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Six Core Concepts on Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue

One of the thinkers whose work I teach regularly in my Ethics classes is Alasdair MacIntyre.  In addition to his essay "Plain Persons and Moral Philosophy", I like to introduce my students to portions of MacIntyre's highly influential work, After Virtue .  Years back, I produced some core concept videos on chapters 2 and 3 of that work. 

Recently, I created a sequence of videos on another chapter of After Virtue - number 14, "The Nature of the Virtues" - that often gets...

Wisdom For Life Show - Episode 8 - Balancing Autonomy and Connection

My co-host, Dan Hayes, and I have now produced eight episodes of our philosophy-focused radio show, Wisdom for Life.  The latest episode focuses on a common struggle in relationships: how to balance one's own need for autonomy, and that of one's partner, with the need for connection. 

If you'd like to listen to that episode, here it is!


You can also check out all of the previous episodes as well. Each is about an hour of dialogue and discussion focused on making useful concepts...

May AMA (Ask Me Anything) Session at Noon Central Today

Each month I hold an online AMA - an Ask Me Anything - session for my viewers, listeners, readers, supporters, and other fans. They're hosted on YouTube Live, and I record each session so that people who would like can go back through them.
I have one coming up at Noon Central Today.  If there's a question you've been wanting to ask me, pop in to the session and I'll hopefully have an answer for you. You'll want to get your questions in early, since these sessions tend to draw a lot of...

Core Concept Playlist Split into Five Playlists

For years, I have been producing shorter (10-25 minute) videos on key ideas, distinctions, arguments, and topics in philosophy.  I use these routinely as a resource for my students in classes that I teach. 

Many other people use them as well.  Students in other people's classes watch or listen to them to help them understand their assigned material.  Lifelong learners use them to study or just brush up on philosophy.  Professors sometimes assign them to their own...

Sixteen Podcast Episodes on Epictetus' Discourses

When I first started my podcast, Sadler's Lectures, one of the authors I created episodes on very early on was the great Stoic philosopher, Epictetus.  His Discourses are a must-read for anyone who wants to understand and apply Stoic philosophy.

Earlier this year, I took a poll of my readers, viewers, and listeners about who I ought to focus on next in the podcast, and Epictetus was one of the favored authors.  So I added a number of new episodes to that playlist.  There's more...

Wisdom for Life Radio Show Goes Weekly!

Earlier this year, my co-host Dan Hayes and I launched a new radio show.  It's called Wisdom for Life, and it focuses on taking ideas from practical philosophy and applying them to issues, challenges, and problems of everyday life.  We draw upon a number of different philosophical traditions - Stoicism, Aristotelianism, and Existentialism in particular - as well as insights from various psychological approaches.

Our latest show, episode 5 - devoted to the topic What Makes...

Seven Podcast Lectures on William James' The Will To Believe

One of the works I teach fairly routinely in my Introduction to Philosophy classes - and also when I occasionally teach Philosophy of Religion - is William James' essay, The Will To Believe. 

It is quite an eye-opening text for my students, since it proposes something that they are surprised a philosopher would say, namely that there are some cases - having to do with matters that we believe or don't - where we not only can decide the matter on the basis of our feelings, our gut hunches,...

Eight Lecture Videos on Plato's Republic book 4

A number of years back, I created two core concept videos - drawn from my classroom discussions - about some of the key issues in Plato's Republic book 4.  This is a particularly important part of the work, for in it, Socrates finally makes good on his promise to tell the other characters of the dialogue his answer to the central question - what is justice?

All of Socrates' lead-up in sketching an ideal city (actually, if you read closely in book 2, the second-best ideal city) - with the...

Short Piece In The Stoic - A Time to Practice Stoic Virtues

Here's my short piece recently published in The Stoic.  I plan to expand it and publish that version in my Medium publishing site in the next week or so.  For the time being, here's the current version.

Widespread Shutdowns At the time that I write this, midway through March, responses to COVID19 have shut down a good part of Milwaukee. As in many other places, students have been sent home from schools, colleges, and universities and classes have shifted online. Concerts and...

AMA (Ask Me Anything) Session Coming Up Today

Each month I hold an online AMA - an Ask Me Anything - session for my viewers, listeners, readers, supporters, and other fans.  They're hosted on YouTube Live, and I record each session so that people who would like can go back through them.

I have one coming up a bit later on today, so if there's a question you've been wanting to ask me, pop in to the session and I'll hopefully have an answer for you.  You'll want to get your questions in early, since these sessions tend to draw a...