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Six Podcast Lectures on G.W.F. Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic

One of the most commonly read, taught, and referenced sections of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is what gets called the "Master-Slave Dialectic".  It is an early part of the portion of the work called "Self-Consciousness", and some of that section is really needed in order to make full sense of the discussion centering on the master and slave (or lord and bondsman) dynamic.

Some time back, I created a set of podcast lectures leading through those paragraphs from the Self-Consciousness se...

Six Lecture Videos on Michel Foucault's Technologies of the Self

One of the texts that I've taught in my classes in the past, but never produced any lecture videos about until nowis Michel Foucault's piece, Technologies of the Self.  It fits in particularly well with one class I'm teaching this semester for Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.  It's titled "Philosophy, Mindfulness, and Life, but the class mainly focuses on Philosophy As A Way Of Life.

That's a term popularized by 20th century French philosopher Pierre Hadot, but as as approach towards philos...

Ten Podcast Episodes on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism

 

One text that I teach frequently in my classes is John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. Years back, I produced a set of short core concept lecture videos covering the main ideas Mill sets out in that short but important work.  My students have been using them for quite some time, but they are just a fraction of the viewers that have watched those videos in order to better understand the text.

Last year, I added a new set of resources on this text, taking the lecture videos and converting them into ...

Year Six Of Worlds of Speculative Fiction Begins Today!

We announced the lineup for the Worlds of Speculative Fiction monthly series this year a bit earlier in the week.  You can see the full schedule here, if you'd like to.  Today, we kick year six of the series off with our session on the Chinese science fiction author, Liu Cixin!

We start at Noon Central Time with my discussion of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy of novels.  That will take place as a video premiere on my YouTube channel, and we'll be engaging in live chat on that vid...

Worlds of Speculative Fiction Selections Set For 2021

After soliciting viewer, subscriber, and supporter suggestions for the final three slots in the monthly Worlds of Speculative Fiction series for this new year, and then having a run-off vote for the final slot, we now have a full line-up for the series.

Each month - usually the second Saturday - we will focus on one specific author, the narrative world of some of their works, and philosophical themes found in their writings. These events we're holding online -until it is completely safe to return...

Eight Podcast Episodes on Epicurus' Principal Doctrines and Letters

Epicurus is one of the thinkers whose works I teach fairly often.  Most of my Introduction to Philosophy classes will include a day or two devoted to Epicurus and Epicureanism, and in one of the classes I'm teaching next semester, Philosophy, Mindfulness, and Life, we will be spending about two weeks on the Epicurean tradition.

Quite a while back, I produced a series of lecture videos on Epicurus' main ideas (you can check out the playlist here), and over the last year and a half, I've been takin...

Ten Podcast Episodes on Martin Heidegger's What Is Metaphysics?

When I polled my viewers, listeners, subscribers, and supporters recently, about which thinker I should produce new podcast episodes on first, Martin Heidegger edged out Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aristotle, and Cicero.  So earlier this month, I created ten new Sadler's Lectures episodes on his seminal lecture, What Is Metaphysics?

Each of the Sadler's Lectures episodes are produced by taking one of my core concept videos, improving the sound quality, and editing out pauses, "ums" and "ahs," and any othe...

Worlds of Speculative Fiction Series 2021 - Vote on Final Author

As I've done for several years now for the Worlds of Speculative Fiction monthly series, I've solicited suggestions about authors my viewers, subscribers, and supporters would like to see added.  This year, I got a wide range of suggestions, but only two authors got suggested by more than one person.  So both of them get an automatic "in" to the 2021 lineup.

Those authors are Stanislaw Lem and Jorge Luis Borges.  2021 marks the 100 year anniversary of Lem's birth, so it makes excellent sense to d...

Results of the Vote - Heidegger Podcast Episodes Coming Up Next

Today, I've finished releasing my latest series of podcast episodes in the Sadler's Lectures podcast, a set on Simone de Beauvoir's work, The Second Sex . I wanted to get some input from viewers, subscribers, followers, and supporters about which thinkers they would like to see the next podcast episodes focus on. So I created and ran polls on my YouTube channel, Patreon page, and Twitter stream. I weighted Patreon supporters' votes much more heavily, since they make a monthly commitment to un...

Ten Videos on Seneca's Letters

Earlier this summer, I created seven new core concept videos on a selection of letters from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca, in which he ranges over a number of key topics, not just in Stoic, but also Aristotelian, Platonic, and other philosophical traditions.  Each video focuses on one of the Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius.

Adding these to the three I had produced previously for my Intro to Philosophy students, the sequence now covers a number of key topics, distinctions, and arguments in met...