Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses his set of lectures, "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking", specifically on lecture 2, "What Pragmatism Means", and discusses how new opinions are entertained and then assimilated into the matrix of the older beliefs that we hold as true. Generally the new ideas or experiences are not accepted wholesale, but rather end up being adjusted to fit in with as many of the older truths as we can retain.

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This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses his set of lectures, "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking", specifically on lecture 2, "What Pragmatism Means", and discusses the relationship between pragmatism and two other general approaches in philosophy his audience would be very familiar with - empiricism and rationalism. In his view, pragmatism is a radical form of empiricism

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This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses his set of lectures, "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking", specifically on lecture 2, "What Pragmatism Means", and discusses the pragmatic theory of truth.

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This lecture discusses the 19th-20th century philosopher and psychologist, William James, and focuses his set of lectures, "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking", specifically on lecture 2, "What Pragmatism Means", and discusses what he calls the "pragmatic method" as a way of approaching controversial or contested matters.

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 9 chapter 1, in which Aristotle discusses the sorts of tensions that arise within friendships and other relationships, having to do with what one party gives, promises, or provides to the other. Aristotle notes that giving someone something they don't want, in place of what they do desire, is often worse than not giving them anything at all.

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Epictetus' Enchiridion, chapter 25, in which Epictetus provides advice about how to handle situations in which we find someone being preferred by others instead of us. He suggests there are several things we can remind ourselves of in order to approach these situations more productively

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Albert Camus' book The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he narrates one way in which human beings occasionally become aware of the absurd, when the routines they unthinkingly follow break down and reveal the contingency and perhaps meaninglessness of what one does day in, day out

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from the middle Platonist philosopher Plutarch's essay On Contentment. He discusses the role that good or bad memories play in whether we are content or not, and asserts that we have some measure of control over which of these sorts of memories we bring to mind and reflect upon or ruminate over.

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This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 1 chapter3, in which Aristotle is discussing what kinds of people have developed good judgement about matters, particularly those concerned with what he calls Political Science and Moral Science or Ethics, the discipline involved in living well. He references two distinct types or sources of immaturity that would make a person less able to study, understand, and apply ethics - immaturity of age and immaturity of character

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and translator, William David Ross' important work in ethics and moral theory, The Right and the Good.

This lecture focuses specifically on Ross' discussions about how the seven prima facie duties could be connected with, or conflict with each other.

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