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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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00:14:11

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Virtue As Its Own Reward...

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2024/10/16

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy LifeIt focuses specifically on his claim that "virtue is its own reward". The Stoics (among others) maintain that virtue is both necessary and sufficient for human happiness, and that nothing else is as valuable as virtue. 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

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00:12:11

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Uphill And Downhill...

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2024/10/14

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy LifeIt focuses specifically on his discussion about different kinds of virtues, using an analogy to going uphill or downhill, where some of the virtues require us to make an effort to push upwards against resistance, and other virtues require us to use restraint to keep things from sliding downwards. For the most part the virtues of the first sort are sub-virtues of the cardinal virtue of courage, and

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00:15:14

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Responses To Critics -...

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2024/10/12

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on the responses to criticisms people tend to make against philosophers, mostly centered on the largely true fact that philosophers don't entirely measure up to the ideals they espouse. 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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00:18:07

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Virtue And Wealth -...

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2024/10/11

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on the relations between virtue and wealth, understood from a Stoic perspective. Unlike some schools who consider wealth to be a good though not the good, and other schools who believe that having wealth is incompatible with virtue, Seneca notes that the Stoics think that wealth is something external and indifferent, but which ought to be used rightly through virtue To

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00:15:08

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Epicureanism vs Other...

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2024/10/10

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on his qualified defense of Epicurus' version of hedonism, which he views as different in those respects from other forms of hedonism, which often use Epicureanism as a cover for their indulgence. 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

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00:10:08

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Joy, Tranquility, And...

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2024/10/09

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on the joy, tranquility, and happiness that, in his view, result from pursuing, possessing, and acting in accordance with the virtues, as the Stoics understand them. These states are something distinct from the pleasure that hedonistic philosophical approaches make the measure for human happiness. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:14:57

Ursula K Leguin, The Other Wind - Alder the Mender...

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2024/10/09

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, The Other Wind, the sixth and final of her Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the dreams that Alder, a village sorcerer whose talent is mending, tells to the aged former archmage Ged on the Isle of Gont. 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 You can find over 3,000 philosophy

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00:20:31

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Pleasure, Virtue, And...

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2024/10/08

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on the distinction between pleasure and virtue as possible means to human happiness. Stoics think that virtue not only is the means to happiness, but is also one of the main components in human 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

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00:15:06

Ursula K Leguin, The Other Wind - Roke's Masters and...

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2024/10/08

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, The Other Wind, the sixth and final of her Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the views and speculations that the masters of Roke engage in when hearing about Alder's dreams of the stone wall separating the living from the dead in the Dry Land 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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00:15:46

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Errors Of The Many -...

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2024/10/07

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy Life It focuses specifically on the mistaken views the many or the crowd have about the nature of human happiness. Seneca notes that when they make and reproduce mistakes, they don't simply affect themselves negatively, but also other people who end up falling into error. He also notes that many elites, particularly those who are superior to other people in terms of wealth, power, or status, are just as

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00:13:40

Seneca, On The Happy Life - Defining The Greatest...

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2024/10/06

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On The Happy LifeIt focuses specifically on he Stoic definitions of the greatest goods that he provides early on in the work. Seneca writes; "Happy, therefore, is the life in agreement with its own nature. And there is no other way for this to come about than if the intellect is, first, healthy and in unending possession of its own health; next, strong and energetic; then, enduring most nobly, fitted to the times,

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00:09:12

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - The Thing In Itself And...

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2024/10/02

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.Specifically it examines his discussion of the analogy he provides in that work between the Thing-In-Itself (Ding-in-sich) and the free human being, who exists both as a phenomenal and a noumenal being 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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00:10:35

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Faculties Of Sensibility,...

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2024/10/01

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of the distinction and relation between three key faculties of the human being, which Kant terms reason, understanding, and sense 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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00:11:01

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - How A Categorical...

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2024/09/29

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of how categorical imperatives are possible. 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 3,000 philosophy videos in my main

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00:09:44

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Three Modes Of The...

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2024/09/28

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of the distinction between three modes of presenting what he terms the "principle of morality" - one focused upon universality of the maxim of one's will, one on treating human beings as ends not just as means, and another focused upon a possible kingdom of ends. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:11:05

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Heteronomy And Spurious...

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2024/09/26

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.Specifically it examines his discussion of what he calls "heteronomy" in moral theories other than his own. He examines empirical principles of morality, which include moral feeling and individual happiness, and rational principles of morality, which include perfection or divine command. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:12:21

Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Irian Finds...

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2024/09/25

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "Dragonfly", and focuses specifically on how Dragonfly whose true name is Irian (but not just that) finally finds her place at the end of the story, resolving the crisis of her admittance to Roke contrary to its rule, and advancing towards a resolution of the crisis that has been troubling Roke To support my ongoing work,

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00:21:58

Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Irian And The...

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2024/09/23

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "Dragonfly", and focuses specifically on the two crises at Roke Isle depicted and partly resolved in the story. The first and immediate crisis is what to do with Irian, who has been admitted to the Great House by the Master Doorkeeper, against the rule of Roke, which forbids women to study there. The second is a

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00:17:01

Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Dragonfly And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2024/09/22

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the story "Dragonfly", and focuses specifically on the interactions between the young, not-quite wizard from Roke, Ivory, and the main character of the story, Dragonfly (whose true name is Irian). Ivory proposes to Dragonfly that she go to Roke and enter disguised as a man. He also wants and attempts to seduce her To support my

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00:16:08

Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Rose And...

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2024/09/20

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books It focuses specifically on the story "Dragonfly", and focuses specifically on the interactions between the local witch Rose and the Dragonfly, centering mainly on their conversations about magic, power, and names, on Rose's giving Dragonfly her true name Irian, and on their conversations about Roke, mages, men and women. To support my ongoing work, go to my

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