Blaise Pascal - Pensees

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his views on the "two infinites" - the infinitely great and the infinitely small (the latter of which, in his view still contains a great amount of stuff) - and their implications for human beings.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Two Infinites - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses what "tyranny" - including but going beyond the political sense - consists in. In his view, the basis of tyranny is the desire to dominate beyond one's own area of legitimate value, competence, or scope.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - What Tyranny Consists In - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his advice about how to get a person to accept criticism or correction. Pascal notes that nobody wants to be told he or she is simply wrong about an issue, but people are willing to admit that their view of matters is one-sided.


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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Correcting By Revealing One-Sidedness - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different mindsets or perspectives, the "intuitive mind" (l'esprit de finesse)  and the mathematical mind (l'esprit de géométrie).  Both of these have to do with how persons perceive and understand "axioms" or basic principles relevant to a subject matter.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Intuitive And Mathematical Minds - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses about how self-love (amour propre) renders human beings averse to acknowledging the truth about themselves, others, and the world.  Self love makes us prefer a false self-image to the truth of who we are, and we pressure others to lie to us about who we are what qualities we possess (or lack).

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Self-Love And Aversion To Truth - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice

Specifically it examines his discussion of one of the key insights of the work.  This is what Rawls calls the "initial situation" or "condition" in which people would choose basic rules of justice governing a fair society.  He envisions this as taking place behind a "veil of ignorance", in which nobody knows who they would be in that society.

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John Rawls, A Theory of Justice - The Initial Condition - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice

Specifically it examines his discussion of the two main principles of justice that he thinks rational agents in an initial condition, deciding behind a veil of ignorance, will settle upon

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John Rawls, A Theory of Justice - Two Principles of Justice - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher John Rawls' work of ethics and political theory, A Theory of Justice

Specifically it examines how he outlines how the rather restricted theory of justice in his work would connect with and lead to a broader moral theory or ethics.

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John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice - Reflective Equilibrium - Sadler's Lectures

his lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient  philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics

Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Good Humor or Wittiness, and its opposed vices of Buffoonery (or Vulgarity, or Jackassery) and Boorishness (or Being-A-Stick-In-The-Mud!)

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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 4 - The Virtue Of Good Humor - Sadler's Lectures

his lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient  philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics

Specifically it focuses on book 4 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and some parallel discussions in the Eudemian Ethics), where he discusses the Virtue of Truthfulness (about oneself), and its opposed vices of Boastfulness and Self-Deprecation.

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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 4 - The Virtue Of Truthfulness - Sadler's Lectures

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