Sadler's Lectures
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Anselm Of Canterbury, On Freedom Of Choice - Freedom Of Choice And Rectitude Of Will
March 31, 2021 13:58 - 10 minutes - 14.4 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 rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) and its relation with freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii). Anselm has the teacher and student in the dialogue sort through for possibilities for why rightness of wi...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Fredom Of Choice - What Freedom Of Choice Is - Sadler's Lectures
March 30, 2021 19:20 - 11 minutes - 15.3 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 early on in the work of what freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii) is, its connection with rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) and how it differs from other abilities (potestas) like the ability to sin or n...
Anselm Of Canterbury, On Fredom Of Choice - What Freedom Of Choice Is
March 30, 2021 19:20 - 11 minutes - 15.3 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 early on in the work of what freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii) is, its connection with rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) and how it differs from other abilities (potestas) like the ability to sin or n...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Rights Of Sovereigns - Sadler's Lectures
March 29, 2021 15:46 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapter 18, which enumerates the rights Hobbes argues must be granted to the authority he terms the "sovereign" in order to maintain a state of peace within civil society. 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....
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Commwealth, Covenant, And Subject - Sadler's Lectures
March 28, 2021 16:23 - 17 minutes - 25 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion in chapter 17 of the work, outlining how the political community Hobbes calls a "commonwealth" comes into existence, and how those contracting or covenanting with each other create an absolute authority in the sovereign. 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 -...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Commwealth, Covenant, And Subject
March 28, 2021 16:23 - 17 minutes - 25 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion in chapter 17 of the work, outlining how the political community Hobbes calls a "commonwealth" comes into existence, and how those contracting or covenanting with each other create an absolute authority in the sovereign. 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 -...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The Other Laws Of Nature - Sadler's Lectures
March 27, 2021 14:57 - 15 minutes - 22.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion in chapter 15 of the work, during which he sets out the other 12 laws of nature going beyond the first two. These moral norms outline how a rational human being who desires peace should behave within a commonwealth, and they correlate to virtues to be cultivated and vices to be avoided, according to Hobbes To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - w...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The Other Laws Of Nature
March 27, 2021 14:57 - 15 minutes - 22.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion in chapter 15 of the work, during which he sets out the other 12 laws of nature going beyond the first two. These moral norms outline how a rational human being who desires peace should behave within a commonwealth, and they correlate to virtues to be cultivated and vices to be avoided, according to Hobbes To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - w...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The First And Second Laws Of Nature
March 25, 2021 17:16 - 16 minutes - 23.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of the first two laws of nature in chapter 14. Natural laws are general rules worked out by reason, forbidding human beings from doing things destructive to their lives and commanding them to do what will preserve their lives 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...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The First And Second Laws Of Nature - Sadler's Lectures
March 25, 2021 17:16 - 16 minutes - 23.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of the first two laws of nature in chapter 14. Natural laws are general rules worked out by reason, forbidding human beings from doing things destructive to their lives and commanding them to do what will preserve their lives 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...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The State Of Nature And Conflict - Sadler's Lectures
March 24, 2021 00:48 - 16 minutes - 25 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his depiction in chapter 13 of the "state of nature" for human beings, which is a state of war of all against all. He also discusses the three main causes of human conflict: competition, diffidence or anticipation, and vanity. 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...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The State Of Nature And Conflict
March 24, 2021 00:48 - 16 minutes - 25 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his depiction in chapter 13 of the "state of nature" for human beings, which is a state of war of all against all. He also discusses the three main causes of human conflict: competition, diffidence or anticipation, and vanity. 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...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Manners, Desires, And Motivation
March 22, 2021 16:44 - 17 minutes - 26.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of "manners", that is human behavior and motivation, particularly what conduces to peace or war between human beings 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 ph...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Manners, Desires, And Motivation - Sadler's Lectures
March 22, 2021 16:44 - 17 minutes - 26.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of "manners", that is human behavior and motivation, particularly what conduces to peace or war between human beings 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 ph...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Power, Value, And Honor
March 21, 2021 18:52 - 16 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of chapter 10, titled "Of Power, Worth, Dignity, and Worthiness", in which Hobbes sets out his views on what each of these mean, how they are interconnected, and their implications for moral psychology, ethics, and political theory. 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 ...
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Power, Value, And Honor - Sadler's Lectures
March 21, 2021 18:52 - 16 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion of chapter 10, titled "Of Power, Worth, Dignity, and Worthiness", in which Hobbes sets out his views on what each of these mean, how they are interconnected, and their implications for moral psychology, ethics, and political theory. 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 ...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Laws, Actions, And Punishments
March 21, 2021 00:55 - 17 minutes - 25.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion about how he views the purpose and functions of laws and punishments, and what the implications of the "doctrine of necessity" are for those. 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 - ...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Necessity, Motive, And Volition
March 19, 2021 15:03 - 15 minutes - 23.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion about how what he calls the "doctrine of necessity" applies to human motives, volitions, and actions. 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 ...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Rejection Of Divine Occasionalism
March 17, 2021 21:49 - 13 minutes - 19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his examination and rejection of the occasionalist doctrine, most famously articulated by Nicolas Malebranche, which makes God the direct cause of all phenomena 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 BuyMeACoffe...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - God, Evil, And Necessity
March 15, 2021 23:46 - 13 minutes - 19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion of the problem of evil, namely whether - given what he calls the "doctrine of necessity - God is responsible for the evil or bad actions human beings do. 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 Buy...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Uniformity Of Human Nature
March 15, 2021 00:50 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on Hume's assertion that we can understand and predict human actions based on general motives because human nature is the same across times and cultures 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.buy...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - The Doctrine Of Necessity
March 13, 2021 23:20 - 13 minutes - 19.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on what Hume calls the "doctrine of necessity" 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 YouTube channel - www.youtube...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Possible Source Of Idea Of Power
March 12, 2021 01:12 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on where we get our conception of power or cause from. Hume considers whether we could get this notion from observing material bodies and their interactions, the interaction between our minds and our bodies, or the operations of the mind, specifically the will. He rejects each of these and says that it comes instead from our custom or habit of e...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Probability Of Chance And Causes
March 11, 2021 01:16 - 15 minutes - 23 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on discussion in section 6 about what probability really means in relation to how we human beings imagine chance and causality at work 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/A4q...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Belief And The Association Of Ideas
March 09, 2021 15:23 - 14 minutes - 21.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on how the three main modes of association of ideas - resemblance, contiguity in space and time, and cause and effect (or constant conjunction) lead us to have the feeling or sentiment of belief. 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...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - The Feeling Of Belief
March 07, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 21.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on what distinguishes what goes on in our belief that something is the case or is real, from the workings of the imagination or fancy. In Hume's view the key difference is that belief is accompanied by a feeling or sentiment associated with it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a di...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - The Principle Of Custom Or Habit
March 03, 2021 23:34 - 16 minutes - 25 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the principle that allows us to step beyond the confines of present sense-perception and past memory in "matters of fact" or "real existence". This is the principle of custom or habit, which inclines us to assume that the future will resemble the past. This principle, for Hume, lies at the basis of our association of ideas along the lines of...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Experience And Cause And Effect
March 02, 2021 15:44 - 15 minutes - 22.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his contention that we cannot know causes and effects in any a priori way (or as a relation between ideas), but only through experience, that is, in a posteriori manners. 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...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Relations Of Ideas And Matters Of Fact
February 28, 2021 16:09 - 13 minutes - 19.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact, which plays a central role in his 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/A4quYdWoM You can find ov...
David Hume, Inquiry Regarding Human Understanding - The Shade Of Blue Example
February 26, 2021 17:59 - 11 minutes - 17.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the exception he makes to his general rule that ideas must come in some way from experience, the famous "missing shade of blue" example. 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.co...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Association Of Ideas
February 25, 2021 20:24 - 16 minutes - 23.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the three main ways in which Hume thinks that ideas are associated within the human mind - Resemblance, Contiguity, and Cause and Effect 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...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Empiricism, Ideas, And Impressions
February 24, 2021 21:02 - 13 minutes - 20.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the basics of his Empiricist epistemology, specifically how it bears upon the relation between ideas and impressions. 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...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Impressions And Ideas Of The Mind
February 23, 2021 20:53 - 14 minutes - 21.1 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his important distinction between what he terms ideas and impressions of the mind. Many ideas are in some way copies or representations of the impressions we experience. 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...
Seneca, Letter 120 - Clarifying The Virtues - Sadler's Lectures
February 21, 2021 01:46 - 21 minutes - 31.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 120 It focuses specifically on the Stoic perspective that holds virtue to be the genuine good for human beings, by contrast to other points of view that assert there are other genuine goods. He also examines where our conception of virtue and moral goodness (the honestum) come from, and argues that it does not arise in us from nature itself, but rather through "analogy", drawn fr...
Seneca, Letter 113 - Virtue, Life, And Unity Of The Mind - Sadler's Lectures
February 20, 2021 01:26 - 16 minutes - 23.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 113 It focuses specifically on his discussions of a common Stoic position which he himself considers mistaken - the notion that the virtues (wisdom, justice, courage, temperance) are themselves living creatures (animalia) within the mind (animus). He presents and criticizes two common Stoic arguments for this position, and then provides a number of arguments of his own against th...
Seneca, Letter 89 - Divisions Of Philosophy - Sadler's Lectures
February 18, 2021 18:19 - 18 minutes - 28.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 89 It focuses specifically what had by his time become a common way of dividing the discipline of philosophy - into Ethics, Physics, and Logic. He explains what each of these fields includes. He also discusses why other schools attempts to add more divisions or to get rid of one or two of the three divisions. The three fields can be subdivided further, and his treatment of Eth...
Seneca, Letter 87 - The Simple Life - Sadler's Lectures
February 18, 2021 01:34 - 22 minutes - 32.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 87 It focuses specifically on the Stoic perspective on wealth (including property and possessions), which is that it is not actually a good, but rather just a preferred indifferent. He examines a number of Stoic and other syllogisms aimed at arguing that wealth is not a good, and provides further explanations of them. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patre...
Seneca, Letter 74 - Virtue And Goods
February 13, 2021 00:18 - 19 minutes - 28.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 74 It focuses specifically on his discussion of the nature of virtue according to the Stoics, and why virtue is the genuine good, the "honorable" (honestum). According to him, those who view other things like wealth, pleasure, honor, or the body as goods are mistaken and set themselves up for misery by subjecting themselves to fortune. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreo...
Seneca, Letter 74 - Virtue And Goods - Sadler's Lectures
February 13, 2021 00:18 - 19 minutes - 28.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 74 It focuses specifically on his discussion of the nature of virtue according to the Stoics, and why virtue is the genuine good, the "honorable" (honestum). According to him, those who view other things like wealth, pleasure, honor, or the body as goods are mistaken and set themselves up for misery by subjecting themselves to fortune. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreo...
Seneca, Letter 71 - The Supreme Good
February 11, 2021 21:59 - 18 minutes - 27 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 71 It focuses specifically on his discussion of the supreme or highest good for human beings, which is what is honorable (honestum), or virtue. Virtue is what renders other things that are good, good - like good actions, good people, and so on. He also discusses a Stoic paradox, namely that all goods, insofar as they are good, are equal - and how virtue provides a measure for e...
Seneca, Letter 71 - The Supreme Good - Sadler's Lectures
February 11, 2021 21:59 - 18 minutes - 27 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 71 It focuses specifically on his discussion of the supreme or highest good for human beings, which is what is honorable (honestum), or virtue. Virtue is what renders other things that are good, good - like good actions, good people, and so on. He also discusses a Stoic paradox, namely that all goods, insofar as they are good, are equal - and how virtue provides a measure for e...
Seneca, Letter 66 - Virtue And Kinds Of Goods - Sadler's Lectures
February 09, 2021 15:12 - 21 minutes - 31.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 66 It discusses how two key Stoic ideas about virtue and goods come together. One of these is the paradoxical assertion that all goods are equal, and the other is that there are three kinds of goods. Seneca addresses this by arguing that virtue is the highest good which makes other things good, that virtue as such is always equal, never greater or lesser, and that the circumstanc...
Seneca, Letter 65 - Platonic, Aristotelian, And Stoic Causes - Sadler's Lectures
February 08, 2021 13:25 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 65 It focuses specifically on his discussions of the types of causes understood from Stoic, Aristotelian, and Platonic perspectives. Seneca enumerates the four Aristotelian causes - material, efficient, formal, and final and adds to these the Platonic model or exemplar. From the Stoic perspective, none of these, except for the efficient cause - understood as the productive reaso...
Seneca, Letter 58 - Types Of Being - Sadler's Lectures
February 07, 2021 01:32 - 16 minutes - 23.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 58 It discusses several important issues in metaphysics, spurred by considering 6 different types of things Plato is said to have considered to be beings or to have being. Seneca begins with some considerations about the Latin and Greek languages, about about the terms essentia, ousia, to on, and quod est, and then discusses what genera and species are, and how they are arranged ...
Seneca, Letter 33 - Stoicism, System, And Maxims - Sadler's Lectures
February 05, 2021 20:39 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 33 It focuses specifically on his response to Lucilius, who is asking him for maxims, or what we would nowadays call quotes or sound bites - short and catchy passages from Stoic texts that could be memorized as summaries of the doctrine. Seneca views Stoicism as a systematic philosophy, unable to be summed up in maxims, and provides several reasons why - although maxims are suita...
Plato, The Meno - Knowledge And Right Opinion - Sadler's Lectures
February 05, 2021 01:28 - 16 minutes - 14.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Meno. It focuses specifically on the distinction which Socrates makes there - as well as in other works - between Knowledge and Right Opinion 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 m...
Plato, The Meno - Can Virtue Be Taught? - Sadler's Lectures
February 02, 2021 16:29 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Meno. It focuses specifically on his discussion in the second half of the dialogue bearing on whether virtue can be taught - and if so, who actually does teach it. 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 phil...
Plato, The Meno - Goods, Knowledge, And Desire
January 31, 2021 15:53 - 21 minutes - 25.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Meno. Through a close reading of the text, this lecture brings together a number of passages treating several common themes -- what makes good things good for us, our desires for good or bad things, and the knowledge or wisdom we possess. 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...
Plato, The Meno - The Doctrine Of Recollection - Sadler's Lectures
January 30, 2021 17:35 - 12 minutes - 10.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Meno. It focuses specifically on. the Platonic doctrine of recollection as discussed by Socrates 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 - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.yo...
Plato, The Meno - The Meno Paradox - Sadler's Lectures
January 28, 2021 00:59 - 10 minutes - 8.93 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Meno. It focuses specifically on the famous conundrum called the Meno Paradox, which maintains that a person cannot seek to acquire knowledge of something they do not already know. 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 fi...