Best contemporary philosophical texts Podcasts (2024)

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Secret Miracle - Sadler' Lectures 16:57

5h ago16:57

16:57

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Secret Miracle" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the author Jaromir Hladík who is captured by the Nazis in their invasion of Czechoslovakia, and sentenced to death. Desiring to finish his …

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Cult Of The Phoenix - Sadler' Lectures 13:15

14h ago13:15

13:15

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Cult Of The Phoenix" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the story of a cult or sect called by names like "Cult of the Phoenix", "People of the Practice" or "People of the Secret". The group …

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Jorge Luis Borges - Averröes’ Search - Averröes’ Failure And Defeat - Sadler' Lectures 14:35

2h ago14:35

14:35

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Averröes’ Search" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the islamic philosopher's failure to determine the meanings of "comedy" and "tragedy" in his commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. E…

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Jorge Luis Borges - Averröes’ Search - The Conversation With Abu-Al-Hasan - Sadler' Lectures 16:58

1h ago16:58

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Averröes’ Search" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on a fictional characterization of the Islamic philosopher Ibn-Rushd, also known as Averroes in the Latin West, who's work on his commentary on…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir - Illness And Misfortune The Zahir Brings - Sadler's Lectures 15:54

13h ago15:54

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Zahir" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the effect that the Zahir exerts on the Borges of the story. He received it as a coin given in change purchasing a brandy. He then deliberately lose…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir - Teodelina’s Wake And Being Given The Zahir - Sadler's Lectures 13:45

9h ago13:45

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Zahir" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on how the Borges of the story ends up getting the Zahir as a bit of change when drinking brandy after the wake of the socialite Teodelina. As a coin, …

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins - Sadler's Lectures 17:04

1d ago17:04

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Circular Ruins" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative and the key philosophical themes of this tale. It centers on a sorcerer who has the desire to dream another human being into …

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Jorge Luis Borges, Three Versions Of Judas - Sadler's Lectures 15:47

4d ago15:47

15:47

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Three Versions Of Judas" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the evolving views on the character and salvific role of Judas progressively developed by a fictional Danish theologian Nils Runeberg,…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Library Of Babel - Cults And Interpretations Of Books 12:35

4d ago12:35

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Library Of Babel" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the interpretation by denizens of the library explaining the books and the universe. A number of different sects and cults arise, some of…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Library Of Babel - Library, Universe, And Language 17:46

6d ago17:46

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Library Of Babel" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the structure of the library in which human beings live their entire lives. The library is composed primarily of hexagonal cells, each of…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Theme Of The Traitor And The Hero - Sadler's Lectures 17:15

7d ago17:15

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Theme Of The Traitor And The Hero" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the several narrative frames to the story. In the deepest, a hero of the Irish revolts Fergus Kilpatrick is revealed as …

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Tlön's Disintegration Of Our World 11:44

8d ago11:44

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on how the fictional world of Tlön, in the space of a decade, captivates the people of Earth and begins to disintegrate the reality of…

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Idealism, Materialism, And Monism 19:05

9d ago19:05

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the philosophical idealism that characterizes the cultures and civilization of Tlön's countries, and the difficulty of framing a he…

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Idealism And The Civilization Of Tlön 15:35

10d ago15:35

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the ways in which the assumption of philosophical idealism, reflected in the very languages of the world of Tlön, affect not just t…

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - A Conspiracy For A Fictional World 14:36

10d ago14:36

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the discovery of a vast centuries-long project to produce, first a fictional country (Uqbar), and then a fantasy world (Tlön), carr…

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Jorge Luis Borges - Funes, His Memory - Sadler's Lectures 14:26

12d ago14:26

14:26

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "Funes, His Memory" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It narrates encounters with and speculates about the mind and projects of a young man who, after an accident, possesses a perfect memory and capacity of p…

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - The Labyrinth Of Tsui Pen - Sadlers Lectures 17:33

13d ago17:33

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative at the center of the larger story, the production of a labyrinth as a novel by Ts'ui Pen, and its translation, editi…

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - Yu Tsun, Richard Madden, & Stephen Albert 14:46

15d ago14:46

14:46

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative of the spy or secret agent genre which provides the outer shell of the more metaphysical narrative nested within it.…

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Jorge Luis Borges - The House Of Asterion - Sadler' Lectures 13:50

17d ago13:50

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The House Of Asterion" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the perspective of the legendary minotaur of Crete, who lives within the labyrinth, his house, which has fourteen or infinite doorsTo su…

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Lottery In Babylon - Sadler's Lectures 19:41

17d ago19:41

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Lottery In Babylon" which can be found in Collected Fictions. The narrator of the story, a citizen of Babylon, discusses the complex history of the Lottery, the Company that administers it, and the multiple phil…

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Knowledge, Practitioners, And Crafts - Sadler's Lectures 14:44

19d ago14:44

14:44

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1.Specifically it provides some needed context for the concepts of knowledge or crafts that get used in the arguments Socrates uses against Polemarchus and ThrasymachusTo support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadle…

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Thrasymachus' Definition Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures 9:04

21d ago9:04

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1.Specifically it examines the Sophist Thrasymachus' definition of justice as "the advantage of the stronger"To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadlerIf you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so…

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Polemarchus' Theory Of Justice, Friends & Enemies - Sadler's Lectures 20:15

23d ago20:15

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1.Specifically it examines specifically the "traditional" conception of justice articulated by Polemarchus there -- a view which says justice is doing good to friends and bad to enemies.To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www…

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Wealth, Character And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures 13:20

24d ago13:20

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 1.Specifically it examines the early discussion between Socrates and Cephalus, in which they are thinking about the relationship between wealth, good character, and happiness.To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.co…

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John Wisdom, Gods - Considering Belief In Gods - Sadlers Lectures 13:27

25d ago13:27

13:27

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century analytic philosopher John Wisdom's essay in the philosophy of religion, "Gods", found in his collection "Philosophy and Psychoanalysis".It focuses specifically on his discussion towards the end of the work, where Wisdom draws some implications of the earlier points in the article for the reason…

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Secret Miracle - Sadler' Lectures 16:57

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Cult Of The Phoenix - Sadler' Lectures 13:15

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Jorge Luis Borges - Averröes’ Search - Averröes’ Failure And Defeat - Sadler' Lectures 14:35

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Jorge Luis Borges - Averröes’ Search - The Conversation With Abu-Al-Hasan - Sadler' Lectures 16:58

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir - Illness And Misfortune The Zahir Brings - Sadler's Lectures 15:54

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir - Teodelina’s Wake And Being Given The Zahir - Sadler's Lectures 13:45

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins - Sadler's Lectures 17:04

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Jorge Luis Borges, Three Versions Of Judas - Sadler's Lectures 15:47

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Library Of Babel - Cults And Interpretations Of Books 12:35

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Library Of Babel - Library, Universe, And Language 17:46

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Theme Of The Traitor And The Hero - Sadler's Lectures 17:15

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Tlön's Disintegration Of Our World 11:44

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Idealism, Materialism, And Monism 19:05

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Idealism And The Civilization Of Tlön 15:35

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Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - A Conspiracy For A Fictional World 14:36

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Jorge Luis Borges - Funes, His Memory - Sadler's Lectures 14:26

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - The Labyrinth Of Tsui Pen - Sadlers Lectures 17:33

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden Of Forking Paths - Yu Tsun, Richard Madden, & Stephen Albert 14:46

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Jorge Luis Borges - The House Of Asterion - Sadler' Lectures 13:50

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Lottery In Babylon - Sadler's Lectures 19:41

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Knowledge, Practitioners, And Crafts - Sadler's Lectures 14:44

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Thrasymachus' Definition Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures 9:04

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Polemarchus' Theory Of Justice, Friends & Enemies - Sadler's Lectures 20:15

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Plato, Republic Book 1 - Wealth, Character And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures 13:20

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John Wisdom, Gods - Considering Belief In Gods - Sadlers Lectures 13:27

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