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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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00:11:44

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/09

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on how the fictional world of Tlön, in the space of a decade, captivates the people of Earth and begins to disintegrate the reality of our own world, replacing Earth and its cultures with those of TlönTo support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd

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00:19:05

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/08

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the philosophical idealism that characterizes the cultures and civilization of Tlön's countries, and the difficulty of framing a heretical or paradoxical materialism. The solution to the paradox of the coins is developed by an orthodox philosopher, who proposes a idealistic pantheism

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00:15:35

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/07

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the ways in which the assumption of philosophical idealism, reflected in the very languages of the world of Tlön, affect not just the mindsets of the people, but even the disciplines studied and applied within it. The most important discipline is psychology, with all other disciplines

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00:14:36

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - A...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/06

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the discovery of a vast centuries-long project to produce, first a fictional country (Uqbar), and then a fantasy world (Tlön), carried out by a number of experts whose coordinate work results in a 40-volume First Encyclopedia of TlönTo support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site

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00:14:26

Jorge Luis Borges - Funes, His Memory - Sadler's...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/05

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Funes, His Memory" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It narrates encounters with and speculates about the mind and projects of a young man who, after an accident, possesses a perfect memory and capacity of perception. This renders him capable of all sorts of possible mental feats far beyond that of even exceptional human beings, but also with little

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00:17:33

Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - The...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/04

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative at the center of the larger story, the production of a labyrinth as a novel by Ts'ui Pen, and its translation, editing, and explanation by the sinologist Dr. Stephen Albert.The Garden of Forking Paths is that novel, which appears to be contradictory, confused, a

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00:14:46

Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - Yu...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/12/02

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative of the spy or secret agent genre which provides the outer shell of the more metaphysical narrative nested within it. This story centers around a Chinese spy for the German Empire during World War, Dr Yu Tsun, who intends to communicate the location of a British

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00:13:50

Jorge Luis Borges - The House Of Asterion - Sadler'...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/30

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The House Of Asterion" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the perspective of the legendary minotaur of Crete, who lives within the labyrinth, his house, which has fourteen or infinite doorsTo support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here -

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00:19:41

Jorge Luis Borges, The Lottery In Babylon - Sadler's...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/29

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Lottery In Babylon" which can be found in Collected Fictions. The narrator of the story, a citizen of Babylon, discusses the complex history of the Lottery, the Company that administers it, and the multiple philosophical interpretations of both of these. The Lottery ends up being the centrally determining institution in this community, and involves complex

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00:14:44

Plato, Republic Book 1 - Knowledge, Practitioners,...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/27

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1.Specifically it provides some needed context for the concepts of knowledge or crafts that get used in the arguments Socrates uses against Polemarchus and Thrasymachus To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You

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00:09:04

Plato, Republic Book 1 - Thrasymachus' Definition Of...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/26

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1. Specifically it examines the Sophist Thrasymachus' definition of justice as "the advantage of the stronger" To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube

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00:20:15

Plato, Republic Book 1 - Polemarchus' Theory Of...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/25

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1. Specifically it examines specifically the "traditional" conception of justice articulated by Polemarchus there -- a view which says justice is doing good to friends and bad to enemies. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee -

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00:13:20

Plato, Republic Book 1 - Wealth, Character And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/25

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1. Specifically it examines the early discussion between Socrates and Cephalus, in which they are thinking about the relationship between wealth, good character, and happiness. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee -

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00:13:27

John Wisdom, Gods - Considering Belief In Gods -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/23

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis". It focuses specifically on his discussion towards the end of the work, where Wisdom draws some implications of the earlier points in the article for the reasonableness or propriety of belief in gods. He also discusses what he calls a "double and opposite phased change", which bears upon the origin and meaning

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00:15:57

John Wisdom, Gods - Connecting, Disconnecting, And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/22

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis".It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls the "connecting technique", that is of noting features that different matters have in common, as well as of disconnecting and of noting unspoken or implicit connections To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If

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00:16:21

John Wisdom, Gods - The Logic Of Disputes About...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/21

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis".It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls the "logic(s)" of disputes about the existence or nature of gods. By this, Wisdom has in mind the type of appeals or argumentation that people can use. Wisdom thinks that these disputes are not governed by the same logic as mathematical matters or

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00:13:14

John Wisdom, Gods - The Invisible Gardener Parable -...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/20

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis".It focuses specifically on his discussion of the parable of the invisible gardener found in section 6 of the essay, the most often read and anthologized part of it. Wisdom develops this parable in order to bring out what disputes between theists and atheists about the existence of God often sound like. To

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00:15:11

John Wisdom, Gods - Sources Of Questions About God(s)...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/19

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis".It focuses specifically on his discussion of the different sources of questions that people could have or be motivated by in disputes about whether or not god(s) exist. One of these sources is experiential and another is metaphysical, but there is also a third source, which Wisdom analyses in more depth and

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00:14:36

John Wisdom, Gods - Differences Between Theists And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/18

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis". It focuses specifically on his discussion of how we ought to understand the differences in perspective of theists and atheists in modern times. These differences are not, in Wisdom's view, about matters that are experimental, but have to be understood in other ways. To support my ongoing work, go to my

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00:13:30

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu - Encountering...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/11/16

This lecture discusses key ideas from the early 20th century weird and horror story writer, H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu", a classic work of cosmic horror and absolutely central to what will later come to be called the Cthulhu mythos. It focuses specifically on the encounter with the Great Old One Cthulhu narrated within the story. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here -

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