Jul 3

Plutarch, On Tranquility - Life As Mixed Good And Bad - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility This episode focuses specifically on the importance of recognizing that life will be a mix of good and bad things, rather than primarily good things, as s ... Show More

15m 38s

Jul 2

Plutarch, On Tranquility - Making Use Of Things And Circumstances - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility This episode focuses specifically on his examination of how we make use of or deal with (khēsthai, in Greek) things or matters (pragmata) abd the circumst ... Show More

13m 25s

Jun 29

Plutarch, On Being A Busybody - Developing Self-Control Over Curiosity - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Being A Busybody This episode focuses specifically on he importance of developing self-control (enkrateia) in order to curb excessive and harmful curiosity. We do thi ... Show More

17m 26s

Oct 2009

The materialist philosophy

De Sade's status as a literary philosopher and his relationship to materialist philosophy is expertly analysed, along with several pertinent readings from his works.

14m 55s

Jun 13

Melissa Lane on Plato, Rule, and Office

Melissa Lane, a classics scholar as well as a philosopher, discusses some key features of Plato's political philosophy and shows its continuing relevance.

15m 4s

Mar 2011

3. Hume and the Standard of Taste

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.

55m 58s

May 28

Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'

In this extended extract from their series 'Conversations in Philosophy', part of the LRB's Close Readings podcast, Jonathan Rée and James Wood look at one of Friedrich Nietzsche's early essays, 'Schopenhauer as Educator'. For Nietzsche, Schopenhauer’s genius lay not in his ideas ... Show More

31m 43s

Jan 2025

Untimely Reflections #32: Dr. Gregory Sadler - On Stoicism & Philosophy as a Guide to Life

Very pleased to finally be joined by Gregory Sadler on the podcast! Greg is one of the more popular teachers of philosophy in the modern age, and given his recent courses on Stoicism, we decided to make that the focus. I hope you all enjoy our conversation: about philosophy as a ... Show More

1h 34m

Apr 1

Crime and Punishment - Book Summary

"A Philosophical Masterpiece on the Boundaries Between Good and Evil" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Category: Philosophy

31m 45s

Nov 2024

Philosophy Series: Marx on History, Communism, & Political Economy

Breht listens to, reflects on, and critically engages with a public lecture by the late philosopher Michael Sugrue entititled "Marx on Alienation and Ideology". Professor Sugrue passed away recently, and Breht has always found his free, public lectures on philosophy to be helpful ... Show More

2h 14m

Aug 2024

Revisiting Aquinas' Five Ways w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., Prof. Robert Koons, & Prof. Daniel Bonevac

Are Aquinas' Five Ways for proving the existence of God still relevant today? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Robert Koona & Prof. Daniel Bonevac about new insights that contemporary schola ... Show More

44m 8s

Dec 2023

Schopenhauer en dialogue... 3/4 : Avec Nietzsche : morale, religion, faut-il s’en débarrasser ?

durée : 00:58:20 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann - Nietzsche reprend à Schopenhauer sa métaphysique du vouloir-vivre pour en explorer une autre voie. S'il a une dette envers lui, Nietzsche a surtout critiqué avec virulence le philosophe du pessimisme, notamment sur ... Show More

58m 20s

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