Sadler's Lectures
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Plato, Symposium - Love, Music, And Medicine (Eryximachus) - Sadler's Lectures
May 26, 2021 19:54 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the speech made by Eryximachus. It focuses on his discussion of how his conception of (good) Love as something like an agreement between opposites plays out not only in his art of Medicine, but also in Music. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patre...
Plato, Symposium - Healthy And Diseased Love (Eryximachus) - Sadler's Lectures
May 25, 2021 17:13 - 13 minutes - 11 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the speech made by Eryximachus. It focuses on his distinction between healthy and diseased Love in the body. 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/Reaso...
Plato, Symposium - Paradoxes Of Love (Pausanius) - Sadler's Lectures
May 24, 2021 14:08 - 13 minutes - 10.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the speech made by Pausanius. It focuses on the seeming paradoxes arising with love - particularly on the moral status of love as a feeling and the actions characteristically connected with it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ...
Plato, Symposium - Laws And The Love Of Youth (Pausanius) - Sadler's Lectures
May 23, 2021 17:02 - 20 minutes - 15.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on Pausanius' discussion in his speech about different legal and cultural approaches to male-male sexual relationships, particularly those falling under the rubric of "pederastia" (love of youths) To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler I...
Plato, Symposium - Heavenly And Earthly Love (Pausanius) - Sadler's Lectures
May 22, 2021 14:07 - 12 minutes - 9.85 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on Pausanius' distinction made in his speech between two different kinds of love or Eros, an earthly, common love and a heavenly, noble love 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 s...
Plato, Symposium - Heavenly And Earthly Love (Pausanius)
May 22, 2021 14:07 - 12 minutes - 9.85 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on Pausanius' distinction made in his speech between two different kinds of love or Eros, an earthly, common love and a heavenly, noble love 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 s...
Plato, Symposium - Is The Lover Or Beloved Greater? (Phaedrus) - Sadler's Lectures
May 20, 2021 15:54 - 12 minutes - 9.68 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on an issue arising in Phaedrus' speech - whether the lover or the beloved, i.e. the person feeling love or the object of love, is "greater". 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 ...
Plato, Symposium - Love, Nobility, And Virtue (Phaedrus) - Sadler's Lectures
May 20, 2021 02:18 - 14 minutes - 11.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the claim made in Phaedrus' speech that Love brings out the finest in human beings by turning them towards nobility and 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 - w...
Plato, Symposium - How And Why Love Should Be Praised - Sadler's Lectures
May 18, 2021 17:18 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on why the characters decide to praise love, and even more importantly how and whether they do in fact praise love in their speeches. 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 ...
Plato, Symposium - Style And Content Of The Character's Speeches - Sadler's Lectures
May 17, 2021 15:53 - 16 minutes - 13.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture provides an overview of the style and content of the speeches, discussing how the speeches reflect the character types of the interlocutors 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...
Plato, Symposium - The Narrative Framework Of The Symposium
May 16, 2021 21:20 - 13 minutes - 11.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the complex narrative structure of the work, which includes some stories within the story, and several levels of narration 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.pa...
Franz Kafka, In The Penal Colony - The Explorer's Verdict - Sadler's Lectures
May 16, 2021 01:23 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century novelist and short story writer, Franz Kafka, "In The Penal Colony" It focuses specifically on the explorer's verdict and reasoned judgement upon the mode of justice and execution, the machine that inscribes the imperative a prisoner has violated upon their body. The officer attempts to get the explorer on his side by explaining the workings of the machine and the intentions behind it, but the explorer makes his condemnation...
Franz Kafka, In The Penal Colony - The Machine As Inscribing Justice - Sadler's Lectures
May 14, 2021 14:06 - 18 minutes - 26 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century novelist and short story writer, Franz Kafka, "In The Penal Colony" It focuses specifically on the "machine" at the center of the story, a device designed to inscribe a prisoner's offense upon their body as a way of imposing the old commandant's and the officer's conception of justice upon them. 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...
Franz Kafka, In The Penal Colony - Justice In The Penal Colony - Sadler's Lectures
May 13, 2021 12:50 - 19 minutes - 28 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century novelist and short story writer, Franz Kafka, "In The Penal Colony" It focuses specifically on the differing conceptions of justice and injustice at play 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 - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy vi...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Early Christian Care Of The Self - Sadler's Lectures
May 11, 2021 20:35 - 16 minutes - 24.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on the continuities and changes in how early Christians understood self-knowledge and the care of the self. He identifies two main sets of practices - exomologesis and exagoreusis - and explains what they consist in and how they were understood and applied To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler ...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Stoic Care Of The Self - Sadler's Lectures
May 10, 2021 20:36 - 23 minutes - 36.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on the various technologies of the self developed for the care of the self b y members of the Stoic school of philosophy. 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/A...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Hellenistic And Roman Care Of The Self
May 09, 2021 20:17 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on several aspects of Hellenistic and Roman Imperial era approaches to the care of the self. 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 15...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Socratic And Platonic Care Of The Self
May 08, 2021 23:37 - 19 minutes - 29 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on his analysis - based on the platonic texts, Apology and Alcibiades - of key features and elements of the Socratic and Platonic care for the self 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...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Care Of The Self And Knowing Oneself
May 07, 2021 20:35 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on the interplay between two precepts connected with technologies of the self in the West - take care of your self (epimeleisthai seautou) and know oneself (gnothi seauton). According to Foucault, philosophy practiced and understood as a way of life in ancient times tended to prioritize the first, but modern and contemporary though...
Michel Foucault, Technologies Of The Self - Four Types Of Technology - Sadler's Lectures
May 06, 2021 18:22 - 18 minutes - 26.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "Technologies of the Self" It focuses specifically on the four types of technology he distinguishes early on in the work - those of production, sign-systems, power, and the self. 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.buymeacoffe...
Julian The Emperor, Oration 6 - Cynicism, Discipline, And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures
May 05, 2021 15:13 - 18 minutes - 27.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the ancient philosopher and ruler, Julian the Emperor (also known as Julian the Apostate), Oration 6, "To The Uneducated Cynics". It focuses specifically on Julian's conception of what the genuine Cynic life looks like, namely a life of self-discipline, aimed at virtue, wisdom, and happiness. By contrast, many of the "Cynics" of his time are, according to Julian, off-base in their attention-seeking behavior. To support my ongoing work, go ...
Julian The Emperor, Oration 6 - Cynicism As Universal Philosophy - Sadler's Lectures
May 04, 2021 21:39 - 11 minutes - 16.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the ancient philosopher and ruler, Julian the Emperor (also known as Julian the Apostate), Oration 6, "To The Uneducated Cynics". It focuses specifically on his assertion that Cynicism, properly understood, is really a universal philosophy. This would take it beyond the distinctive boundaries of the Cynic school and its practitioners or adherents of his time To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you...
Julian The Emperor, Oration 6 - What Philosophy Is - Sadler's Lectures
May 03, 2021 21:32 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the ancient philosopher and ruler, Julian the Emperor (also known as Julian the Apostate), Oration 6, "To The Uneducated Cynics". It focuses specifically on Julian's explanation of what in his view philosophy is and ought to be. He has in mind not only the philosophical school or movement of Cynicism, but also various Platonic, Aristotelian, Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic schools and movements. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon s...
Plato, The Ion - Poetry And Divine Inspiration - Sadler's Lectures
May 02, 2021 15:18 - 14 minutes - 12.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art. It focuses specifically on Socrates' theory about Poetry expressed there, namely that the Poets (and also their interpreters, the Rhapsodes, like Ion) don't actually possess and work from knowledge, but rather are divinely possessed or inspired. Socrates sets out an analogy -- the action of the god on the poet, and the poet on the audience ...
Plato, The Ion - Poetry And Divine Inspiriation
May 02, 2021 15:18 - 14 minutes - 12.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art. It focuses specifically on Socrates' theory about Poetry expressed there, namely that the Poets (and also their interpreters, the Rhapsodes, like Ion) don't actually possess and work from knowledge, but rather are divinely possessed or inspired. Socrates sets out an analogy -- the action of the god on the poet, and the poet on the audience ...
Plato, The Ion - Do Poets Possess Knowledge?
May 01, 2021 15:20 - 10 minutes - 9.19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art. It focuses specifically on the question whether poets (or their interpreters, the rhapsodes) really possess knowledge about the matters they write and speak about in their works. 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/ReasonI...
Plato, The Ion - Do Poets Possess Knowledge? - Sadler's Lectures
May 01, 2021 15:20 - 10 minutes - 9.19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art. It focuses specifically on the question whether poets (or their interpreters, the rhapsodes) really possess knowledge about the matters they write and speak about in their works. 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/ReasonI...
Plato, The Ion - Speaking Well And Subject-Matters - Sadler's Lectures
April 30, 2021 17:08 - 11 minutes - 8.94 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art. It focuses specifically on the implications of what Socrates calls "speaking well" or "speaking poorly" (i.e. as someone with expertise) for the question of who possesses knowledge in that dialogue. 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 - w...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Morality, Philosophy, And Life - Sadler's Lectures
April 28, 2021 19:01 - 21 minutes - 30 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on morality, about which he evinces considerable skepticism. 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 1500 philosophy videos in m...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Approaches To Death - Sadler's Lectures
April 27, 2021 18:20 - 12 minutes - 18.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his examination of the fear or anxiety we human beings have about death, the relationship between philosophy and death, and how we might approach death 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 -...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Philosophy And Logic - Sadler's Lectures
April 26, 2021 00:43 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on the usefulness and the scope of logic, argumentation, and dialectic, and why philosophy should not allow itself to be too closely connected with logic. 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 B...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Nietzsche And Dostoevsky - Sadler's Lectures
April 24, 2021 20:28 - 20 minutes - 29.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on what he has to say in that work about these two important early existentialists, Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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/A4quYd...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Writers, Creativity, And Literature - Sadler's Lectures
April 23, 2021 19:35 - 21 minutes - 30.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on creativity, creative work, writers, and literature. 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 1500 philosophy videos in my main Yo...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Contingency And Groundlessness - Sadler's Lectures
April 22, 2021 19:02 - 20 minutes - 28.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his treatments of radical contingency and of "groundlessness", including how we might approach both of them philosophically 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/A4quYd...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Philosophy's Real Task - Sadler's Lectures
April 21, 2021 17:24 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on what the genuine tasks and functions of philosophy ought to be. These will be at odds with much of what gets called "philosophy" in the present. 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 BuyMeACo...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Sequence, Consequence, And Causality - Sadler's Lectures
April 20, 2021 19:26 - 22 minutes - 32.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his critical stance towards conceptions of causality, or what he calls the "law of sequence", both in natural phenomena, and in the development of creative and intellectual persons' works and systems. 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 her...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Ultimate Realities And Questions
April 19, 2021 14:25 - 18 minutes - 26.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on whether or not we in the present - or people in the past - can get to ultimate realities, or frame and resolve the most important questions of life, or not, and why this is the case. He also discusses what we can do as we face these inescapable questions To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sa...
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible - Ultimate Realities And Questions - Sadler's Lectures
April 19, 2021 14:25 - 18 minutes - 26.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and social critic, Lev Shestov's work All Things Are Possible It focuses specifically on his views on whether or not we in the present - or people in the past - can get to ultimate realities, or frame and resolve the most important questions of life, or not, and why this is the case. He also discusses what we can do as we face these inescapable questions To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sa...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - The Negro And Hegel - Sadler's Lectures
April 17, 2021 21:52 - 22 minutes - 34 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on his discussion of the complex Hegelian conception of Recognition (Anerkennen) in the section of chapter 8 titled "The Negro and Hegel". Fanon critically interprets Hegel's conception of self-consciousness, its relation to its other, and the master-slave dialectic. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.p...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - Past, Future, And Action - Sadler's Lectures
April 16, 2021 15:45 - 18 minutes - 27 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on his discussions in the middle of the work and towards the end, bearing upon how to move forward in the present and the future, which requires clarifying one's relationship with, and the relevance of the past and of history. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make ...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - Psychoanalysis, Racism, And Culture
April 15, 2021 14:17 - 29 minutes - 43.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on his critical engagements with psychoanalytic theory in the work, including discussions of Freud, Jung, Adler, Lacan, Manonni, Guex, and others. Fanon also sets out what a sufficiently attentive psychoanalysis would look like and accomplish To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - What Language Reveals - Sadler's Lectures
April 14, 2021 16:15 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on his discussions of the roles language and dialect plays in black-white relations, examined in the first chapter of 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.buymea...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - Particularity And Universality - Sadler's Lectures
April 13, 2021 16:58 - 19 minutes - 30.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on the interplay or dialectic between Fanon's analysis as oriented by particular situations and its extension to more universal dynamics 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 - w...
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks - The Overall Approach And Argument - Sadler's Lectures
April 12, 2021 14:12 - 22 minutes - 34.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic Frantz Fanon's work Black Skin, White Masks It focuses specifically on on the overall approach and argument made within the work. Fanon frames his work as a psychoanalytic one, drawing upon critical engagements with psychoanalytic theory, existentialism, literature, and lived experience. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a dire...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Five Kinds Of Freedom Of Choice
April 08, 2021 19:02 - 8 minutes - 12.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on his discussion in the last chapter of the work, in which he distinguishes between five different kinds or modes of freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Will As Instrument And Use
April 07, 2021 21:30 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on the distinction that he makes between two different senses of "will" (voluntas). One of these is will-as-instrument, or as the faculty of the will. The other is will-as-use, the act or willing, or the use of that instrument or faculty. ...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Willing To Abandon Rectitude Of Will
April 05, 2021 21:53 - 11 minutes - 16.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on his discussion of how a person who possesses rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) can abandon that rectitude. According to Anselm, a person cannot be forced to do so, although they can be placed in a situation of forced c...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Servitude To Sin - Sadler's Lectures
April 02, 2021 20:55 - 11 minutes - 16.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on his discussion of what he calls "slavery to sin", i.e. the inability to not sin or do wrong in a person, when rectitude of will is missing from their will. The question he is grappling with is how a person, while being free, can make them...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Why God Cannot Take Away Rectitude of Will
April 02, 2021 00:59 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on his argument bearing upon why God cannot take away rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) from a person who possesses it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a d...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Why God Cannot Take Away Freedom Of Choice
April 02, 2021 00:59 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and Benedictine monk Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil) It focuses specifically on his argument bearing upon why God cannot take away rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) from a person who possesses it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a d...