Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Specifically it examines his discussio in sec. 2 where he introduces the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative. This video discusses the formulation in general, breaks it down, and suggests and how it might be applied. This formulation tells us to act always upon maxims that we can will to be universal laws of nature.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Specifically it examines his discussion of the three types of imperatives he distinguishes. These include categorical imperatives of morality and hypothetical imperatives of skill and prudence.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the connection between rationality, morality, and happiness.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the connection about what it means to have Duty as the motive for one's actions and decisions.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Specifically it examines his discussion in sec. 1 about the Good Will as being the only unqualifiedly good thing.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines the assumptions made about laws of nature, social science and planning, and the will. These tend to be made from perspectives that could be categorized as enlightenment, rationalist, utilitarian, positivist, or liberal, which were quite common in the 19th century.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines the relationship between desire and reason, and the priority that desire ultimate has over reason

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines what he calls the "most advantageous advantage", which outweighs all other advantages or perceived goods or values.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines his discussion of the modern thinkers who assert that if human beings simply understood their own self-interest, they would not engage in immoral, unjust, or otherwise bad behavior.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines the emotion of anger, the impulse towards revenge, and the conception of justice. Ordinary people, and "people of action", precisely because they don't think or understand much, think that they are justified in their anger and the revenge they take. For the reflective intellectual, things are not so clear cut.

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