Sadler's Lectures

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

It focuses specifically on the definitions of anger he considers at the beginning of the work. These include:

Anger is a brief madness (some "wise people")

Anger is the desire to take vengeance for a wrong

Anger is the desire to punish the person by whom you reckon you were unjustly harmed (Posidonius)

Anger is the arousal of the mind to harm the person who has either harmed oneself or wished to do so

Anger is the desire to return pain for pain (Aristotle)

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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 passages that are sometimes called "Hume's Fork", which run: "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."

As it turns out, the issue is a good bit more complicated than the binary that Hume seems to impose here

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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 distinction he makes between a Pyrrhonian or excessive skepticism and a mitigated or Academical skepticism, in both matters of theory and practice

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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 discussion of skepticism, specifically in terms of the reliability of the senses and the truth of what we perceive through them. He considers in particular whether the distinction between primary and secondary qualities really holds or not.

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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 discussion bearing on whether we have good rational grounds for claiming that there is distributive justice within the world or not, or failing that, provided for in an afterlife.

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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 discussion, framed in terms of arguments placed in the mouths of friend of his and of Epicurus, of claims about divine providence made by religious people. One of Hume's main lines of criticism is that when it comes the universe and the divine, we can reason from effects to causes, but not from causes to effects, given how little we know or can analogize about the divine as a cause.

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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 arguments that he provides against accepting testimonies that would amount to a proof or a probability of a miracle

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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 views on whether miracles, as opposed to simply marvelous events, are possible, and whether testimonies about miracles make them probable or proven or not. Hume defines a miracle as a violation of the laws of nature.

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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 views on whether non-human animals engage in reasoning or not. He argues that most human beings are not engaged in explicit reasoning most of the time, including philosophers, and that non-human animals are guided by experience and custom like human beings, but rely more upon instinct than do human beings

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and biographer Plutarch's short work On Controlling Anger.

This episode focuses specifically on his cautions about allowing the excuse that we are just experiencing and acting on "righteous indignation" (misoponeria), when we are really feeling and following anger.

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