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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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00:15:55

Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Three Modes Of Slighting...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/04/11

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about the three main modes of slighting (oligoria), the perception of which on the part of the angered person produces anger. These three modes are contempt (kataphronesis), spitefulness (epereasmos) and insult (hubris). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:12:00

Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Definition Of Anger -...

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2023/04/10

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about his complex definition of anger, which includes a number of elements including apparent slighting (oligoria) pain and pleasure desire (orexis) for retaliation (timoresis) slighting being against oneself or those connected to oneself the slighting being wrong, unjust, or

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00:12:46

Pascal Pensees - Criticism Of The Stoics - Sadler's...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/04/07

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the criticism he makes of the Stoics, naming Epictetus but also having in mind the neo-Stoics of his time. His criticism is that they are partly right, but miss where they've got things wrong and others have them right, which leads to a kind of onesidedness To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If

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00:15:10

Pascal Pensees - The Reasons Of The Heart - Sadler's...

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2023/04/06

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the "heart" and its relationship and distinction from reason in a human being. This is spurred specifically by the famous passage contained in section 277, that runs: "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct

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00:17:29

Pascal Pensees - The Three Orders: Flesh, The Mind,...

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2023/04/04

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his conception of the three orders, namely those of bodies or flesh, the mind and knowledge, and the will or love. There are people primarily focused on and oriented to the matters of each of these orders. The orders are incommensurable with each other, differing not only in object but also in value This is discussed primarily in

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00:13:31

Pascal Pensees - The Greatness And Misery Of Human...

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2023/04/03

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses two key aspects of human being, what he calls the greatness (grandeur) and the misery (misere). Pascal thinks that many people go astray by attending only to one of these aspects, without paying attention to the other. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct

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00:20:59

Pascal Pensees - The Power Of Imagination Over Reason...

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2023/04/01

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the power imagination exercises over the faculty of reason in human beings. Pascal thinks that imagination plays a much greater role in human affairs and matters, and that it isn't reasonable to give reason priority all of the time. This is discussed primarily in section 82 in the Brunschvicg edition. To support my ongoing work, go to

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00:15:21

Pascal Pensees - Differing Conceptions Of Justice -...

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2023/03/31

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses how human beings wind up with differing conceptions of what is just and unjust. Pascal notes that what is considered right or wrong, true or false, varies considerably from country to country. When we look for a universal natural law or the essence of justice, we don't find these in any particular society, and we tend to erode the power

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00:13:45

Pascal Pensees - The Infinite Sphere, Its...

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2023/03/29

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the passage in which he writes: "C’est une sphère infinie dont le centre est partout, la circonférence nulle part" (71, in the Léon Brunschvicg edition). As it turns out, this expression has a history, and Pascal also adds to the concepts involved in a few other passages. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:13:09

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - The Goodness or...

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2023/03/26

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 7 about the moral values - good or bad - of varieties of pleasures. Not all pleasures are the same in this respect. Aristotle distinguishes between pleasures (and pains) that have different values, examines the relationship between goodness absolutely and goodness for a particular person, and also discusses the "restorative"

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00:10:02

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Desirability of...

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2023/03/23

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion about why bodily pleasures are particularly desirable for the majority of human beings. He makes an argument that will later be reappropriated by John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, namely that bodily pleasures are those which most people are familiar with. He also distinguishes between more noble and more base pleasures, and discusses

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00:16:19

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethic Bk 7 - Virtue & Vice,...

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2023/03/22

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on passages early on in book 7, where he distinguishes and (at least for some of them) discusses six distinct moral states or conditions: superhuman virtue, virtue, self-control, lack of self-control, vice, and brutality. 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

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00:10:30

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Self-Restraint...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/20

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 7 about a good moral state, self-control or self-restraint (enkrateia). A person who is self-controlled knows what the right or good thing to do is, and does that, but has to struggle against their desire to do something else. This is the state opposed to akrasia, or lack/loss of self-control. Self-control is not the same state

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00:09:34

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Obstinacy,...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/19

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines the difference between self-restraint or control - which is a good moral state - and obstinacy or stubbornness. People who are obstinate are difficult to convince or persuade, and it is not because they actually know or understand the good and rationally stick with it against resistance or

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00:10:07

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Softness,...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/17

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about two states analogous to self-control (enkrateia) and lack/loss of self-control (akrasia) but dealing with aversion to pain, rather than desire for pleasure - endurance (karteia) and softness (malakia). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site -

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00:12:51

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Brutality and...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/16

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about the moral state called "theriotes" in Greek, typically translated as "brutality" or "bestiality" in English. This is a condition in which the higher, rational, part of the person is not just corrupted (as is the case in vice), but is either not present or not working in

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00:07:51

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - The Practical...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/15

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about the practical syllogism - a topic that remains murky and rather underdeveloped in Aristotle's work as a whole (and an object of controversy within the secondary literature). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like

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00:10:38

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Is Akrasia Due...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/13

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about whether a qualified forms of akrasia (lack or loss of self-control) stemming from anger (thumos) is better than akrasia proper, which has to do with lack or loss of self-control when faced with desire for physical pleasures. Aristotle does in fact think akrasia

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00:11:04

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Qualified Forms...

Sadler"s Lectures ·

2023/03/12

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about qualified forms of akrasia (lack or loss of self-control). Akrasia proper has to do with lack or loss of self-control when faced with desire for physical pleasures. Qualified forms of akrasia have to do with other goods, desires for which can cause a person to do

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00:13:28

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Knowledge,...

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2023/03/10

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines the connection between knowledge or opinion about the good and akrasia (lack or loss of self control). Is it possible for a person to do what they know or think to be something bad or wrong? A lack or loss of self-control would seem to imply that one does on some level understand the moral

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