on protecting rights, and the impacts and implications this would have for businesses and individuals
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Sadler's LecturesJohn Hospers, What Libertarianism Is - Rights To Life, Liberty, and Property - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century philosopher and political activist John Hospers' essay "What Libertarianism Is"
It focuses specifically on his discussion of the three rights he takes as fundamental, i.e. the right to maintain one's life, the right to maintain one's liberty or freedom, and the right to one's own property. These supersede and structure all other moral considerations for the libertarian.
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Sadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Fleeing And Facing The Shadow - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on Ged's struggles with the "Shadow", the entity that came into Earthsea through a terrible mistake with magic on Ged's part. At first, he attempts to escape and flee the shadow, but then following Ogion's advice he turns on it and hunts it. Finally he and the shadow are integrated through his giving the shadow his own name.
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If...2023-08-3017 minSadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Vetch's Friendship With Ged - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
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It focuses specifically on Ged's education in the high arts of magic at Roke Island.
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Purchase A Wizard of Earthsea - amzn.to/2YgnLvv2023-08-2718 minSadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - The Dragons Of Pendor - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on Ged/Sparrowhawk's encounter with the younger dragons and the great dragon off the shores of the Isle of Pendor
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Purchase A Wizard of...2023-08-2419 minSadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Understanding The Equilibrium - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the conception of the "equilibrium" that the masters and mages of Roke invoke and discuss in and out of their classes. The young mage Ged has to learn about the equilibrium by painful experience as well.
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Sadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Danger And Temptations Of Power - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the dangers and temptations of magical power that are depicted in the novel.
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Sadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Ged's Pride And Humbling - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the sources of - and the struggles with - Ged/Sparrowhawk's pride, and the humbling of it as he realizes the consequences of his actions
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You can find over 2,000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com...2023-08-1618 minSadler's LecturesUrsula K Leguin, A Wizard Of Earthsea - Bringing Shadows Into The World - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on specifically how Ged/Sparrowhawk uses a spell he does not fully understand to summon a spirit of the dead, but ends up opening a rift through which a dangerous and evil shadow comes into Earthsea.
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It focuses specifically on the different types and users of magic within Earthsea, as we learn about them in the first book. This not only includes human beings like witches, warlocks, wizards, enchantresses, and mages, but also dragons and the old powers of the earth
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It focuses specifically on the concept of a "true name", which allows the knowing or understanding of the thing named, as well as its control or manipulation by magic. Persons, animals, things, even bodies of water each have their name in Earthsea
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Sadler's LecturesPhilip Dick, The Android And Human - Concerns About Drugs - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.
It focuses specifically on Dick's views on the use of drugs, both street drugs and prescribed drugs, the latter of which he views as more problematic, and used to reduce people to analogues of androids
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It focuses specifically on how some of the characteristics and motivations of the present generation of children and young adults in his time can function to resist being reduced to analogues to androids ("androidization").
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It focuses specifically on the ways in which he thinks genuinely human beings (those who have not been reduced to androids) can be distinguished from androids.
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It focuses specifically on Dick's view that the distinction between the mechanical or electrical and the animate is beginning to break down in late modernity. He also suggests that in addition to looking to machines, computers, and androids to understand the human, we should reverse the analogy and use our understanding of human nature to better understand the machines that are...2023-07-2317 min
Sadler's LecturesJ.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Eucatastrophe, Evangelium, And Joy - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories
It focuses specifically on his discussion, at the very end of the work, of what he terms "eucatastrophe" (as opposed to duscatastrophe) as a function of fairy stories, the "happy ending" that occurs through pain, suffering, loss, but not a final defeat. There is a joy both for sub-creators and for readers or listeners of the stories, and it is connected to the good news or evangelium that comes through the stories.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion of the motivations we can have for engaging in escape from the present by reading fairy stories. Some of these motivations might be framed negatively, but others are better understood in terms of basic and even primordial desires of human beings.
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Sadler's LecturesJ.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Escape's Legitimacy - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories
It focuses specifically on his discussion of the common criticism that gets made of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy stories, namely that they are escapes from the reality of the ordinary life that we have a duty to remain with. Tolkien thinks this misguided, and offers some reasons why escape might be a reasonable and valuable thing to engage in.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion near the end of the work of recovery of what has been lost (sometimes without us even realizing it) through fairy stories. He also addresses the problem many people impose upon themselves, worrying too much about originality, rather than seeing that creativity is possible even with few and often-used elements.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion bearing upon four connected terms and ideas: sub-creation, sub-creators, secondary worlds, and secondary beliefs. Successful fantasy and fairy stories involves the author as a sub-creator, producing and offering to us a secondary world in which we can believe and within the scope of which things can be true.
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It focuses specifically on Tolkien's conception of fantasy, which he takes to be at the core of fairy tales, and why it is that one art in particular - literature, using the medium of language - is best suited for fantasy and fairy stories, by contrast to painting or to drama
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It focuses specifically on his culinary metaphor of stories as being something that comes out of a pot or cauldron, as a stock, soup, or stew, and prepared by cooks.
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It focuses specifically on the passage where he distinguishes three "faces" of fairy stories, "the Mystical towards the Supernatural; the Magical towards Nature; and the Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man." Tolkien claims that the magical is the essential face, but the other two are often involved as well. We also go into his later distinction between magic and enchantment.
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If...2023-07-1012 minSadler's LecturesJ.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Are Fairy Stories For Children? - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories
It focuses specifically on his discussion of whether or not Fairy Stories are essentially for children or not. Tolkien engages in some useful criticism of people who think they are, including Andrew Lang, well known for his fairy books.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion of theories about the origins of fairy stories, tackling what he considers to be the least important of the three questions he is focused upon.
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It focuses specifically on his views on what actually makes a narrative a fairy story, considering some common but misconceived answers to this question, in order to determine a right answer to it, namely that they are stories that are about or involve, "touches on or uses" the realm of Faërie.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Remedies Against Anger From The Muses - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 11, in which Marcus sets out nine remedies for anger allegorically received from the Muses, and then adds three more, one of them a gift from Apollo.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Philosophy And One's Own Life - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 8 which has to do with incorporating philosophy in practical ways into the scope and purposes of one's own life. This allows us to avoid falling into vainglory (kenodoxia).
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Analysing Things One Encounters - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which he suggests that we engage in analysis of things that we encounter in our experiences.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Finding Pleasure And Beauty In Things - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which he advocates finding beauty and pleasure in even things that appear dangerous, damaged, imperfect, or incomplete within the universe
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Injustice, Sinning, And Universal Nature - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 9, in which he equates engaging in unjust actions of various sorts with engaging in impiety, sinning, or blaspheming.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Reasoning Instead Of Getting Angry - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 5, in which he suggests to himself, and to us his readers, that we can engage in some productive reasoning rather than getting angry, particularly when we are dealing with people who are making mistakes or being offensive.
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It focuses specifically on a passage in book 2, where Marcus details a number of ways in which the soul "injures" or "degrades" (hubrizei heautēn) itself, suggesting that he and we ought to avoid those.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Stoic Providence Or Epicurean Atoms - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a set of passages in books 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 that deal with a common recurring theme, namely that either the universe is structured and organized providentially (the Stoic perspective), or events in the universe are causally connected but random (the Epicurean perspective).
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Retreating Into Oneself - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 4 about our capacity to withdraw into the inner space of ourselves, which gets taken along with a passage in book 8 about the inner citadel, to suggest that everyone has a calm, non-busied place within their soul. This is the case for those who have prepared such a space within them by practicing philosophy.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Pity In Place Of Anger - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on three passages in book 7 which have a common theme, namely avoiding feeling anger at people who screw up (hamartein) by reminding ourselves of how and why people screw up in the ways that they do. This enables us to feel other things towards them, including pity or compassion, in place of anger.
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It focuses specifically on a passage in book 9, in which he discusses how we ought to respond on our own parts to encountering people who do wrong.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Choosing The Highest Good - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which Marcus suggests we should pursue what the highest good for human beings is.
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Sadler's LecturesMarcus Aurelius, Meditations - Preparing For The Day - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)
It focuses specifically on a passage in book 2, where Marcus gives himself a number of reminders as he begins his day. These reminders are intended to help him maintain his own good character despite having to deal with people who are indeed bad in specific ways. For those who do understand the nature of goods and evils, there is a greater responsibility to work with their fellow human beings, rather than to get angry with them"
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Sadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 3 - Daily Self-Examination - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 3
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about a long-term daily practice of self-examination Seneca suggests we ought to engage in in order to eliminate or lessen anger.
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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www...2023-06-1412 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 3 - Physical Stresses, Remedies, And Anger - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 3
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about the mind-body connection and how stresses to the body can make us more susceptible to anger.
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...2023-06-1313 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 3 - Anger As The Worst Of Vices - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 3
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about his claims and arguments that anger is the worst of all of the vices.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about how we can avoid getting angry by avoiding activities and occasions that are likely to cause us to feel anger.
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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www...2023-06-1014 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 3 - Envy, Anger, And Perspective - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 3
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about how envy and the tendency to comparison central to it not only interfere with our capacity to enjoy happiness but also lead us into feeling anger.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about a set of cognitive reframing and reinterpreting practices that we can use in order to avoid getting angry or to reduce anger that we do experience
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Sadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 3 - Choosing Companions To Avoid Anger - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 3
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 3 about the choices we can make about who we surround ourselves with, who we engage with, and what effects those people will have on our characters and specifically how we deal with anger
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You...2023-06-0512 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On The Shortness Of Life - Philosophy And Getting More Life - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Shortness of Life
It focuses specifically on his advocacy of studying philosophy as a way of gaining ourselves more time and life, participating in the thought and even life of other people, specifically philosophers
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It focuses specifically on his discussions throughout that work of people who misuse the leisure and free time they possess by pursuing pleasures that require a lot of time and work to procure, enjoy, or safeguard. Seneca tells us that: "They are not unoccupied whose pleasures are made a busy occupation."
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It focuses specifically on his discussion of the three times: past (quod fuit), present (quod est), and future (quod futurum est).
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It focuses specifically on the state many people waste their lives in, which he terms being "preoccupied" (occupatus). The preoccupied rob themselves of the opportunity of enjoying and appreciating their present moment, even when they appear to be focused on the present. They also render themselves unable to use their own past as a resource.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion of our time and our life as the most precious commodity we possess, and how most people not only don't realize this, but also waste much of their time until it is too late.
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...2023-05-3013 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 2 - Three Movements Of Anger - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about his discussion of the three stages or movements involved in the emotion of anger. In the first stage, we grasp an appearance and are affected by it in some manner that can lead to anger. The second stage involves judgement, reason, will, and assent, and we have some control at this point. The third stage is the full emotion of anger, and is at that point outside of the control of the angry person
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about his answers to objections some people raise against the Stoic negative evaluation of anger, namely that the virtuous or wise person ought to get angry with wrongdoers. Seneca provides several lines of reasoning for why the opposite should be the case
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about one set of objections that Seneca considers and responds to in book 2, namely that being prone to anger involves a sort of nobility (generositas) or straightforwardness (simplicitas) on the part of the cultures, animals, or people who feel and act upon anger.
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about his views about the ancient four-elements/humor-based physical theory and its implications for anger
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It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about the difference between anger and irascibility on the one side, and brutality (ferritas) and cruelty (crudelitas). He also examines how anger can over time develop into cruelty.
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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos...2023-05-2415 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 2 - Anger At Inanimate Things - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about the irrationality of getting angry with inanimate objects, since this involves attributing an intentionality and agency to them which they do not possess. Seneca also considers whether it is rational for us to transfer that anger to the makers, designers, or craftspeople of those inanimate objects, both human and divine.
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If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do...2023-05-2314 minSadler's LecturesSeneca, On Anger Book 2 - Anger And Self-Awareness - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on his discussion in book 2 about his discussion of one very useful principle and practice people can use to be less angry, namely realizing that nobody is without fault. If we develop some self-awareness of our own faults, flaws, and failures, we are more able to not only take criticism from others, but to be understanding, patient, and forgiving with other people who exhibit the same or similar faults to our own
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Sadler's LecturesCynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Prudently Taking On Toil - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient letter collection called the Cynic Epistles. This one looks at those letters (most likely falsely) attributed to Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school.
Specifically it focuses on the notion of "toil" (ponos, ponein) in Cynic philosophy and practice. The Cynics argue that toil, that is actively engaging in work and enduring what one encounters, is what leads a person to development of the virtues, which include wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage. Our engagement with toil is both voluntary and involuntary, and if we do not choose the right sorts of...2023-05-1616 minSadler's LecturesCynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Cynicism, Virtue, And Happiness - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient letter collection called the Cynic Epistles. This one looks at those letters (most likely falsely) attributed to Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school.
Specifically it focuses on the nature of human happiness (eudaimonia), which for the Cynics involves freedom and virtue. Crates discusses or references a number of the virtues, including wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage, as well as vices opposed to these. He also briefly examines how these virtues are developed through toil (ponos), self-control and endurance, as well as how the vices develop, in significant part through bad...2023-05-1514 minSadler's LecturesCynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Cynicism As Philosophy's Short Path - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient letter collection called the Cynic Epistles. This one looks at those letters (most likely falsely) attributed to Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school.
Specifically it focuses on the Cynic conception of philosophy, and the trope that Cynic philosophy is the short road to happiness. Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school, was a member of a developing tradition that was viewed as started by Antisthenes and refined or perfected by Diogenes of Sinope.
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Sadler's LecturesLactantius, On The Anger Of God - Precepts About Anger - Sadler's LecturesThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Christian rhetorician and philosopher's short treatise, On The Anger of God
Specifically it focuses on his discussion of objections that might be raised against his position that God does and should be angry with some people. These objections would focus on the fact that God provides precepts for human beings that say they shouldn't get angry, shouldn't express or act upon anger, or should resolve their anger quickly.
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