A podcast exploring philosophical and interpretive approaches to the history of popular music.
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The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyceum which were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus. In many ways this work parallels the similar Eudemian Ethics, which has only eight books, and the two works can be fruitfully compared. Books V, VI, and VII of the Nicomachean Ethics are identical to Books IV, V, and VI of the Eudemian Ethics. Opinions about the relationship betw ...
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From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.
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Sadler's Lectures
Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler
I'm that YouTube Philosophy Guy! Find more than 3,000 videos in my main channel. Support my video and podcast work! https://www.patreon.com/sadler or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM Learn more about this podcast channel - https://youtu.be/qRvL0gqlyrw and https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/the-sadlers-lectures-podcast Due to popular demand - and with the work underwritten by my Patreon supporters - I have been converting my videos into MP3 files listeners can listen to anywhere they ...
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Michael Knowles and special guests discuss great literature that has shaped Western Civilization.
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Discussion of Book I of the NE in relation to the rest of the text and to Aristotle’s philosophy in general. Cover art photo provided by Tim Arterbury on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@tim_arterbury
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The New Thinkery is a podcast devoted to political philosophy and its history, along with its many guises in literature, film, and human experience generally. Named after Socrates’ infamous “Thinkery” in Aristophanes’ Clouds, The New Thinkery strikes a balance between the seriousness of academia and the playfulness of casual conversation among friends.
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Each week we read through, summarize, and explain a different text in Philosophy.
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Check us out at podcast.memod.com for our entire library of podcast episodes! Each week we do a deep dive into a nonfiction bestseller. Self-Help. Psychology. Business. Philosophy. In around 30 minutes we cover the major themes and ideas of a recent hit, an important work, or an ancient classic. The result: concentrated wisdom that goes beyond the headlines, makes you think and helps you succeed in relationships, career, or business. The podcast builds on the work of Tom Butler-Bowdon, autho ...
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Welcome to the Class. Here, we'll explore some of the most influential/classical books and documents ever written on the subject of political philosophy, Religion, Literature, and more. Most importantly, we will try to understand their modern relevance. This podcast serves two primary purposes, which I'd like to refer to as my "dual motivations." Firstly, it fulfills a personal and somewhat self-serving objective: to archive all the valuable insights and teachings I've had the privilege of r ...
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106-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 10-12
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Eric Taxier and I finish our discussion of Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics by examining Aristotle's analysis of temperance.
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 5 - Unjust Actions & Injustice As A Vice
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean EthicsSpecifically it focuses on book 5 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and there is a parallel discussion in book 1 of the Rhetoric), where Aristotle distinguishes degrees of responsibility for bad or harmful actions (between mischanc…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Rose And Dragonfly's Naming - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "Dragonfly", and focuses specifically on the interactions between the local witch Rose and the Dragonfly, centering mainly on their conversations about magic, power, and nam…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Ged, Irioth, And Emer - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "On The High Marsh", and discusses the point where the archmage Ged shows up, seeking the broken former mage, now animal healer, Irioth. He relates the story of Irioth's ter…
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This week, in observance of Constitution Day, the guys wax poetic about the virtues of the Founding... is what you probably expected this to say. Instead, Greg wrote an entire academic paper about Lincoln's hushed critique of the Founding, so the guys sit down to unpack the paper's core arguments, as well as how Lincoln was, and wasn't, successful …
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Irioth The Animal Healer - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "On The High Marsh", and discusses an animal healer whose true name is Irioth. He is clearly a damaged person, both in his emotions and in his thinking, and connects more wi…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Diamond's Choice Of Life - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "Darkrose and Diamond", and discusses the character Diamond's choice between different possible paths in life: magic, music, and the family business. These choices also dete…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Gontish Magic And The Earthquake - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Bones Of The Earth", and discusses the mage Ogion (an important character in the earlier Earthsea books), and his own teacher Dulse. In this video we look at the Gontis…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Dulse Teaching Silence - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Bones Of The Earth", and discusses the backstory of an important character in the earlier Earthsea novels, Ogion the mage of Re Albi. This video focuses on Ogion's teac…
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Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16
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This week, the guys are joined once again by Dr. Eric Adler, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Maryland, to talk about the beginning of Livy's History of Rome. Given Rome's impressively long history, it's no surprise that it took Livy over 140 books to recount it just up to the beginning of the Roman Empire. The group tackle Livy…
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105-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 8-9
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Eric Taxier and I continue to discuss Aristotle's take on courage.
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bk 3 - Five States Similar To Courage - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean EthicsSpecifically it focuses on book 3 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where he discusses five states or conditions that resemble courage, but which are not genuine courage, in book 3.To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site …
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Ursula K Leguin, From Elfland To Poughkeepsie - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's essay, From Elfland To Poughkeepsie, found in her essay collection The Language of the NightIt discusses the nature of genuinely valuable fantasy literature, particularly in relation to style, as opposed to literature that while it might be classified as "fantasy" doe…
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Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
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This week, the guys are joined by Walter Sterling, the freshly minted president of St. John's College in Santa Fe to discuss one of the twentieth century's most important poems, T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The group work their way through the work's oppressive density and prose to get at the crucial themes and messages underlying it all. Plus: …
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Roke Takes Students And Masters - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", and focuses specifically on the decision by the Women of the Hand at Roke Isle to end their strategy of seclusion and to seek out worthy students of magic from…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Roke, The Hand, And The Pattern - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Finder," and examines the development of the community of mostly women magic users on the Isle of Roke, which has isolated itself from the rest of Earthsea, leaving beh…
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This episode discusses claims that Minimalism (and minimal music more widely understood) boils down to advertising and propaganda (riffing on interviews by Elliott Carter and Philip Glass). I look at some pop songs that were clearly influenced by Minimalism, some that are parallel to it, and some that are simply minimalist in some manner.…
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Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin
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It's back to school season, and to mark the occasion, the full host complement is joined by Dr. Pano Kanelos, founding president of the University of Austin. Together, the ensemble dissect key moments in Hamlet. That includes a potential recontextualization of the best-known soliloquy in the world, Hamlet's “To be or not to be” speech. Plus: a look…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Anieb's And Medra's Escape - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", specifically Otter/Medra's and Anieb's escape from the mercury mining and refining complex, and from its ruler, the evil wizard Gelluk. Anieb helps Medra resis…
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - Gelluk, Quicksilver, & The King - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Finder", specifically how Medra/Otter is taken from his parents and placed as a slave in the service of the evil, and insane wizard Gelluk, who thinks mercury is the ke…
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This episode uses Minimalism (and specifically Terry Riley's In C) to examine the issues of temporality and repetition in music.
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This episode briefly introduces flamenco music and then touches on the compas--the approach to meter within this music--by specifically looking at the genre of the siguiriyas.
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Ursula K Leguin, Tales From Earthsea - The Dangerous Isles Of Earthsea - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses the science fiction and fantasy author, Ursula K. Leguin's book, Tales From Earthsea, the fifth of six Earthsea booksIt focuses specifically on the story "The Finder," and focuses on Leguin's depiction of Earthsea in its "dark times" hundreds of years before the narratives of the first four books, when Earthsea was divided po…
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101-Twos and Threes: Hemiola, Odd Meters, Tresillo
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This episode looks at the rhythmic juxtaposition or superimposition of groupings of twos and threes. I discuss hemiola, odd meters, and various figures related to the tresillo (3+3+2).
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David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Human Nature And Moral Philosophy
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingIt focuses specifically on his discussion in section 1 of the work, specifically the range of matters that moral philosophy, as Hume understands it, studies, which includes not just ethics, but also human psychology, motivations…
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David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Pleading Metaphysics Case - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingIt focuses specifically on his discussion in section 1 of the work, specifically where Hume notes that too many people in his time wish to reject "metaphysics" entirely, leading him to plead the case of metaphysics, providing ju…
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Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han
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Joining Alex and Greg this week is Professor Robert Wyllie of Ashland University. He guides the group through the thought-provoking world of Byung-Chul Han, one of today's most interesting living philosophers, using his new ciritcal introduction to Han as a baseline. Professor Wyllie delves especially into Han's early work, exploring his weighty id…
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Will Witt: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Would you sell your soul to stay young forever? In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man’s wish for eternal youth is granted while his portrait ages in his place. As Dorian indulges in a life of hedonism, his portrait reveals the grotesque toll of his moral corruption. Join Michael Knowles and Will Witt as the…
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David Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Easy Vs Abstruse Philosophy - Sadler's Lectures
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern empiricist philosopher David Hume' Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingIt focuses specifically on his discussion in section 1 of the work, specifically the distinction Hume makes from the very first paragraph between two different modes of engaging in moral philosophy. One of these is what he calls…
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