Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings)

Specifically it examines his discussion of two distinct sorts of pleasures -- moving or kinetic pleasures, caused by some sort of change on the part of the one experiencing it (e.g. drinking wine), and static pleasures, consisting in a state of rest or satiety, free from pain, fears, and troubles.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings)

Specifically it examines his conception of practical reasoning, involving prudential determination of the values of pleasures and pains against each other.

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You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase the Epicurus Reader - https://amzn.to/3jZraVQ

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient hedonist philosopher Epicurus' Principal Doctrines (as well as the Letter to Menoecius and the Vatican Sayings)

Specifically it examines his discussion about the relationship between living pleasantly, living justly, and living prudently.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase the Epicurus Reader - https://amzn.to/3jZraVQ

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his discussion of despair, betrayal, and even suicide as human possibilities that need to be taken into consideration.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his discussion of hope, which stresses that it this state or act is something active, and which connects us to ourselves, others, and the world. Hope has conative and cognitive as well as affective or emotional aspects

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines the examples of mysteries that he provides in that essay. These include: knowledge, the union of the body and the mind, death, hope, being, evil, value, and encounter.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his distinction between a problem and a mystery. The latter is a meta-problematic, and involves the subject engaging with the problem in it in some way.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his discussion of the interrelation between what he calls "problems" (as distinguished from mysteries), the range of techniques, and technology.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his discussion of what he calls the ontological need or exigency, and what stands in the way of understanding and approaching this.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher, playwright, and musician, Gabriel Marcel's essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery.

Specifically it examines his discussion of the reduction of human beings to vital, psychological, and social functions. He also connects this to a world understood in terms of problems, with no room maintained for mysteries or ontological depth.

To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler

If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM

You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

Purchase Gabriel Marcel's essay on The Ontological Mystery here - https://amzn.to/2FdNUPn