Sadler's Lectures
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Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Syllogisms And Pure Ideas Of Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 09, 2024 16:50 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's discussion of the ideas or pure concept of reason, derived from his consideration of three main types of syllogisms (Verstandschlüsse): categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive. These correspond ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Peculiarity Of Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures
April 08, 2024 17:32 - 14 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Third Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How is metaphysics in general possible? Specifically this bears upon what is distinctive, specific, or peculiar to metaphysics by contrast to pure mathematics and pure natural science. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd li...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Phenomena And Noumena - Sadler's Lectures
April 05, 2024 16:39 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction between phenomena and noumena, that is things of sense or appearances, and beings of the understanding. Kant argues that we cannot have any determinate knowledge of the noumena, but we als...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Removing Hume's Doubt About Causality - Sadler's Lectures
April 03, 2024 15:18 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon Kant's situating himself in relation to his predecessor David Hume, who argues that we have no experience of causality as such, and that we can and should have doubts about the relationship between what w...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Principles Of Possible Experience - Sadler's Lectures
April 02, 2024 17:36 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what Kant calls "principles of possible experience". Principles (Grundsatze) are rules that are not determined by other rules, and these correspond to pure concepts of the understanding. Taken as a total...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Pure Concepts Of The Understanding - Sadler's Lectures
April 01, 2024 14:57 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon his exposition of what he identifies as pure concepts of the understanding (Verstandsbegriffe), which, as he tells us, make possible for us universal, objectively valid judgements. These correspond to the...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Judgements Of Perception And Experience - Sadler's Lectures
March 30, 2024 19:36 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon the distinction Kant makes between two kinds of judgements, those of perception (Wahrnehmungsurteile) and those of experience (Erfarhungsurteille). The latter involve the addition of pure concepts of the ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Nature And Pure Natural Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 29, 2024 19:42 - 15 minutes - 22.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Natural Science Possible? Specifically this bears upon what 'nature" means, what the extent and scope of pure natural science is, and an explanation of how pure natural science is possible. Kant argues that pure natural science cannot be cognition of things ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Avoiding Non-Critical Idealism - Sadler's Lectures
March 27, 2024 14:02 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.c...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Illusions Arise - Sadler's Lectures
March 25, 2024 13:45 - 15 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on Kant's defense of his own transcendental or critical idealism from accusations that he turns the spatio-temporal world of sense-experience into mere "illusion" (Schein). Kant explains how illusions do arise out of other philosophical positions and their key assumptions. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.c...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Sensibility, Representations, And Geometry - Sadler's Lectures
March 23, 2024 15:39 - 16 minutes - 23.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of geometry in particular, in the course of which he briefly examines geometric proofs resting on congruence and objects that may be the same in some respects but are not congruent, such as spherical triangles, mirror images of hands, and helixes. Kant argues that geometry, based on the pure intuition of space as a form ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Intuitions, Space, And Time - Sadler's Lectures
March 17, 2024 19:49 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussions of the a priori intuitions that are the basis for pure mathematics, namely space and time. These are the forms of empirical intuitions, preceding them logically, and they also provide geometry, arithmetic, and pure mechanics their bases. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - A Priori Intuitions - Sadler's Lectures
March 15, 2024 13:25 - 15 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion of the possibility of a priori intuition (Anschauung), which makes pure mathematics possible. Time and Space are such a priori intuitions, namely the forms of sensibility, the condition. for having empirical intuitions of objects. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Dogmatism, Skepticism, Metaphysics - Sadler's Lectures
March 13, 2024 12:56 - 13 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how and why his transcendental or critical philosophy takes metaphysics beyond two other sets of positions, those of dogmatism and skepticism To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - How Are Synthetic A Priori Cognitions Possible? - Sadler's Lectures
March 11, 2024 18:07 - 11 minutes - 16 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon what he takes to be a central problem that must be resolved if there is to be any genuine well-founded metaphysics, namely how it is that synthetic a priori cognitions (or judgements or propositions) are possible. To support my ongoing work...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Analytic And Synthetic Judgements - Sadler's Lectures
March 10, 2024 14:51 - 17 minutes - 26.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the distinction he makes between analytic and synthetic judgements. Analytic judgements do not add anything to our knowledge or understanding, though they can help us to clarify concepts. Synthetic judgements do add something new to our cogn...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Metaphysical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures
March 08, 2024 16:42 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of properly metaphysical judgements, cognitions, or propositions, namely that they are all synthetic a priori. This is what allows there to be any genuine advance in knowledge through metaphysics To support my ongoing work, go t...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Mathematical Judgements As Synthetic - Sadler's Lectures
March 07, 2024 15:25 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon the nature of mathematical judgements, properly speaking. Kant argues, against previous thinkers, that properly mathematical judgements are not analytic but synthetic a priori. There is still scope for analytic judgements within mathematic...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Differentiating Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 05, 2024 14:52 - 13 minutes - 19.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preamble on the peculiarities of all metaphysical knowledge, bearing upon how Metaphysics is to be differentiated as a science from other sciences. Kant tells us that there are three main differentiating factors, namely the object, the sources of cognition, and the kind of cognition. To support my ongoing work, ...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - The Prolegomena And The First Critique - Sadler's Lectures
March 04, 2024 18:50 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface that outlines the relationship between the Prolegomena and his earlier published Critique of Pure Reason. The Prolegomena as a work addresses some of the obscurity that Kant admits is present in the Critique, and is structured in an analytic rather than synthetic style of presentation To support my ongoin...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - David Hume's Spur To Kants Thinking - Sadler's Lectures
March 03, 2024 20:46 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in the Preface bearing upon how David Hume's critical examination of causality - the necessary connection between causes and effects - broke Kant's "dogmatic slumber" and spurred him to examine the possibility of metaphysics in a radical manner. This would lead to the work contained in the Critique of Pure Reason To su...
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena - Problems With Metaphysics As A Science - Sadler's Lectures
March 02, 2024 15:25 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work, The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Specifically it on his discussion in the Preface, in which he raises several problems with metaphysics of his time as a science. These include the lack of universal agreement or consensus, the advances of all the other sciences, and the lack of any settled criteria for the discipline. in Kant's view, it is time to ask the question whether metaphysics as a scienc...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Rachel Rosen, Nexus-6 Android
February 29, 2024 15:47 - 21 minutes - 31.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character Rachel Rosen, who is a rather unusual Nexus-6 Android owned directly by the Rosen Corporation. She interacts with Rick Deckard in a number of ways, with her motivations eventually becoming clear late in the novel. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism As Swindle And Truth
February 28, 2024 17:35 - 21 minutes - 30.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the expose by Buster Friendly of Mercer as a fraud and Mercerism as a "swindle", as well as how and why "nothing changes" as a result of this revelation. 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 - ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Mission Street Hall Of Justice
February 27, 2024 19:17 - 17 minutes - 25.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the fake, "android-infested" Hall of Justice located not on Lombard Street but on Mission Street, where Deckard is taken after he attempts to use the Voight-Kampff empathy test on Luba Luft. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a di...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Empathy And Antipathy Towards Androids
February 26, 2024 18:33 - 20 minutes - 26.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the emotional attitudes and responses that various characters in the novel have or develop towards androids. Androids lack the capacity for empathy and therefore do not exhibit it towards each other. Rick Decker find himself feeling empathy towards at least some androids. To support my ongoing w...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Mercerism And The Empathy Box
February 25, 2024 13:25 - 19 minutes - 28.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the religion and life philosophy of Mercerisim, centered around the figure of Wilbur Mercer, the practice of using empathy boxes, and the experience of fusion with Mercer and other minds while one uses the empathy box. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler I...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Voight-Kampff Test - Sadler's Lectures
February 23, 2024 13:08 - 22 minutes - 32.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Voight-Kampff Empathy Test used by bounty-hunters to distinguish between androids and humans. We cover how the test works, whether or not it is or remains a valid instrument, representative questions from the test, and who the test is given to in the course of the novel. To support my ongoi...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Kipple, Form-Destroying, And The Tomb-World
February 21, 2024 19:01 - 16 minutes - 23.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the various ways in which entropy and breakdown get articulated, experienced, and feared in the book. 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...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - John R. Isidore, Special - Sadler's Lectures
February 19, 2024 18:41 - 20 minutes - 29 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the character John R Isidore, who has been recently classified as a "special". He is ineligible for emigration to the colonies, lives by himself in an apartment building in the suburbs, and holds a job as a driver for a false/electric animal hospital. A number of the chapters of the novel focus ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Deckard's Six Android Bounties
February 17, 2024 14:01 - 19 minutes - 29.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the plot of the novel, namely that bounty hunter Rick Deckard has to track down and kill six dangerous androids masquerading as human beings, and likely to try to kill him. These are: Polokov, Garland, Luft, Stratton, and the two Batys To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.pat...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Real And Electric Animals - Sadler's Lectures
February 15, 2024 19:47 - 22 minutes - 32.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the importance animals have assumed for human beings in the post-war era, after the death of most animals. Empathy towards animals has become a major characteristic of human beings. Animals are also replicated in "electric" or mechanical forms To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - ...
Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Dialing Up Moods - Sadler's Lectures
February 14, 2024 17:46 - 14 minutes - 21.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the Penfield mood organ which people can use to deliberately induce moods, emotional states, and even outlooks and attitudes in themselves and others 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....
Aristotle - People Who Excel As Laws Unto Themselves - Sadler's Shorts
February 12, 2024 16:41 - 6 minutes - 6.79 MBThis is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Politics, where he raises the idea of a person who so clearly excels everyone else around them in virtue that it seems strange to have them governed by others. He suggests that such a person is a law unto themself, and that if you're fortunate enough to have such a person, they ought to be given authority. You can get Aristotle's Politics here - https://amzn.to/2LBsQTj The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevi...
Aristotle - Exercising Authority For The Good Of The Governed - Sadler's Shorts
February 11, 2024 21:48 - 5 minutes - 5.59 MBThis is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Politics, where he discusses how and why authority should be exercised for the genuine good of those who are governed. This is what most fundamentally distinguishes good regimes from bad regimes, according to Aristotle. We can apply this not only to political relations, but any sorts of situations where power is exercised by one or more people over others. You can get Aristotle's Politics here - https://amzn.to/2LBsQTj The...
Aristotle - Responsibility For Our Own Character - Sadler's Shorts
February 09, 2024 17:12 - 5 minutes - 6.2 MBThis is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses whether, and to what extent people are responsible for the character they develop and exhibit in their choices, habits, and actions You can get Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics here - http://amzn.to/2g9t0UU The faint music in the background is Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http:...
John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Attributing Anger To God - Sadler's Lectures
February 07, 2024 17:18 - 11 minutes - 17.3 MBThis lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on a common argument people make to excuse their own lapses into anger and bad temper, claiming that in Scripture God is said to get angry at people. Cassian's response is to point out that these passages are not to be taken literally, any more than are passages making other similar anthropomorphic claims about God. Instead, the...
John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Anger, Patience, And Solitude - Sadler's Lectures
February 06, 2024 13:37 - 13 minutes - 19.8 MBThis lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on Cassian's contention that unless one deals with the anger one feels and the reasons one ends up getting angry which have to do with one's own mindset, character, and thought processes, it doesn't do one any good to leave other people behind and go out into solitude. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.pat...
John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Rooting Out Anger Entirely - Sadler's Lectures
February 04, 2024 15:07 - 15 minutes - 22.1 MBThis lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on one of the main pieces of advice that Cassian provides in that book, namely that the vice of anger ought to be entirely rooted out from the soul of a human being. His first discussion of this takes place in chapter 1 To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct co...
John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - Not Retaining Anger - Sadler's Lectures
February 02, 2024 17:00 - 12 minutes - 18.3 MBThis lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on his advice that we ought to not retain anger once we begin feel the emotion, a theme that Cassian returns to at multiple points in the chapter. Specifically, we should not take the precept "let not the sun go down on your anger" as an excuse to retain anger for a given time-period To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreo...
Aristotle, Poetics - Fear, Pity, And Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures
January 31, 2024 17:24 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussions about the two emotions of pity (eleos) and fear (phobos), which Aristotle first mentions in his definition of tragedy. 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 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler...
Aristotle, Poetics - Character, Choice, And Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures
January 30, 2024 16:36 - 15 minutes - 23.3 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on Aristotle's discussion of character (ēthos), which he identifies as the second most important element or part of tragedy. He tells us: "Character is that which reveals moral choice - that is, when otherwise unclear, what kinds of thing an agent chooses or rejects (which is why speeches in which there is nothing at all the speaker chooses or rejects contain no character); while thought covers the pa...
Aristotle, Poetics - Different Modes Of Recognition - Sadler's Lectures
January 29, 2024 13:24 - 14 minutes - 21.3 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on the different modes of what Aristotle calls "recognition" (anagnōrisis), one of the key features of good plots in tragedy. He writes: "The definition of recognition was stated earlier. As for its kinds, first is the least artistic and the one used the most from uninventiveness: recognition through tokens....The second kind are those contrived by the poet, and hence inartistic. ... The third kind i...
John Cassian, Institutes Book 8 - When Anger Is Appropriate - Sadler's Lectures
January 27, 2024 17:25 - 13 minutes - 19.5 MBThis lecture discusses the late ancient monastic theologian, John Cassian's work Institutes of the Coenobia, book 8, "Of The Spirit of Anger". It focuses specifically on the only situations in which Cassian considers anger to be legitimate and useful, that is, anger against the bad dispositions within oneself. He discusses this in chapters 7-9. 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.pay...
Aristotle, Poetics - Reversal, Recognition, And Suffering - Sadler's Lectures
January 27, 2024 17:09 - 15 minutes - 22 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on three key aspects of good plots: reversal (peripeteia), recognition (anagnōrisis), and suffering (pathos). 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 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Aristotle's Poet...
Aristotle, Poetics - Plot, Structure, And Unity - Sadler's Lectures
January 26, 2024 15:37 - 13 minutes - 19.8 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussions of what he considers to be the most important part or aspect of tragedy, namely plot or story (mythos). Aristotle stresses that a good plot is complex, but forms a unity. 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 3000 philosophy videos in my ...
Aristotle, Poetics - Elements And Definitions Of Tragedy - Sadler's Lectures
January 24, 2024 23:42 - 19 minutes - 29.2 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on Aristotle's definition of tragedy, which runs: "Tragedy, then, is mimesis of an action which is elevated, complete, and of magnitude; in language embellished by distinct forms in its sections; employing the mode of enactment, not narrative; and through pity and fear accomplishing the catharsis a of such emotions. I use "embellished'' for language with rhythm and melody, and "distinct forms" for th...
Aristotle, Poetics - Three Distinctions In Mimesis - Sadler's Lectures
January 23, 2024 14:17 - 14 minutes - 21.1 MBThis lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on three key distinctions he brings up early on in the work, which bear upon different kinds of mimetic arts (including tragedy, comedy, epic, other poetry, and musical performances). The distinction is between the: Media of the mimetic work (en hois) Objects (or content) of the mimetic work (ha) Mode (or how) of the mimetic work (hōs) The six parts or elements of tragedy fall into this Diction and L...
Plato, Republic Book 10 - Poetry And Corruption of The Soul
January 21, 2024 22:23 - 11 minutes - 16.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 10. Specifically it examines his discussion of the dangers of poetry as a corrupter of the human soul 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 chan...
Plato, Republic Book 10 - Imitation. Poetry, And Parts Of The Soul
January 20, 2024 15:25 - 10 minutes - 15.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 10. Specifically it examines his discussion of the rational and irrational parts of the human soul, and the effects and appeals of imitative art, specifically poetry, upon those parts. 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.buymeacof...