Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus

It focuses specifically on the philosopher Theodoras' reinterpretation of the key ideas, doctrines, and concerns of Cyrenaic ethics.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus

It focuses specifically on the philosopher Hegesias' reinterpretation of the key ideas, doctrines, and concerns of Cyrenaic ethics.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 2, The Life of Aristippus

It focuses specifically on how Aristippus and the Cyrenaics viewed the figure of the "sage" or wise person, how they understood happiness, and where virtue and the virtues figure into the good life.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus

It focuses specifically on Aristippus' teaching about the centrality of pleasures and pains in moral decision-making and the good life. It also discusses how the Cyrenaics classified and valued different pleasures and pains.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus

It focuses specifically on the lifestyle, mindset, and priorities of Aristippus, displayed in his choices and actions. Philosophy made it possible for him to feel at ease in any situations, and to adopt the right attitudes towards wealth, power, and those who possess them

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on his views on the relationship between anger and punishment. Seneca rejects the claim that anger is required in order to punish rightly. He also sets out a conception of punishment as primarily about healing the offender and protecting others.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on his criticisms of the often-made claim that anger is needed in order to defend other people close to one, including parents, children, spouses, friends, and neighbors

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on the issue of how the emotion of anger and reason or rationality are related to each other. Seneca, as a Stoic, thinks that when the human mind is affected by anger, that keeps it from being rational, and he notes a number of differences between what anger does and what reason does.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on his criticisms of the argument made in ancient times (and in our own) that anger can be a useful ally for virtue or reason, providing us with needed energy or resolve.

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 1

It focuses specifically on the question whether anger is or is not "in accordance with nature" (secundum naturum), which Seneca here interprets in a common Stoic way, as in accordance with a fully developed human nature.

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