Flew, Hare, and Mitchell - The University Discussion

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Max Scheler - Ressentiment

Philip K Dick - Ubik

Plutarch - On Being A Busybody

This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's novel, Tehanu, the fourth of six Earthsea books

It focuses specifically on the character Therru, a terribly abused child who was beaten, starved, and raped by her parents and their gang. She is thrown into a fire and left for dead, but survives and is adopted by Tenar, who raises her and tries to help her heal.


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Ursula K  Leguin, Tehanu - Therru's Abuse, Fear, And Healing - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the mid-20th century symposium on falsification and theology called the "University Discussion" which can be found in the volume New Essays in Philosophical Theology

 It focuses specifically on Anthony Flew's first contribution to the discussion, which starts with a revised version of John Wisdom's parable of the invisible gardener from his article Gods. Flew argues that much modern theological discourse, in so far as it consists in genuine assertions, risks "death by a thousand qualifications".

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The University Discussion - Anthony Flew, Assertions And Qualification - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the mid-20th century symposium on falsification and theology called the "University Discussion" which can be found in the volume New Essays in Philosophical Theology

It focuses specifically on Hare's response to the challenge that Flew articulated about the "death by a thousand qualifications" when people make statements using religious language. Hare proposes a different parable, one in which a person has an insane point of view (a "blik") about dons wanting to kill him. Hare argues that we have bliks about all sorts of matters and that these are not explanations but rather what underlie explanations

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The University Discussion - R.M. Hare, Bliks About The World - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the mid-20th century symposium on falsification and theology called the "University Discussion" which can be found in the volume New Essays in Philosophical Theology

It focuses specifically on a third parable, the agent who the resistance fighter meets, that Mitchell offers as an analogy to what goes on with religious believers when they encounter situations that suggest that there either is no God or that God does not care sufficiently about human suffering.

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The University Discussion - Basil Mitchell, Ambiguity In Interpretation - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the mid-20th century symposium on falsification and theology called the "University Discussion" which can be found in the volume New Essays in Philosophical Theology

It focuses specifically on Flew's last contribution to the symposium, in which he discusses whether Hare's and Mitchell's suggested parables and interpretations really do provide an adequate response to his concerns about the "death by a thousand qualifications" of assertions and explanations in religious language.

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The University Discussion - Anthony Flew, Criticisms To Hare's And Mitchell's Responses

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die 

It focuses upon his analysis of why people unnecessarily fear death, and how we can make death something familiar and thereby less scary to ourselves. 

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays - To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die - Removing Death's Strangeness

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die 

It focuses upon his examination of pleasure as a motivation for human choices, commitments, and actions. Montaigne argues that rightly understood, there is a better and higher form of pleasure than simple base pleasure, and that this is something that we ought to feel when we develop and practice the virtues

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays - To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die - Virtue and Pleasure

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die 

It focuses upon the ways in which Montaigne understands life and death as being related to each other, as not merely opposites

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays - To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die - Life And Death

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay How We Weep And Laugh At The Same Thing

It focuses upon the inconsistency of emotions we witness in a number of different people (including Montaigne himself), which should keep us from ascribing a fixed an immutable character to them. Montaigne explains that this has two sources, one within us, as we have a number of different emotions at any given time, though one dominates. The other source is that reality is complex and as we change our perspective, changes in emotional response can also take place 

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays - How We Weep And Laugh At The Same Thing - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay On Anger

It focuses upon his views on this emotion, partly drawn from other thinkers like Seneca and Plutarch. First Montaigne discusses children and other vulnerable people who suffer from cruel and violent punishments doled out in anger. He then discusses how anger tends to deform our judgements, leading angry people to dig in and get angry with truth or innocence itself. He also discusses the example Plutarch himself provides of imposing punishment when needed but not doing so out of anger

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Michel de Montaigne, Essays - On Anger - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st Century philosopher, ethicist, and theorist of the ethics of care, Virginia Held, from her 1990 article Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory

It focuses upon why she believes a radical (rather than reforming) transformation of moral theory needs to be carried out - in particular because women's voices, needs, and concerns have been neglected throughout the history of moral theory.

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Virginia Held, Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory - Radical Transformation of Moral Theory

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st Century philosopher, ethicist, and theorist of the ethics of care, Virginia Held, from her 1990 article Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory

It focuses upon her criticism of traditional, male-centered moral theories for ignoring the moral relevance of emotion, privileging reason over emotion, and dismissing women's concerns and insights as merely emotion-driven.

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Virginia Held, Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory - Emotion Versus Reason

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th-21st Century philosopher, ethicist, and theorist of the ethics of care, Virginia Held, from her 1990 article Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory

It focuses upon her criticism of traditional, male-focused moral theory, which she charges with confining women and their concerns to the private sphere (as opposed to the public and political sphere).

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Virginia Held, Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory - The Public Vs The Private

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name.  It focuses on the initial phenomenological description that Scheler develops of the affect and dynamic of ressentiment.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - A Description of Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on Scheler's analysis of two main sources of ressentiment, namely the desire for revenge, on the one hand, and envy, jealousy, and the competitive impulse. There are other affects that can figure into ressentiment as well, that Scheler identifies, such as hatred, malice, spite, the urge to detract, and schadenfreude.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Sources Of Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on  the ways in which comparison and valuation between oneself and others figures into ressentiment. Scheler thinks that practically everyone engages in comparison with others, but the ways in which one compares oneself and values oneself is very different between the "noble" and "common" types of persons. The latter can also be divided into the arriviste type and the person of ressentiment

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Ressentiment, Comparison, and Valuation - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on  the connection Scheler analyses between repression and ressentiment. The repression is complex, beginning with repression of the original object of the emotion and leading to changing the emotion and directing it inward to the person feeling it.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Repression and Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on what Scheler identifies as "spiritual varieties of ressentiment, two varieties of which he identifies at the beginning of his discussion, the "apostate" and the "romantic"state of mind. He also discusses ressentiment as involved in "every way of thinking which attributes creative power to mere negation and critique"

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Spiritual Varieties of Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on what Scheler calls "situations charged with the danger of ressentiment", and the ones he considers are women in relation to men, older people in relation to younger, interfamilial and intermarital relations, criminality (with some exceptions), and the situations of many priests.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Situations Charged With Ressentiment - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on on his discussion about how "value blindness" and "value delusion" figure into the dynamic of ressentiment. In the course of this discussion, Scheler references his earlier work Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, where he develops these concepts in relation to hierarchies of values.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Value Blindness and Delusion - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion at the end of the first section of how the ressentiment attitude develops by stages into a reversal and perversion of values which contravenes what Scheler calls an eternal hierarchy of values.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Moral Judgements and Systems - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on the very short part 2 of the work, in which Scheler discusses how entire moralities can emerge from ressentiment, and frames issues that will be discussed in the next two parts, namely ressentiment's relation with Christian morality and with modern bourgeois morality

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Ressentiment And Moral Value Judgement - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of pre-Christian Greek and Roman viewpoints on the nature and value of love, looking particularly to philosophers and poets.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Pre-Christian Greek Notions Of Love - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of the transformation of the conception of love brought about by genuine Christianity, that is, the movement oriented by the teachings and example of Jesus of Nazareth. He contrasts this against the pre-Christian conceptions of love found in Greek and Roman culture.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - The Christian Conception Of Love - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on  his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of what he calls the "urge to sacrifice" that is an aspect of a healthy vitality and a recognition of strength in vital values. 

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Life, Love, and Sacrifice - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of the Christian conception of God by contrast to earlier conceptions of God, specifically as infinite love.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - The Christian God and Love - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of the connections Scheler sees between the modern conception of "altruism" and the dynamic of ressentiment, which he thinks is involved in modern "altruism". Both altruism and egoism as opposites are often used by modern thinkers as a conceptual framework that Christian love does not neatly fit into, and the reduction of Christian love to "altruism", Scheler thinks, is a mistake.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Ressentiment and Altruism - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" of whether the teachings and example of Jesus of Nazareth is motivated or not by the dynamic of ressentiment.  Scheler provides reasons for judging that this is not the case.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Does Jesus Represent Ressentiment? - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century German philosopher, sociologist of knowledge, and phenomenologist, Max Scheler's work Ressentiment, which provides an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of that same name. It focuses on his discussion in the third part of the work "Christian Morality and Ressentment" providing an assessment of Nietzsche's criticisms of and charges against Christianity, understood primarily as a system of morality.

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Max Scheler, Ressentiment - Nietzsche's Errors About Christianity - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the key features of the narrative world Dick develops in the story, namely the technology of Cold-Pac, which allows people who have experienced bodily death to be kept at cold temperatures and have their brains and thereby consciousnesses maintained, extending them for a while into "half-life". They do eventually run down and die after their energies are exhausted, and perhaps are reincarnated or have their consciousness simply drift off into space. Within half-life, there are some predatorial people who consume the lives of other people in order to extend their own half-lives.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Death, Cold-Pac, and Half-Life - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the main aspects of the worldbuilding in the novel, namely that there are intelligent machines of all sorts that serve human beings, but mostly for a price. They charge for their services, and often banter with, and take positions on human beings.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Homeostatic Machines And Payments - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the central themes involved in the plot and worldbuilding of the story, namely the existence of psionic talents such as telepathy and precognition, and the existence of anti-psionic talents (called inertials) that nullify those psionic talents. Most of the psionic and anti-psionic talents work for companies, like that of Ray Hollis or Glen Runciter

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Psionic and Antipsionic Talents - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the role that "prudence organizations", that is companies that employ anti-psionic talents or "inertials" to block or combat psionic talents, play in the world of the novel. These prudence organizations also belong to a "society" which engages in action on their behalf against companies that employ psionic talents like telepaths and precogs. We get a glimpse of the kinds of advertisement appeals made by prudence organizations early on in the novel as well.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Prudence Organizations And The Society - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the advertisement copy framing Ubik as a variety of different commodities and services that begin nearly each chapter of the novel. Most of them also include cautions that the product must only be used as directed. And the final one is a rather enigmatic theological or metaphysical declaration on the part of Ubik

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Philip Dick, Ubik - The Ubik Advertisements - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the important characters we meet early on in the work, Glen Runciter, the aged but very dynamic head of Runicter Associates, a "prudence organization", which he heads, getting advice from his dead wife in cold-pac half-life when needed.  We get to see Runciter's moral character and capacities through the eyes of several other characters in the novel, and he actively takes part in trying to save the lives of his team once they are in half-life as well

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Glen Runciter of Runciter Associates - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the most central characters of the novel, Joe Chip, who we get introduced to in chapter 3 and who features in every chapter of the novel subsequent to that. We discuss in particular his role as a "tester" of psionic and anti-psionic talents and fields, his assuming leadership over the Runciter organization after the ambush that leaves Glen Runciter seemingly dead, his interactions with Patricia Conley, Glen Runciter, Jory Miller, and Ella Runciter, and Ella's plans for Joe to replace her as Glen Runciter's main advisor.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Joe Chip, Abilities Tester - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the characters who is seemingly minor early on in the novel, but who turns out to be a character of major importance within the plot. Jory Miller is a young man in half-life who "eats" other people in half-life in the moratorium, consuming their life-force, leaving them at the mercy of the cold of half-life. He turns out to be the primary antagonist of the story, consuming the person previously thought to be the antagonist, Pat Conley.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Jory, The Malignant Force - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the team of eleven "inertials," that is anti-psionic talents assembled by Glen Runciter to go to the lunar location of businessman Stanton Mick's company, and do a job eliminating the effects of various psionic talents, likely employed by Ray Hollis.  The team includes 4 anti-precogs, 4 anti-telepaths, 1 anti-animator, 1 anti-psychokineticist, and the as yet not entirely understood talent of Pat Conley.  Runciter and tester Joe Chip accompany them.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Runciter's Team of Inertials - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the ambush that Ray Hollis engineers, using Stanton Mick's company, based on the moon, as a potential new client for Runciter Associates. Glen Runciter, Joe Chip, and a team of 11 inertials (anti-psionic talents) fly to the location. They are asked not to take readings, which Joe Chip does anyways, discovering that Mick is actually a bomb in human disguise.  It turns out that there is a conspiracy that had been laid for quite a while, involving Hollis and his organization, perhaps Mick, Pat Conley, and Runciter's talent scout Ashwood.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Stanton Mick, Ray Hollis, and The Trap - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody

This episode focuses specifically on  why the sort of curiosity, inquisitiveness, meddlesomeness, or being a busybody he discusses is actually a vicious disposition, rather than something good. It involves a desire to learn about the troubles, problems, or bad things (kaka in Greek) of others. Instead of focusing upon their own problems or deficits, they focus on those of others.

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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Curiosity As A Vicious Disposition - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody

This episode focuses specifically on one of the features of the sort of curiosity or inquisitiveness central to being a busybody, namely that the person exhibiting it attempts to dig into other people's secrets, to find out bad things they would rather keep private, motivated by the desire and enjoyment of knowing those things and bringing them to light. He points out that this sort of curiosity can be not only unseemly or shameful, but also quite dangerous to those motivated by it

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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Curiosity, Secrecy, and Privacy - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody

This episode focuses specifically on  one of the general practices he suggests to wean oneself away from this vice, namely deliberately redirecting one's attention from the usual objects of morbid curiosity towards better, or at least less bad objects. A person ought to focus on their own problems and troubles, not those of others, but they can also focus on the secrets of the natural world. If that's not interesting enough, and one needs something bad to stimulate, one can read those in histories or tragedies, rather than prying into the secrets of one's neighbors and contemporaries.

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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Redirecting Curiosity to Better Topics - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody

This episode focuses specifically on  his discussions bearing on the role lack or loss of self-control (akrasia in Greek) plays in the sort of problematic curiosity he criticizes in this work.  Plutarch claims that lack of self control is just as evident in this curiosity as it is in adultery. He also discusses some of the bad effects for the curious person, including being distrusted by others 

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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Curiosity And Lack Of Self-Control - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody

This episode focuses specifically on he importance of developing self-control (enkrateia) in order to curb excessive and harmful curiosity.  We do this in general through habituation, training, and to some degree learning or study. He also provides in-depth discussion of a number of specific practices we can use in that process of moving ourselves into self-control and towards virtue.

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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Developing Self-Control Over Curiosity - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility

This episode focuses specifically on his discussion of one mistake that many people make that gets in the way of their enjoying their lives, namely desiring or attempting to do every kind of activity they consider important or valuable in their one life. Many activities are incompatible with each other, so selecting one means selecting against the others that incompatible. Plutarch advises us to follow the Delphic maxim "know yourself".

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Plutarch, On Tranquility - Desiring Or Trying To Do Everything - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility

This episode focuses specifically on an important component of having a tranquil life, which is dealing with the emotional states that other people have, display, talk about, and act upon. We will do well not to be too concerned with other people's negative emotions, like envy, anger, malevolence, or jealousy.

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Plutarch, On Tranquility - Dealing With Other's Emotions - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility

This episode focuses specifically on the topic of whether it is good or bad for us to compare ourselves and our lives with other people, particularly with those who are superior to us in some ways. He suggests that if we do need to compare ourselves to others, we be very realistic about how well off we typically are.

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Plutarch, On Tranquility - Comparing Ourselves With Others - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the early modern philosopher Francis Bacon's work Novum Organum, specifically the section in book 1 covering the "four idols of the human mind"

This episode focuses specifically on his description of the first type of idol, those of the tribe, which have to do with our shared human nature, as members of the same human race. Bacon examines what distinctive sorts of errors of these types we can fall into and how they can arise.

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Francis Bacon, Novum Oraganum - The Idols Of The Tribe - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the early modern philosopher Francis Bacon's work Novum Organum, specifically the section in book 1 covering the "four idols of the human mind"

This episode focuses specifically on his description of the second type of idol, those of the cave or den, which have to do with human individuals.  Bacon examines what distinctive sorts of errors of these types we can fall into and how they can arise.

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Francis Bacon, Novum Oraganum - The Idols Of The Cave - Sadler's Lectures

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