Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, novelist, playwright, and poet Miguel de Unamuno's book Tragic Sense of Life

It focuses specifically on discussions of what he means by that term itself, the "tragic sense of life"

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art?

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the notions of the beautiful, true, and good, which were often conflated in his time, and which Tolstoy thought needed to be distinguished from and even opposed to each other.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art?

It focuses specifically on the definition of Art that he provides in the work, construing it as a means of communion between people.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art?

It focuses specifically on his his contention that elite art is not true or genuine art, and the arguments he provides to support his case

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art?

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the scope of what can be considered to be works of art.

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Blaise Pascal's Pensees, section 332, in which he reflects upon the nature of tyranny, which he interprets as demanding what is not one's due. This is often the case for people who are outstanding in one respect, and who unjustly demand respect or priority on some other grounds.

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Ursula K Leguin's essay "Telling The Truth", found in her book The Language of the Night. She discusses how writers draw upon experience, and how being open or closed to experience offers a richness or poverty to the person. She also discusses the adage "write what you know", and interprets it in terms of knowing key elements of fantasy

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Plutarch's work On Contentment, where he tells us that while we often do not choose the situations and conditions we are placed in, we do have choices about how we deal with them, and whether we make good use of them or not

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Epictetus' Discourses book 3, chapter 21, in which he tells us we need to digest, rather than regurgitate our principles by making them part of our consistent way of living

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Seneca's On Tranquility of Mind, where he suggests that instead of crying or being upset with the people and events of the world, we can laugh, or even neither laugh nor cry about but simply accept matters

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