Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' work, the Discourses, and focuses on his discussion about the "Master Argument" in book 2

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This lecture discusses the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' work, the Discourses, and focuses on his discussion about "forlornness" or "loneliness" (eremia) and how it differs from solitude or beings alone.

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This lecture discusses the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' work, the Discourses, and focuses on his discussion(s) of divine providence and human beings' place within the providential ordering

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This lecture discusses the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' work, the Discourses, and focuses on his discussion about moral example as set by those who are in positions of authority. He focuses on the case of an official who gets into a conflict with a crowd over which actor ought to get a prize.

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This lecture discusses the Stoic philosopher Epictetus' work, the Discourses, and focuses on his discussion(s) of where human beings tend to be morally inconsistent. He explores the motivations and priorities that are typically involved in moral failings.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his discussion in part 5 of whether a machine could be developed that would pass for a human being. In the process of examining this question, he outlines how animals and machines differ from rational human beings. This involves the capacity to use language in a distinctly human manner.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his discussion at the end of part 4 of whether we can trust the truth of our waking thoughts or not - and whether we can distinguish them apart from thoughts arising in dreams.

The veracity and goodness of God plays a central role in Descartes' argument here, since that allows him to use the criterion of "clear and distinct" conceptions for the truth of our thoughts or ideas.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on on his references in part 4 to being and nothingness (néant) in relation to truth and falsity.

Descartes writes of our ideas - when they are clear and distinct - as being true and as participating in being. When our ideas are confused and obscure, they are false and - as he tells us - they "participate in nothingness." We can also think about our own metaphysical status as poised in some sense between the fullness of being and nothingness.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his discussions of whether God's existence can be proven or not, what the nature of God is, and how God figures into Descartes' metaphysics.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his discussion in part 4 of what can be called into doubt and what cannot.

Descartes argues that any ideas that come to us through the medium of the senses can be called into doubt. Going even further, even logical and geometrical/mathematical demonstrations can be doubted. And we cannot even be sure at any given time whether we are awake or dreaming.

What cannot be doubted - for the person who is engaged in doubt - is the very fact that one exists. Here we arrive at the famous Cartesian "cogito ergo sum", or in the French of the Discourse, "je pense, donc je suis" (I think, therefore I exist).

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