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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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00:11:17

Robert Audi, Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business...

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2023/07/28

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business" It focuses specifically on his general overview about virtue ethics as a moral theory, looking at whether it can provide standards, what sort of standards it provides, and how it does so. 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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00:11:57

Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Concerns About...

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2023/07/26

This 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 To support my ongoing work, go to my

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00:18:51

Philip Dick, The Android And Human - State Order And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/25

This 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 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"). To support my

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00:16:59

Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Human Beings And...

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2023/07/24

This 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 the ways in which he thinks genuinely human beings (those who have not been reduced to androids) can be distinguished from androids. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd

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00:17:06

Philip Dick, The Android And Human - Reversibility,...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/23

This 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 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

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00:17:14

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Eucatastrophe,...

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2023/07/21

This 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

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00:11:42

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Escapes And...

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2023/07/19

This 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 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. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:14:53

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Escape's...

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2023/07/17

This 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. To

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00:14:36

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Recovery, Loss,...

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2023/07/16

This 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 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. To

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00:15:20

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Sub-Creators And...

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2023/07/14

This 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 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. To

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00:16:59

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Fantasy And The...

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2023/07/12

This 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 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 To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd

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00:15:46

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - The Cauldron Of...

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2023/07/11

This 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 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. 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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00:12:35

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Three Faces Of...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/10

This 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 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

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00:19:29

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Are Fairy Stories...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/09

This 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. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you

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00:16:31

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - Origins Of Fairy...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/06

This 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 theories about the origins of fairy stories, tackling what he considers to be the least important of the three questions he is focused upon. 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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00:14:17

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories - What Is A Fairy...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/05

This 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 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. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:17:50

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Remedies Against Anger...

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2023/07/04

This 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. 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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00:12:56

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Philosophy And One's...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/03

This 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). 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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00:11:48

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Analysing Things One...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/02

This 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. 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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00:12:54

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Finding Pleasure And...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/07/01

This 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 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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