Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on his engagement with the Gnostic religion of Manichaeism, his dissatisfaction with the answers to important philosophical questions that they provided, and his disappointed hopes in their bishop Faustus

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on how, once his desire for wisdom was aroused by reading Cicero's work, the Hortentius, Augustine sought out wisdom, what sources of possible wisdom he examined, and where he was able to find it

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on his self-examination as he recalls the incident of the Pear Tree in book 2. This leads Augustine to reflect upon the nature of human motivation - particularly the motivations that explain wrong or evil actions and choices. In trying to get to the roots of the Pear Tree incident, he finds that his action ultimately had to be explained by saying that he desired evil - which is really a nothing or nullity.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on his experience with and reflections upon the grief he felt upon the death of a close friend.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on his discussion starting in book 3 of his love for shows and spectacles, and his ruminations on what it is that he loves about them, given that the matters depicted are the miseries of other people.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on his education or miseducation during his childhood. Augustine discusses the lessons he learned, many of which were not the most productive

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on book 1, where Augustine describes and examines his infancy and the transition from infancy to speech.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the early medieval philosopher and theologian, Augustine of Hippo's work, The Confessions.

It focuses specifically on the questions that he begins the work by asking himself (and God), having to do with where God can be, and whether or not God can be contained in any place or person.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 7.

Specifically it examines his famous Allegory of the Cave set out early in book 7. After being liberated from the cave and gradually habituated to see real things in daylight, and eventually the source of light in the sun, as opposed to the shadows of the cave, the prisoner determines to return to the cave out of a sense of pity or compassion for his fellow prisoners.

Because his eyes are now habituated to seeing in full light, he is bot able to see as well in the dimly lit cave. Because he knows that the play of shadows on the wall are mere images, he does not value them as the reality the prisoners think them to be. His fellow prisoners laugh at him, think he has damaged his vision, and become hostile to him when he proposes liberating them.

This portion of the allegory describes in narrative form what happens to the philosopher who has habituated him or herself to contemplation of the immaterial, intelligible Forms, when he or she attempts to help fellow human beings out of their own caves.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 7.

Specifically it examines his famous Allegory of the Cave set out early in book 7. In this allegory, prisoners are confined within an underground dwelling, and believe that reality is the images and sounds projected in front of them. One of the prisoners is freed of his chains and brought up into the sunlit world above. After habituation, he becomes able to fully use his power of sight to see real things, the heavens, and the sun that illuminates them.

The allegory is a story about what genuine education would be. Plato rejects the notion of education as simply providing information or filling students' heads with knowledge. Instead, education involves rising above a world of material things, which are only shadows or images of the truer realities, the immaterial Forms. Through developing our minds, we become able to grasp these invisible Forms, and the Form of the Good that is the cause of all things.

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