Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Ends , which discusses problems and perspectives on happiness, ethics, and human nature

Specifically it examines his discussion in book 1 about how Epicureans view virtue and vice. For them, virtue is not something to be desired or valued for its own sake, but rather for the pleasure it produces or provides, or for the pain it alleviates or prevents.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Ends , which discusses problems and perspectives on happiness, ethics, and human nature

Specifically it examines on his discussion in book 1 about two different conceptions of pleasure that the Epicureans distinguished - active or moving pleasures, and static pleasures resulting from the absence of pain.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Ends , which discusses problems and perspectives on happiness, ethics, and human nature

Specifically it examines his discussion in book 1 about the Epicurean philosophy, and its central contention that pleasure is the ultimate good for human beings, and pain the ultimate evil. Considerations about pleasure and pain provide the basis for practical reasoning for Epicureans

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century Analytic philosopher, A.J. Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic

It focuses specifically on his assertion that nonsense in philosophy gets generated by mistakenly moving from grammar to metaphysics. He thinks this is the case for substance, being, and other metaphysical concepts.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century Analytic philosopher, A.J. Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic

It focuses specifically on the examples that he provides in chapter 1 of philosophical positions, beliefs, or assertions he calls nonsense.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century Analytic philosopher, A.J. Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic

It focuses specifically on a central distinction running through his approach, i.e. between empirical/experiential propositions or statements, tautologies, and what Ayer takes to be literally nonsense.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century Analytic philosopher, A.J. Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic

It focuses specifically on what he terms the "criterion of verifiability", which determines whether a statement, proposition, or expression has literal significance or not, and what that would be.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century Analytic philosopher, A.J. Ayer's book Language, Truth, and Logic

It focuses specifically on Ayer's interpretation of Immanuel Kant's critique of metaphysics, and Ayer's distinction between his and Kant's positions.

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This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Monologion.

It focuses on the topic of the divine utterance (locutio) or word (verbum) discussed in chapters 29-32

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This lecture discusses the medieval Christian thinker, monk, and bishop, Anselm of Canterbury's work, the Monologion.

It focuses on the topic of the Word's (verbum) relation to the created beings that it expresses.

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