Mar 10
Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Finite Individuals and Totalities - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which cente ... Show More
16m 25s
Mar 9
Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Ambiguity Of The Future - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which looks ... Show More
15m 14s
Mar 8
Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity - Sacrifice, Usefulness, and Human Beings
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion at the end of the section "The Antinomies Of Action", wh ... Show More
14m 45s
Sep 2025
The struggle for the good life | Massimo Pigliucci on ancient philosophy for the modern era
<p>We all want to live the good life. But how many of us can claim to be truly content? Join philosopher and evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci as he argues that pleasure, character, and a healthy dose of doubt, form the basis of the good life, and that purpose in life is c ... Show More
29m 29s
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
Specifically it examines his discussion of the analogy he provides in that work between the Thing-In-Itself (Ding-in-sich) and the free human being, who exists both as a phenomenal and a noumenal being
To support ... Show More
