Sadler's Lectures
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Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Calmness or Mildness And Discharging Anger - Sadler's Lectures
April 24, 2023 14:02 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about a dynamic he identifies, where a person who is angry with one person may become less so, or entirely calm, when they discharge or expend their anger against another person To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct con...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Definition Of Calmness Or Mildness - Sadler's Lectures
April 22, 2023 15:30 - 11 minutes - 16.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 defining the emotion of calmness or mildness (praōtēs), which is a quieting or appeasing of anger, and can be understood by its opposition to anger. 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...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - People One Gets Angry Before - Sadler's Lectures
April 18, 2023 16:37 - 13 minutes - 19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about the people in whose presence one becomes angrier when one is or gets angry. These include people one considers rivals, those one respects, those one desires to be respected by, those they admire, and those they wish to be admired by To support my ongoing work, go to my Pat...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - People One Gets Angrier With - Sadler's Lectures
April 15, 2023 19:48 - 17 minutes - 23.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about the people Aristotle identifies as those other people typically not only get angry with, but even get angrier with. In some of these cases, he discusses why the response of anger is more intense. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Anger Over Matters One Values - Sadler's Lectures
April 14, 2023 19:16 - 12 minutes - 18.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about one dynamic Aristotle points out, namely that people get angry not only at slighting they perceive as directed at them or those people they care about, but also things and even abstractions that they value. Even more interesting, they become angrier, according to Aristotle,...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Three Modes Of Slighting - Sadler's Lectures
April 11, 2023 19:08 - 15 minutes - 22.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about the three main modes of slighting (oligoria), the perception of which on the part of the angered person produces anger. These three modes are contempt (kataphronesis), spitefulness (epereasmos) and insult (hubris). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.p...
Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 2 - Definition Of Anger - Sadler's Lectures
April 10, 2023 20:01 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and examines his discussion in book 2 about his complex definition of anger, which includes a number of elements including apparent slighting (oligoria) pain and pleasure desire (orexis) for retaliation (timoresis) slighting being against oneself or those connected to oneself the slighting being wrong, unjust, or inap...
Pascal Pensees - Criticism Of The Stoics - Sadler's Lectures
April 07, 2023 13:33 - 12 minutes - 18.5 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the criticism he makes of the Stoics, naming Epictetus but also having in mind the neo-Stoics of his time. His criticism is that they are partly right, but miss where they've got things wrong and others have them right, which leads to a kind of onesidedness To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadle...
Pascal Pensees - The Reasons Of The Heart - Sadler's Lectures
April 06, 2023 16:41 - 15 minutes - 22.7 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the "heart" and its relationship and distinction from reason in a human being. This is spurred specifically by the famous passage contained in section 277, that runs: "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point". To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct...
Pascal Pensees - The Three Orders: Flesh, The Mind, and Love - Sadler's Lectures
April 04, 2023 22:33 - 17 minutes - 25.1 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses his conception of the three orders, namely those of bodies or flesh, the mind and knowledge, and the will or love. There are people primarily focused on and oriented to the matters of each of these orders. The orders are incommensurable with each other, differing not only in object but also in value This is discussed primarily i...
Pascal Pensees - The Greatness And Misery Of Human Being - Sadler's Lectures
April 03, 2023 18:13 - 13 minutes - 20.1 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses two key aspects of human being, what he calls the greatness (grandeur) and the misery (misere). Pascal thinks that many people go astray by attending only to one of these aspects, without paying attention to the other. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contr...
Pascal Pensees - The Power Of Imagination Over Reason - Sadler's Lectures
April 01, 2023 20:12 - 20 minutes - 31.3 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the power imagination exercises over the faculty of reason in human beings. Pascal thinks that imagination plays a much greater role in human affairs and matters, and that it isn't reasonable to give reason priority all of the time. This is discussed primarily in section 82 in the Brunschvicg edition. To support my ongoing work, ...
Pascal Pensees - Differing Conceptions Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures
March 31, 2023 21:13 - 15 minutes - 22.1 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses how human beings wind up with differing conceptions of what is just and unjust. Pascal notes that what is considered right or wrong, true or false, varies considerably from country to country. When we look for a universal natural law or the essence of justice, we don't find these in any particular society, and we tend to erode the...
Pascal Pensees - The Infinite Sphere, Its Circumference, And Its Center - Sadler's Lectures
March 29, 2023 17:57 - 13 minutes - 20.1 MBThis lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. Specifically it discusses the passage in which he writes: "C’est une sphère infinie dont le centre est partout, la circonférence nulle part" (71, in the Léon Brunschvicg edition). As it turns out, this expression has a history, and Pascal also adds to the concepts involved in a few other passages. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.pa...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - The Goodness or Badness of Pleasure - Sadler's Lectures
March 26, 2023 17:39 - 13 minutes - 10.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 7 about the moral values - good or bad - of varieties of pleasures. Not all pleasures are the same in this respect. Aristotle distinguishes between pleasures (and pains) that have different values, examines the relationship between goodness absolutely and goodness for a particular person, and also discusses the "restorati...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Desirability of Bodily Pleasures - Sadler's Lectures
March 23, 2023 15:21 - 10 minutes - 8.09 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion about why bodily pleasures are particularly desirable for the majority of human beings. He makes an argument that will later be reappropriated by John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, namely that bodily pleasures are those which most people are familiar with. He also distinguishes between more noble and more base pleasures, and di...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethic Bk 7 - Virtue & Vice, Brutality & Heroic Virtue, Akrasia & Self-Control
March 22, 2023 14:47 - 16 minutes - 21 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on passages early on in book 7, where he distinguishes and (at least for some of them) discusses six distinct moral states or conditions: superhuman virtue, virtue, self-control, lack of self-control, vice, and brutality. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can ...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Self-Restraint (Enkrateia)- Sadler's Lectures
March 20, 2023 18:57 - 10 minutes - 8.53 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on his discussion in book 7 about a good moral state, self-control or self-restraint (enkrateia). A person who is self-controlled knows what the right or good thing to do is, and does that, but has to struggle against their desire to do something else. This is the state opposed to akrasia, or lack/loss of self-control. Self-control is not the same...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Obstinacy, Stubbornness, and Self-Restraint - Sadler's Lectures
March 19, 2023 21:40 - 9 minutes - 7.78 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines the difference between self-restraint or control - which is a good moral state - and obstinacy or stubbornness. People who are obstinate are difficult to convince or persuade, and it is not because they actually know or understand the good and rationally stick with it against resistance ...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Softness, Endurance, and Pain - Sadler's Lectures
March 17, 2023 19:05 - 10 minutes - 8.44 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about two states analogous to self-control (enkrateia) and lack/loss of self-control (akrasia) but dealing with aversion to pain, rather than desire for pleasure - endurance (karteia) and softness (malakia). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Brutality and Morbid Dispositions - Sadler's Lectures
March 16, 2023 16:40 - 12 minutes - 10.3 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about the moral state called "theriotes" in Greek, typically translated as "brutality" or "bestiality" in English. This is a condition in which the higher, rational, part of the person is not just corrupted (as is the case in vice), but is either not present or not work...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - The Practical Syllogism and Human Action - Sadler's Lectures
March 15, 2023 19:15 - 7 minutes - 6.38 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about the practical syllogism - a topic that remains murky and rather underdeveloped in Aristotle's work as a whole (and an object of controversy within the secondary literature). To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Is Akrasia Due To Anger Better? - Sadler's Lectures
March 13, 2023 18:36 - 10 minutes - 8.59 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about whether a qualified forms of akrasia (lack or loss of self-control) stemming from anger (thumos) is better than akrasia proper, which has to do with lack or loss of self-control when faced with desire for physical pleasures. Aristotle does in fact think akr...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Qualified Forms Of Akrasia - Sadler's Lectures
March 12, 2023 16:55 - 11 minutes - 9.05 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion in book 7 about qualified forms of akrasia (lack or loss of self-control). Akrasia proper has to do with lack or loss of self-control when faced with desire for physical pleasures. Qualified forms of akrasia have to do with other goods, desires for which can cause a perso...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Knowledge, Opinion, and Akrasia - Sadler's Lectures
March 10, 2023 23:22 - 13 minutes - 10.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines the connection between knowledge or opinion about the good and akrasia (lack or loss of self control). Is it possible for a person to do what they know or think to be something bad or wrong? A lack or loss of self-control would seem to imply that one does on some level understand the mo...
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 7 - Akrasia: Lack Or Loss Of Self Control - Sadler's Lectures
March 09, 2023 18:18 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 7, and examines his discussion of lack of self control, called in Greek "akrasia". He discusses how this lack of self-control can take place, and whether it involves knowing something to be bad or wrong and nevertheless choosing it. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sa...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Three Types Of Anger - Sadler's Lectures
March 08, 2023 15:34 - 11 minutes - 16.8 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christin philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger". It focuses specifically on determining how many types of anger there are. Thomas follows what he takes Aristotle to be claiming, and that John Damscene does claim, namely that there are three main types of anger. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to m...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Anger, Hatred, And Seriousness - Sadler's Lectures
March 07, 2023 18:41 - 15 minutes - 22.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christin philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger". It focuses specifically on the question whether anger or hatred is a more serious matter. In discussing this, Thomas makes some important distinctions between the two emotions 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 d...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Anger's And Justice's Objects - Sadler's Lectures
March 07, 2023 00:51 - 15 minutes - 23.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christin philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger". It focuses specifically on what the objects of anger and justice are, and whether they are the same or different. 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.b...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Anger And Reason - Sadler's Lectures
March 05, 2023 14:36 - 17 minutes - 26.5 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christin philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger" (and a bit of question 48 as well) It focuses specifically on the relationship between the emotion of anger and the human capacity for reason and rationality. Does anger involve reason, and does anger interfere with reason are two of the questions Thomas examine To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon s...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Goodness, Badness, And Anger - Sadler's Lectures
March 03, 2023 16:37 - 16 minutes - 24.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger". It focuses specifically on whether the object of anger is goodness (bonum), badness (malum), or both. Anger is also compared to other emotions in terms of its object. 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...
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Anger As Specific Or General Emotion - Sadler's Lectures
March 02, 2023 18:47 - 13 minutes - 19.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christin philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas's work, the Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, question 46 "On Anger". It focuses specifically on whether anger is a general (passion generalis) or specific emotion (passion specialis). Anger is, as Thomas points out, a particularly complex emotion, involving other emotional responses. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like ...
Diogenes Laertes - Theodorus Interpretation Of Cyrenaic Ethics - Sadler's Lectures
March 01, 2023 05:06 - 12 minutes - 17.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on the philosopher Theodoras' reinterpretation of the key ideas, doctrines, and concerns of Cyrenaic ethics. 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 c...
Diogenes Laertes - Hegesias Interpretation Of Cyrenaic Ethics - Sadler's Lectures
February 27, 2023 18:43 - 14 minutes - 22 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on the philosopher Hegesias' reinterpretation of the key ideas, doctrines, and concerns of Cyrenaic ethics. 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 ca...
Diogenes Laertes - Cyrenaic Sages, Virtue, And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures
February 24, 2023 18:08 - 15 minutes - 22 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 2, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on how Aristippus and the Cyrenaics viewed the figure of the "sage" or wise person, how they understood happiness, and where virtue and the virtues figure into the good life. 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/Rea...
Diogenes Laertes - Aristippus On Pleasures And Pains - Sadler's Lectures
February 23, 2023 14:15 - 14 minutes - 21.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on Aristippus' teaching about the centrality of pleasures and pains in moral decision-making and the good life. It also discusses how the Cyrenaics classified and valued different pleasures and pains. 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 ...
Diogenes Laertes - Aristippus, Wealth, Power, And Philosophy - Sadler's Lectures
February 22, 2023 17:03 - 17 minutes - 25.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on the lifestyle, mindset, and priorities of Aristippus, displayed in his choices and actions. Philosophy made it possible for him to feel at ease in any situations, and to adopt the right attitudes towards wealth, power, and those who possess them To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd ...
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Anger And Punishment - Sadler's Lectures
February 20, 2023 13:33 - 14 minutes - 20.7 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on his views on the relationship between anger and punishment. Seneca rejects the claim that anger is required in order to punish rightly. He also sets out a conception of punishment as primarily about healing the offender and protecting 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...
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Anger And Defending Others - Sadler's Lectures
February 18, 2023 16:44 - 10 minutes - 15.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on his criticisms of the often-made claim that anger is needed in order to defend other people close to one, including parents, children, spouses, friends, and neighbors 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...
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Anger And Reason - Sadler's Lectures
February 16, 2023 18:32 - 13 minutes - 19 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on the issue of how the emotion of anger and reason or rationality are related to each other. Seneca, as a Stoic, thinks that when the human mind is affected by anger, that keeps it from being rational, and he notes a number of differences between what anger does and what reason does. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd ...
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Is Anger A Useful Ally? - Sadler's Lectures
February 15, 2023 15:21 - 14 minutes - 21.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on his criticisms of the argument made in ancient times (and in our own) that anger can be a useful ally for virtue or reason, providing us with needed energy or resolve. 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.buymeaco...
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Is Anger In Accordance With Nature? - Sadler's Lectures
February 14, 2023 14:36 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on the question whether anger is or is not "in accordance with nature" (secundum naturum), which Seneca here interprets in a common Stoic way, as in accordance with a fully developed human nature. 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, On Anger Book 1 - Definitions Of Anger - Sadler's Lectures
February 12, 2023 22:57 - 14 minutes - 21.6 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1 It focuses specifically on the definitions of anger he considers at the beginning of the work. These include: Anger is a brief madness (some "wise people") Anger is the desire to take vengeance for a wrong Anger is the desire to punish the person by whom you reckon you were unjustly harmed (Posidonius) Anger is the arousal of the mind to harm the person who has either harmed oneself or wished...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hume's Fork - Sadler's Lectures
February 11, 2023 17:49 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the passages that are sometimes called "Hume's Fork", which run: "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Pyrrhonian And Mitigated Skepticism
February 09, 2023 18:04 - 16 minutes - 24.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the distinction he makes between a Pyrrhonian or excessive skepticism and a mitigated or Academical skepticism, in both matters of theory and practice 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.bu...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Skepticism And The Senses - Sadler's Lectures
February 08, 2023 16:19 - 17 minutes - 26.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion of skepticism, specifically in terms of the reliability of the senses and the truth of what we perceive through them. He considers in particular whether the distinction between primary and secondary qualities really holds or not. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a ...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - God, Providence, And Justice
February 08, 2023 16:16 - 15 minutes - 22 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion bearing on whether we have good rational grounds for claiming that there is distributive justice within the world or not, or failing that, provided for in an afterlife. 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...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Causes, Effects, And Divine Providence
February 03, 2023 22:07 - 19 minutes - 30.2 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his discussion, framed in terms of arguments placed in the mouths of friend of his and of Epicurus, of claims about divine providence made by religious people. One of Hume's main lines of criticism is that when it comes the universe and the divine, we can reason from effects to causes, but not from causes to effects, given how little we know or...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Reasons Against Testimonies Of Miracles
February 02, 2023 14:08 - 19 minutes - 29 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on the arguments that he provides against accepting testimonies that would amount to a proof or a probability of a miracle 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 c...
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Miracles, Testimony, And Nature
January 31, 2023 12:32 - 16 minutes - 23.4 MBThis lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding It focuses specifically on his views on whether miracles, as opposed to simply marvelous events, are possible, and whether testimonies about miracles make them probable or proven or not. Hume defines a miracle as a violation of the laws of nature. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, yo...