
Sadler's Lectures
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Jan 3, 2025 • 11min
Seneca, On Anger Book 3 - Delay As Remedy For Anger - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2 and 3
It focuses specifically on his discussions in books 2 and 3 about using delay or postponement to head off anger in oneself or in others.
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Jan 2, 2025 • 18min
Seneca, On Anger Book 2 - Raising Children Not To Be Angry - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on how children can be raised so that they will not get angry as easily or perhaps even not at all
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Jan 1, 2025 • 15min
Seneca, On Anger Book 2 - Considering Anger's Ugliness - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on a practice he thinks can be used to restrain anger, namely considering the ugliness of the emotion of anger, as shown in our faces, voices, and bodies. Here are some of the passages mentioned:
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Dec 30, 2024 • 16min
Seneca, On Anger Book 2 - Anger Over Trivial Matters - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on his discussion of petty and trivial matters that tend to make people angry, and why we should not allow these to get to us.
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Dec 28, 2024 • 11min
Seneca, On Anger, Book 2 - Anger At Unfairness Of Harm - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2
It focuses specifically on his discussion of how the perception of unfairness or injustice of harm to us can easily lead us into getting angry, and what we can do to counter this.
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Dec 27, 2024 • 18min
Seneca, On Anger Book 1 - Anger And Greatness Of Spirit - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1
It focuses specifically on on whether the emotion of anger is a sign or effect of the virtue of great-spiritedness or magnanimity, which Stoics consider to be one of the sub-virtues of courage
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Dec 26, 2024 • 20min
Ursula K Leguin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters - About Anger - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the essay by the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin, "About Anger, found in her book No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters.
It discusses Leguin's reflections on the conditions in which anger can be a useful emotion in public, political, and private life, and on the dangers of treating anger uncritically as if it is always something good for dealing with injustice, abuse, exploitation, and threats. Leguin contrasts the early years of second-wave feminism and activism for gender justice and women's rights against the present time, in which anger isn't as useful a response. She also discusses anger's interrelation with other emotions such as jealousy, hatred, fear, and pain.
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Dec 25, 2024 • 18min
Ursula K Leguin, The Word Of Unbinding - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's short story, "The Word of Unbinding", which can be found in her book The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Rule of Names takes place in her Earthsea narrative universe. We discuss the characters, the plot, and several key aspects of the Earthsea setting.
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Dec 24, 2024 • 19min
Ursula K Leguin, The Rule Of Names - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's short story, "The Rule of Names", which can be found in her book The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Rule of Names takes place in her Earthsea narrative universe. We discuss the characters, the plot, and several key aspects of the Earthsea setting.
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Dec 23, 2024 • 17min
Jorge Luis Borges - The Secret Miracle - Sadler' Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Secret Miracle" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the author Jaromir Hladík who is captured by the Nazis in their invasion of Czechoslovakia, and sentenced to death. Desiring to finish his play The Enemies, which he hopes will vindicate his existence, he prays to God to give him one more year to do so. As he is about to be executed, time stops for the external world, and he is able to continue his composition of the play from memory.
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