Best Thinkers By Gregory B Sadler Podcasts (2025)

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Why Stoics Should Not Be Indifferent to the Indifferents - Sadler's Lectures 16:18

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my invited talk at the first Stoicon-X Brasil online conference. Due to technical issues, I provided a live presentation (translation provided by participants) to the conference. In this presentation, I briefly present the Stoic doctrine of the indifferents (adiaphoria), namely that Stoics view many things as neither good nor bad, but are indiffere…

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Early Christian Thinkers On Anger - Sadler's Lectures 15:58

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This is my relatively short talk given during the 2025 Plato's Academy multidisciplinary conference: The Philosophy and Psychology of Anger, during which I discuss some of the useful insights and practices early Christian thinkers (2nd-5th Century CE) can provide us. These don't require one to be committed to Christianity and can be applied by a wi…

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The Scope of Genuine Courage In Stoicism - Sadler's Lectures 10:05

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This is a talk I was invited to provide to the inaugural 2021 Stoicon-X Military conference, held online. I chose as my topic the scope of genuine courage, a topic of considerable importance but also frequent misunderstandings within professions like that of the military. In this talk I discuss what courage is and what it is for, the scope of coura…

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How Should Stoics Respond When Bad Things Happen To Other People - Sadler's Lectures 14:38

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This is the recording of my short presentation and the Q&A at the second Conversations With Modern Stoicism event, hosted in July 2023 by Phil Yanov. Asked to give a short and provocative presentation about an issue that arises in the everyday applications of Stoicism, I chose to focus on a common mistake and distortion of Stoic philosophy and prac…

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Rainer Maria Rilke on Solitude, Slowing Down, and Making Space - Sadler's Lectures 21:25

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This is a podcast of a guest sermon, given by invitation to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills.A guest sermon invited by the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills, Aug 9, 2015. In it, I discuss Rainer Maria Rilke's conception of "solitude" (Einsamkeit), and its relevance to our contemporary lives. Explaining how the t…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Knowledge As A Cause Of Love 12:45

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 27, "The Causes Of Love", and examines his discussions in article 2, which centers on whether and how knowledge can be a cause of love.To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler…

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"Whoever is Angry with His Brother” Early Christian Insights on Anger - Sadler's Lectures 20:28

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This is a podcast of a guest sermon, given by invitation to the Unitarian Universalist Community of Rock Tavern. In it, I discuss anger as a common problem not only of our own times, but of all times. Christian teachings on anger present us with some "hard sayings," and several 4th century thinkers -- John Cassian, Augustine of Hippo, and John Chry…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Likeness As A Cause Of Love 12:38

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 27, "The Causes Of Love", and examines his discussions in article 3, which centers on whether and how likeness (similitudo) is a cause of love, particularly between similar people. He addresses the issue raise…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Causes Of Love - Sadler's Lectures 13:56

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 27, "The Causes Of Love", and examines his discussions in articles 1 and 4, which center on the issues whether goodness in some sense is a cause of love and whether any other passion is the case of love. Aquin…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Love, Dilection, Charity, and Friendship - Sadler's Lectures 15:14

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part of the second part, question 26 "Of Love", and examines his discussions in articles 3-4, which center on different senses or modalities of love (amor). He makes a distinction between four terms: love, dilection (dilecti…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Love, The Appetites, and Passion - Sadler's Lectures 15:38

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part of the second part, question 26 "Of Love", and examines his discussions in articles 1-2, which center on determining where love is within the things and specifically within human being. Thomas will frame this in terms o…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - God Loving Some Things More - Sadler's Lectures 16:15

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 20, "God's Love", and examines his discussions in articles 3-4, which center on the issues of whether God loves some things more than others or not, and whether God loves better things more than others. For Th…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - God's Love For Other Things - Sadler's Lectures 16:30

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 20, "God's Love", and examines his discussion in article 2, which examines the question whether God loves things other than God. Thomas considers four main lines of reasoning that would say that God either doe…

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Whether Love Is In God - Sadler's Lectures 16:00

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the medieval Christian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1st part, question 20 "God's Love", and examines on his discussion in article 1, which addresses the issue whether love is in God. Aquinas considers several arguments against love being in God and addresses each of them. He also…

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Heloise and Abelard - Letters 5-6 - Struggling Against Passion - Sadler's Lectures 19:31

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter AbelardIt focuses specifically on the fifth and sixth letters, which are by Heloise and Abelard respectfully. In these letters both of the married lovers have opted for leaving their previous a…

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 4 - Love, Despair, and Repentance - Sadler's Lectures 13:38

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter AbelardIt focuses specifically on the fourth letter, which is by Heloise. In this letter Heloise reaffirms her love for her husband Abelard, and asserts that life will have little value or attr…

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 3 - Love, Virtue, Duty, and God - Sadler's Lectures 18:01

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter AbelardIt focuses specifically on the third letter, which is by Abelard. It discusses Heloise's proposal that although they have taken monastic vows, they can rightly enjoy some married life to…

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 2 - Married Love and Religious Life - Sadler's Lectures 16:56

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter AbelardIt focuses specifically on the second letter, which is by Heloise. It discusses the arguments that she advances in the letter, which center on her view that they can continue to enjoy th…

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 1 - A History Of Abelard's Calamities - Sadler's Lectures 23:13

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter AbelardIt focuses specifically on the first letter, which is by Abelard. It discusses the consolation Abelard attempts to provide his fried by recounting the story of his life, which includes h…

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Seneca, Letter 109 - Fellowship And Wise People - Sadler's Lectures 17:45

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 109It focuses specifically on whether or not a wise person, according to the Stoics, would want or need to be involved with other people, particularly other wise people, to which his answer (perhaps surprisingly to some) is yes. He provi…

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Seneca, Letter 99 - Consolation For Loss Of A Child - Sadler's Lectures 18:32

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 99In this letter, after a brief introductory paragraph, Seneca reproduces a letter sent to a different correspondent Marullus when he had lost a young child. Although Seneca says that his goal is not to console but rather to offer critic…

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Seneca, Letter 6 - Friendship, Progress, and Sharing Knowledge - Sadler's Lectures 14:11

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 6It focuses specifically on how we make moral progress, and that we ought to want to share that progress with our friends. He also clarifies that when we learn something we ought to want to share that as well with our friends. A better w…

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Seneca, Letter 3 - True and False Friendship - Sadler's Lectures 13:33

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 3It focuses specifically on Seneca discussing a paradox of calling someone a friend but not trusting them with information. This leads Seneca to say that his correspondent, Lucilius doesn't seem to know what genuine friendship really is …

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Soren Kierkegaard The Present Age - Silence, Speaking, and Chatter - Sadler's Lectures 18:30

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher, essayist, and theologian, Søren Kierkegaard's review essay "The Present Age" contained in his review of Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present AgeIt focuses specifically on what Kierkegaard calls the "nullification of the passionate disjunction between being silent and spe…

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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Wit, Judgement, And Fancy - Sadler's Lectures 15:32

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work LeviathanIt focuses specifically on first part of chapter 8 where he discusses what he calls "intellectual virtues", meaning the abilities of the mind that people praise, which he frames in terms of "wit", and distinguishes into natural and artificial. Natural wit in t…

Thinkers By Gregory B Sadler Podcasts

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Sadler's Lectures

Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler

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Why Stoics Should Not Be Indifferent to the Indifferents - Sadler's Lectures 16:18

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Early Christian Thinkers On Anger - Sadler's Lectures 15:58

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The Scope of Genuine Courage In Stoicism - Sadler's Lectures 10:05

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How Should Stoics Respond When Bad Things Happen To Other People - Sadler's Lectures 14:38

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Rainer Maria Rilke on Solitude, Slowing Down, and Making Space - Sadler's Lectures 21:25

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Knowledge As A Cause Of Love 12:45

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"Whoever is Angry with His Brother” Early Christian Insights on Anger - Sadler's Lectures 20:28

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Likeness As A Cause Of Love 12:38

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - The Causes Of Love - Sadler's Lectures 13:56

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Love, Dilection, Charity, and Friendship - Sadler's Lectures 15:14

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Love, The Appetites, and Passion - Sadler's Lectures 15:38

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - God Loving Some Things More - Sadler's Lectures 16:15

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - God's Love For Other Things - Sadler's Lectures 16:30

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Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae - Whether Love Is In God - Sadler's Lectures 16:00

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Heloise and Abelard - Letters 5-6 - Struggling Against Passion - Sadler's Lectures 19:31

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 4 - Love, Despair, and Repentance - Sadler's Lectures 13:38

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 3 - Love, Virtue, Duty, and God - Sadler's Lectures 18:01

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 2 - Married Love and Religious Life - Sadler's Lectures 16:56

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 1 - A History Of Abelard's Calamities - Sadler's Lectures 23:13

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Seneca, Letter 109 - Fellowship And Wise People - Sadler's Lectures 17:45

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Seneca, Letter 99 - Consolation For Loss Of A Child - Sadler's Lectures 18:32

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Seneca, Letter 6 - Friendship, Progress, and Sharing Knowledge - Sadler's Lectures 14:11

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Seneca, Letter 3 - True and False Friendship - Sadler's Lectures 13:33

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Soren Kierkegaard The Present Age - Silence, Speaking, and Chatter - Sadler's Lectures 18:30

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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - Wit, Judgement, And Fancy - Sadler's Lectures 15:32