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Sadler"s Lectures

Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler

I"m that YouTube Philosophy Guy! Find more than 3,000 videos in my main channel. Support my video and podcast work! https://www.patreon.com/sadler or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM Learn more about this podcast channel - https://youtu.be/qRvL0gqlyrw and https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/the-sadlers-lectures-podcast Due to popular demand - and with the work underwritten by my Patreon supporters - I have been converting my videos into MP3 files listeners can listen to anywhere they

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00:12:51

Michel de Montaigne, Essays - Not Judging Us Happy...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/28

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay On Not Judging Us Happy Until After Death (Qu'Il ne Faut Juger de Nostre Heur, Qu'apres la Mort), in which he begins by considering the famous advice given by the Athenian wise man Solon to Croesus, king of Lydia until he was deposed by Cyrus of Persia, namely not to judge any person happy until after their death. Montaigne notes that many people do

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00:16:15

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? -...

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2026/08/25

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?"It focuses upon the fifth and final part of the article, where MacIntyre discusses the implications of both liberal universal morality and the morality of patriotism being morally dangerous, having valid criticisms of each other, and being both in part wrong. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to

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00:13:15

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? - Two...

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2026/08/24

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?" It focuses upon the fourth part of the work where he brings a morality of patriotism and a liberal universalist morality into dialectical engagement with each other. Looking earlier at criticisms liberal morality had levied against patriotism, he had called patriotism a "source of moral danger". Continuing on, it becomes clear that a liberal,

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00:18:02

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/22

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?"It focuses upon he fourth part of the piece, where MacIntyre suggests that the morality of patriotism and liberal morality should be brought into dialectical engagement with each other. He begins by noting some of the criticisms that can be and typically are brought against proponents of patriotism by proponents of liberal, universalizing morality,

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00:15:08

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? -...

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2026/08/20

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?"It focuses upon the third section, in which he outlines some of the central claims of what he calls the morality of patriotism. These have to do with the importance of particular communities as places where human beings learn moral conceptions and valuations, but also develop and are sustained as moral agents in robust senses. If these claims are

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00:12:46

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? -...

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2026/08/18

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?"It focuses upon his discussion of one common approach to morality in modernity that will inevitably construe patriotism however understood as a vice, rather than as a virtue, one he labels "liberal" morality, which requires moral agents to abstract from their particular roles, backgrounds, and societies, and adopt a disinterested perspective. It also

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00:15:15

Alasdair MacIntyre, Is Patriotism A Virtue? -...

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2026/08/16

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's essay "Is Patriotism A Virtue?" It focuses upon the first portion of the work, where MacIntyre notes that the task for the moral philosopher is to provide clarity about the incompatible claims and convictions people make about patriotism, virtue, and morality. He distinguishes patriotism properly called from two other sets of attitudes that are often mistaken for it, and then

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00:14:22

Plutarch, Can Virtue Be Taught? - Sadler's Lectures

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/14

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work Can Virtue Be Taught?In this work, Plutarch considers the arguments of those who claim that virtue, including justice and prudence, cannot be taught, and shows weaknesses to those arguments. Among the arguments that he makes in favor of virtue being able to be taught is his contention that if the other other, lesser skills should be able to be taught, the skill that rightly uses and orders all those

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00:14:11

Plutarch, On Virtue And Vice - Sadler's Lectures

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/13

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Virtue and ViceThis episode focuses on his discussion why living pleasantly and happily requires a person to develop some level of moral virtue and to free themselves of their vices. This has to do in significant part with the fact that even the things that vicious people value and think will bring them happiness, for example wealth, property, power over other people, or positions, aren't really

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00:11:45

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Right Amount And Use Of...

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2026/08/10

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on his discussion at the end of the work that sets out how the rational part of the soul ought to use the emotions from the irrational part of the soul, rather than simply suppress or eliminate them. Plutarch names a number of specific emotions that can serve various virtues. What the reasonable part should do is to introduce order and proportion to

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00:12:19

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Right Order Of Rational...

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2026/08/09

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on his discussion near the end of the work of how the rational and irrational parts of the soul ought to be ordered and related to each other. Plutarch thinks the rational (and divine) part ought to be determining matters overall, and that the irrational (and bodily-affected) part ought to listen to and obey the rational part. This condition takes

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00:12:41

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Criticism of Stoics On...

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2026/08/08

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral Virtue This episode focuses specifically on his criticisms of the Stoic understanding of what the emotions are, how they work, how they arise, and how they influence us human beings in our choices and actions You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on Plutarch's On Moral Virtue here - amzn.to/3gpyrS3 To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:14:04

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Conflict Between...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/07

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral Virtue This episode focuses specifically on how conflicts can arise within the intellectual or reasoning part of the human soul, between different lines of reasoning (logoi) arriving at different judgements about the matters in question. At times, one line of reasoning can be given additional force because of the emotions in the irrational part of the soul. You can find the copy of the text

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00:14:33

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - The Stoic Good Emotional...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/06

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on his discussion of the Stoic doctrine of the "good emotional states" (eupatheiai), which are rational desire (boulēsis), caution (eulabeia), and joy (kharis). Some of the points Plutarch makes seem a bit off-target in this section, as far as the Stoic doctrine goes, but we do learn something about Plutarch's own views on the matter. He also provides

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00:13:27

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Criticism Of The Stoic...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/04

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on his critical examination of what the Stoics call the hegemonikon, translated as "the ruling part" of the human soul. As opposed to a Platonist or Aristotelean moral psychology, in which there is a higher rational part of the human soul, and a lower irrational part of the soul, the Stoics claim that reasoning, impulses, and emotions all take place in

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00:13:08

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Intemperance and Lack Of...

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2026/08/03

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral Virtue This episode focuses specifically on the distinction he draws between the vice of intemperance (akolasia) and the other bad, but not vicious moral state of lack of self-control (akrasia). Similarly to his treatment of the virtue of temperance and the state of self control, he notes that the two main parts of the human soul involved are disposed differently. In both states, the lower,

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00:14:46

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Temperance And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/02

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on the distinction he draws between temperance (sophrosunē), which is a virtue, and self-control (enkrateia), which is not a virtue but is a good state. Both of them involve two parts of the human soul, the rational and irrational part. In both of them, the rational part is in good condition and functioning well, but they differ in how the irrational,

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00:12:45

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Theoretical And Practical...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/08/01

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral Virtue This episode focuses specifically on his discussion of two distinct uses of the faculty of reason human beings have. One use focuses on things that are by necessity and remain the same, that exist absolutely, and this is scientific or theoretical reason. The other use focuses on things that are relative to us, which include moral qualities such as the good and the bad, the choiceworthy

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00:13:08

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - Virtue As A Mean -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/07/31

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on his discussion about how virtue is a mean, which bears some similarities with the Aristotelian position on the matter, but also several significant differences of emphasis You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on Plutarch's On Moral Virtue here - https://amzn.to/3gpyrS3 To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:11:07

Plutarch, On Moral Virtue - What Ethical Virtue Is -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2026/07/30

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Moral VirtueThis episode focuses specifically on the section where Plutarch discusses what he takes moral or ethical virtue to actually be. He frames it in terms of a quality of the irrational part of the soul that has been established within it as a habit formed or shaped by the rational part of the soul. For Plutarch, the goal is not to eliminate emotion entirely but to impose right order and

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