Sadler's Lectures
Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler
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Sep 9, 2024 • 15min
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 5 - Unjust Actions & Injustice As A Vice
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics
Specifically it focuses on book 5 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and there is a parallel discussion in book 1 of the Rhetoric), where Aristotle distinguishes degrees of responsibility for bad or harmful actions (between mischances, errors, and actually unjust acts) and discusses the difference between engaging in an unjust action and being unjust, i.e. having the vice of injustice.
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Sep 7, 2024 • 16min
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 3 - Five States Similar To Courage - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics
Specifically it focuses on book 3 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses five states or conditions that resemble courage, but which are not genuine courage, in book 3.
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Sep 4, 2024 • 22min
Ursula K Leguin, From Elfland To Poughkeepsie - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's essay, From Elfland To Poughkeepsie, found in her essay collection The Language of the Night
It discusses the nature of genuinely valuable fantasy literature, particularly in relation to style, as opposed to literature that while it might be classified as "fantasy" doesn't measure up.
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Sep 2, 2024 • 13min
Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Roke Takes Students And Masters - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", and focuses specifically on the decision by the Women of the Hand at Roke Isle to end their strategy of seclusion and to seek out worthy students of magic from the other isles of Earthsea
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Aug 31, 2024 • 21min
Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Roke, The Hand, And The Pattern - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the story "The Finder," and examines the development of the community of mostly women magic users on the Isle of Roke, which has isolated itself from the rest of Earthsea, leaving behind the remnants of the Hand outside of Roke.
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Aug 27, 2024 • 17min
Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Anieb's And Medra's Escape - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", specifically Otter/Medra's and Anieb's escape from the mercury mining and refining complex, and from its ruler, the evil wizard Gelluk. Anieb helps Medra resist and trick Gelluk, and gives the last of her strength and dies along their route of escape.
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Aug 26, 2024 • 15min
Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Gelluk, Quicksilver, & The King - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", specifically how Medra/Otter is taken from his parents and placed as a slave in the service of the evil, and insane wizard Gelluk, who thinks mercury is the key to all magic.
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Aug 25, 2024 • 17min
Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - The Dangerous Isles Of Earthsea - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea books
It focuses specifically on the story "The Finder," and focuses on Leguin's depiction of Earthsea in its "dark times" hundreds of years before the narratives of the first four books, when Earthsea was divided politically, and the strong preyed upon and exploited the weak.
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Aug 22, 2024 • 17min
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Human Nature And Moral Philosophy
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
It focuses specifically on his discussion in section 1 of the work, specifically the range of matters that moral philosophy, as Hume understands it, studies, which includes not just ethics, but also human psychology, motivations, the emotions, and ways in which we acquire and associate ideas
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Aug 21, 2024 • 12min
David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Pleading Metaphysics Case - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
It focuses specifically on his discussion in section 1 of the work, specifically where Hume notes that too many people in his time wish to reject "metaphysics" entirely, leading him to plead the case of metaphysics, providing justifications for why at least some people ought to engage in it
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