Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business"

It focuses specifically on five of what Audi calls contexts of application for virtue ethics: aspiration, prohibition, exhortation, discovery, and justification

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You can get a copy of the text here - https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9DD70917398EF47CCF0A93D5113E29B9/S1052150X00004966a.pdf/div-class-title-virtue-ethics-as-a-resource-in-business-div.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American philosopher Robert Audi's article, "Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business"

It focuses specifically on his general overview about virtue ethics as a moral theory, looking at whether it can provide standards, what sort of standards it provides, and how it does so.

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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

You can get a copy of the text here - https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9DD70917398EF47CCF0A93D5113E29B9/S1052150X00004966a.pdf/div-class-title-virtue-ethics-as-a-resource-in-business-div.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.

It focuses specifically on Dick's views on the use of drugs, both street drugs and prescribed drugs, the latter of which he views as more problematic, and used to reduce people to analogues of androids

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You can get a copy of The Android and the Human here -https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.

It focuses specifically on how some of the characteristics and motivations of the present generation of children and young adults in his time can function to resist being reduced to analogues to androids ("androidization").

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You can get a copy of The Android and the Human here -https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.

It focuses specifically on the ways in which he thinks genuinely human beings (those who have not been reduced to androids) can be distinguished from androids.

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You can get a copy of The Android and the Human here -https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.

It focuses specifically on Dick's view that the distinction between the mechanical or electrical and the animate is beginning to break down in late modernity. He also suggests that in addition to looking to machines, computers, and androids to understand the human, we should reverse the analogy and use our understanding of human nature to better understand the machines that are emerging

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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

You can get a copy of The Android and the Human here -https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories

It focuses specifically on his discussion, at the very end of the work, of what he terms "eucatastrophe" (as opposed to duscatastrophe) as a function of fairy stories, the "happy ending" that occurs through pain, suffering, loss, but not a final defeat. There is a joy both for sub-creators and for readers or listeners of the stories, and it is connected to the good news or evangelium that comes through the stories.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the motivations we can have for engaging in escape from the present by reading fairy stories. Some of these motivations might be framed negatively, but others are better understood in terms of basic and even primordial desires of human beings.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories

It focuses specifically on his discussion of the common criticism that gets made of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy stories, namely that they are escapes from the reality of the ordinary life that we have a duty to remain with. Tolkien thinks this misguided, and offers some reasons why escape might be a reasonable and valuable thing to engage in.

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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories

It focuses specifically on his discussion near the end of the work of recovery of what has been lost (sometimes without us even realizing it) through fairy stories. He also addresses the problem many people impose upon themselves, worrying too much about originality, rather than seeing that creativity is possible even with few and often-used elements.

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You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

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