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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The Ends Of Discourse - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapter 7, where he identifies and discusses what he calls the ends of mental and…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Simple Passions Diversified - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on on the second part of chapter 6, where Hobbes tells us that the basic passions ar…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Motion, Endeavor, and Passions - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapter 6, in which Hobbes develops his basic philosophy of human and animal acti…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Reason and Science - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapter 5, where he examines in detail what reason or reasoning is, and what scie…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Names, Consequences, and Definitions - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapter 4, where a number of different sorts of "names" (or terms) are distinguis…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Human Discourse - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapters 3 and 4, where Hobbes discusses mental and verbal discourse, that is the…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Sense and Imagination - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on chapters 1 and 2 of the work, where he develops a clearly committed empiricist an…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Poul Anderson - Of Thud And Blunder - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century American science fiction and fantasy author Poul Anderson's essay "Of Thud And Blunder", which begins by parodying a passage of swords and sorce…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods book 2 - For The Sake Of Rational Beings - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Nature Of The Gods, which critically examines Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic perspectiv…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods book 2 - Providence And Individuals - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Nature Of The Gods, which critically examines Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic perspectiv…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago