This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 3

It focuses specifically on Seneca discussing a paradox of calling someone a friend but not trusting them with information.  This leads Seneca to say that his correspondent, Lucilius doesn't seem to know what genuine friendship really is or involves, and to make a distinction between the common but mistaken use of the term "friend" and the proper sense of the term. He also suggests that many make mistakes by first loving someone and trusting them as a friend and only later on forming a correct judgement of them as a person, when the order of this ought to be reversed.

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Seneca, Letter 3 - True and False Friendship - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 6

It focuses specifically on  how we make moral progress, and that we ought to want to share that progress with our friends. He also clarifies that when we learn something we ought to want to share that as well with our friends. A better way to do this than simply learning precepts is to spend time with those who we think have made progress and developed understanding, so we can see how they actually live their lives

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Seneca, Letter 6 - Friendship, Progress, and Sharing Knowledge - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 99

In this letter, after a brief introductory paragraph, Seneca reproduces a letter sent to a different correspondent Marullus when he had lost a young child. Although Seneca says that his goal is not to console but rather to offer criticism, he in effect does both of these, offering a number of considerations that can prove helpful to a person who is grieving the loss of a loved one.

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Seneca, Letter 99 - Consolation For Loss Of A Child - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the first letter, which is by Abelard. It discusses the consolation Abelard attempts to provide his fried by recounting the story of his life, which includes his romantic, intellectual, and sexual involvement with Heloise, their marriage, his castration, and their taking religious vows and entering monastic life.

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 1 - A History Of Abelard's Calamities - Sadler's Lectures

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He is the earliest human being whose name and life story are known to history. We examine the origins and contents of the most ancient narrative ever found anywhere on Earth, and trace how it has been rediscovered, re-used, and re-translated in the modern world, becoming a living and evolving text in a time of anxiety over the fate of civilization.

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Suggested further reading: George, "The Epic of Gilgamesh"; N.K. Sandars, "The Epic of Gilgamesh"; Heidel, "The Epic of Gilgamesh and Old Testament Parallels"; Stephen Mitchell, "Gilgamesh"; Michael Schmidt, "Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem."

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ESMERALDA WRITZ 'Intersectional environmentalism for all life on earth' @ Ozora 2025 | Chambok House

OXANA LOPATINA 'How we search for meaning' - Lecture @ Ozora Festival 2025 | Chambok House

DR. MARIO MOLINA-KESCHER 'Healing Earth with Nature's Own Remedies' @ Ozora 2025 | Chambok House

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Dans cet épisode, découvrez Vénus Impudiques de Caroline Bouchoms, paru en janvier 2025 chez maelstrÖm reEvolution.

Vénus Impudiques est une enquête décalée sur le désir de maternité à la croisée des histoires et de la grande Histoire…

"Je fais partie de cette génération qui réclame la réconciliation afin d’inventer d’autres liens avec le monde sensible sur les cendres du capitalisme. Il est urgent, pour la Terre, pour l’écologie, pour la survie de tous les êtres, d’apprendre à envisager le monde autrement que par cette vision dualiste: féminin/masculin,nature/culture, corps/esprit.
En interrogeant les liens entre création, procréation et écologie au départ  de paroles de femmes, de références historiques voire mythologique, et d'un peu de physique quantique, "Vénus Impudiques" est une écriture qui flirte avec les questions fondamentales de la vie."​

Caroline Bouchoms - Vénus Impudiques #340

Cynthia et Julie reviennent sur les 100 dernières pages explosives d’Onyx Storm et débriefent sans filtre tout ce qu’elles ont ressenti.

Entre trahisons, révélations et émotions XXL, on décortique chaque détail avant de se lancer dans nos théories les plus folles pour le tome 4.

Si toi aussi tu te poses plein de question en repensant à la fin… tu n’es clairement pas seul.e

Romantasy & Darkcast #2

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Toutes ces voix ont un point commun : elles sont écoutables sur SonaLitté. Depuis 2012, nous diffusons des podcasts dont le principe est simple : une autrice ou un auteur lit à voix haute un extrait de son dernier livre. Conçu par Mélanie Godin et réalisé par Mélanie Utzmann-Notrh, SonaLitté est un projet de l’asbl L’Arbre de Diane.

https://ozorafestival.eu - Reaching out into the deepest realms of your imagination and displaying, sharing that glorious, that grotesque, that unparalleled treasure you find within is one of the pillars of the Ozora experience.
The experience of a parallel existence created by our diversely colored dreams and visions of the same pure unblemished space, paradise on earth, our fairy tale. 
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With unfaltering belief we set sail yet again, under the flag of love and light, together on our journey towards the newest experiences and treasures yet to be discovered in summer 2014.

History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live.   More info at www.historiansplaining.com

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