Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

It focuses specifically on the three main ways in which Hume thinks that ideas are associated within the human mind - Resemblance, Contiguity, and Cause and Effect

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

It focuses specifically on the basics of his Empiricist epistemology, specifically how it bears upon the relation between ideas and impressions.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

It focuses specifically on his important distinction between what he terms ideas and impressions of the mind. Many ideas are in some way copies or representations of the impressions we experience.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 120

It focuses specifically on the Stoic perspective that holds virtue to be the genuine good for human beings, by contrast to other points of view that assert there are other genuine goods. He also examines where our conception of virtue and moral goodness (the honestum) come from, and argues that it does not arise in us from nature itself, but rather through "analogy", drawn from our experiences and comparisons. He also cautions about the dangers of mixing up, or fluctuating between virtues and vices.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 113

It focuses specifically on his discussions of a common Stoic position which he himself considers mistaken - the notion that the virtues (wisdom, justice, courage, temperance) are themselves living creatures (animalia) within the mind (animus). He presents and criticizes two common Stoic arguments for this position, and then provides a number of arguments of his own against the position

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 89

It focuses specifically what had by his time become a common way of dividing the discipline of philosophy - into Ethics, Physics, and Logic. He explains what each of these fields includes. He also discusses why other schools attempts to add more divisions or to get rid of one or two of the three divisions. The three fields can be subdivided further, and his treatment of Ethics by breaking it down into three main fields is different from the "three disciplines" that Epictetus distinguishes in his Discourses.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 87

It focuses specifically on the Stoic perspective on wealth (including property and possessions), which is that it is not actually a good, but rather just a preferred indifferent. He examines a number of Stoic and other syllogisms aimed at arguing that wealth is not a good, and provides further explanations of them.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 74

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the nature of virtue according to the Stoics, and why virtue is the genuine good, the "honorable" (honestum). According to him, those who view other things like wealth, pleasure, honor, or the body as goods are mistaken and set themselves up for misery by subjecting themselves to fortune.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 71

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the supreme or highest good for human beings, which is what is honorable (honestum), or virtue. Virtue is what renders other things that are good, good - like good actions, good people, and so on. He also discusses a Stoic paradox, namely that all goods, insofar as they are good, are equal - and how virtue provides a measure for everything else.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 66

It discusses how two key Stoic ideas about virtue and goods come together. One of these is the paradoxical assertion that all goods are equal, and the other is that there are three kinds of goods. Seneca addresses this by arguing that virtue is the highest good which makes other things good, that virtue as such is always equal, never greater or lesser, and that the circumstances or matters in which virtue is exercised can vary, giving us different kinds of goods.

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