The Sadler’s Lectures Podcast

1,400+ short lectures on topics, texts, and thinkers in Philosophy, Literature, Psychology, and Religion

Responding to requests from viewers and subscribers of my YouTube channel, who asked me to provide my content in podcast form, I started converting my shorter core concept videos into Sadler’s Lectures podcast episodes in 2018. I also have converted a number of my Speculative Fiction Studies videos into podcasts. At present, I have produced and released over 1,300 Sadler’s Lectures podcast episodes!

The primary platform that the Sadler’s Lectures is hosted on at present is Soundcloud. You can find ALL of the episodes there, download them, subscribe to the podcast, and share episodes from there. I put out about an additional 25–30 new episodes each month. They are organized into playlists, which you can access by clicking the links below.

Ancient Philosophy (Presocratics and Socratics)

• Parmenides  —  Fragments (3 episodes)

• Heraclitus  —  Fragments (4 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Apology (6 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Meno (7 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Euthyphro (3 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Crito (4 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Phaedo (10 episodes)

• Plato —  The Gorgias (2 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Symposium (22 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Republic book 1 (4 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Republic book 2 (4 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Republic book 4 (8 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Republic books 6–7 (4 episodes)

• Plato  —  The Republic book 10 (5 episodes)

• Xenophon — The Symposium (1 episode)

Ancient Philosophy (Aristotle)

• Aristotle  —  Metaphysics book 1 (11 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Categories (32 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Politics book 1 (6 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Rhetoric book 2 (10 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Poetics (14 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics books 1–2 (15 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics book 3 (7 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics books 3–4 (11 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics book 5 (8 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics book 6 (12 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics book 7 (12 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics books 8–9 (18 episodes)

• Aristotle  —  Nicomachean Ethics book 10 (7 episodes)

Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Hellenistic and Roman)

• Epicurus  —  Principal Doctrines and Letters (8 episodes)

• Cicero  —  Stoic Paradoxes (5 episodes)

• Cicero  —  On Fate (6 episodes)

• Cicero  —  On Friendship (12 episodes)

• Cicero — On Duties, book 1 (22 episodes)

• Cicero  —  On The Ends, book 1 (8 episodes)

• Cicero  —  On The Ends, book 3 (6 episodes)

• Cicero —  On The Nature Of The Gods, book 1 (11 episodes)

• Lucretius  —  On The Order Of Things (5 episodes)

• Seneca  —  Letters (18 episodes)

• Seneca  —  On Anger (30 episodes)

• Seneca  —  On Shortness of Life (5 episodes)

• Seneca — On The Happy Life (9 episodes)

• Epictetus — Discourses (46 episodes)

• Plutarch — How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend (9 episodes)

• Plutarch —  On Having Many Friends (3 episodes)

• Plutarch —  On Controlling Anger (8 episodes)

• Cynic Epistles (4 episodes)

• Marcus Aurelius  —  Meditations (13 episodes)

• Diogenes Laertes  —  Lives of the Philosophers, book 2 (5 episodes)

• Diogenes Laertes  —  Lives of the Philosophers, book 6 (3 episodes)

• Lucian of Samosata  —  The Cynic (1 episode)

• Julian The Emperor  —  Orations (3 episodes)

Medieval Philosophy, Literature, and Theology

• Lactantius  —  On The Anger Of God (10 episodes)

• Prudentius  —  The Psychomachia (3 episodes)

• John Cassian  —  The Institutes (5 episodes)

• John Chrysostom  —  Homilies (5 episodes)

• Augustine of Hippo  —  The Confessions (18 episodes)

• Augustine of Hippo  —  On Free Choice of the Will book 1 (6 episodes)

• Augustine of Hippo  —  City of God books 5 and 11 (5 episodes)

• Augustine of Hippo  —  City of God book 19 (5 episodes)

• Alcuin of York  —  On Virtues and Vices (11 episodes)

• Anselm of Canterbury  —  The Monologion (15 episodes)

• Anselm of Canterbury  —  The Proslogion (5 episodes)

• Anselm of Canterbury  —  On Truth (8 episodes)

• Anselm of Canterbury  —  On Freedom of Choice (7 episodes)

• Thomas Aquinas  —  Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, question 2 (8 episodes)

• Thomas Aquinas  —  Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, question 2 (5 episodes)

• Thomas Aquinas —  Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, question 46 (7 episodes)

• Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologiae, Prima Secundae Partis, questions 90-91 and 94 (4 episodes)

Early Modern Philosophy

• Michel De Montaigne — Essays (16 episodes)

• Rene Descartes  —  Discourse on Method (9 episodes)

• Rene Descartes  —  Meditations on First Philosophy (21 episodes)

• Thomas Hobbes  —  Leviathan (7 episodes)

• Blaise Pascal  —  Pensees (15 episodes)

• Joseph Butler  —  Sermons 8 and 9 (8 episodes)

• David Hume  —  Treatise on Human Nature (3 episodes)

• David Hume  —  Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (25 episodes)

• Immanuel Kant  —  Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (16 episodes)

• Immanuel Kant —  Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics (41 episodes)

• Jeremy Bentham  —  Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation (7 episodes)

19th Century Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology

• G.W.F. Hegel  —  Phenomenology of Spirit (6 episodes)

• Arthur Schopenhauer  —  On The Basis of Morality (11 episodes)

• Soren Kierkegaard  —  The Crowd Is Untruth (2 episodes)

• Soren Kierkegaard  —  The Present Age (6 episodes)

• Soren Kierkegaard  —  Fear and Trembling (9 episodes)

• John Stuart Mill  —  Utilitarianism (10 episodes)

• John Stuart Mill  —  On Liberty (11 episodes)

• Leo Tolstoy  —  What Is Art? (4 episodes)

• Fyodor Dostoevsky  —  Notes From Underground (7 episodes)

• Fyodor Dostoevsky  —  The Brothers Karamazov (9 episodes)

• Friedrich Nietzsche  —  Truth and Lies In An Extra-Moral Sense (9 episodes)

• Friedrich Nietzsche  —  Thus Spoke Zarathustra part 1 (10 episodes)

• Friedrich Nietzsche  —  The Genealogy of Morals (10 episodes)

• William James  —  The Will To Believe (8 episodes)

• William James  —  Pragmatism, Lecture 2 (5 episodes)

20th Century Existentialist Philosophy and Literature

• Lev Shestov  —  All Things Are Possible (9 episodes)

• Rainer Maria Rilke  —  Letters to a Young Poet (6 episodes)

• Franz Kafka — The Metamorphosis (6 episodes)

• Franz Kafka  —  In The Penal Colony (3 episodes)

• Franz Kafka  — On Parables (1 episode)

• Miguel de Unamuno  —  Tragic Sense of Life (8 episodes)

• Martin Heidegger  —  Being and Time (8 episodes)

• Martin Heidegger  —  What Is Metaphysics? (10 episodes)

• Martin Heidegger  —  Plato’s Doctrine of Truth (5 episodes)

• Gabriel Marcel  —  On The Ontological Mystery (9 episodes)

• Jean-Paul Sartre  —  Existentialism Is A Humanism (6 episodes)

• Simone de Beauvoir  —  The Second Sex (6 episodes)

• Simone de Beauvoir  —  The Ethics of Ambiguity (9 episodes)

• Albert Camus  —  The Myth of Sisyphus (9 episodes)

• Frantz Fanon  —  Black Skin, White Masks (6 episodes)

Other 20th Century Continental Philosophy

• Max Scheler — Ressentiment (19 episodes)

• Michel Foucault  —  Technologies of the Self (6 episodes)

• Michel Foucault  —  The Subject and Power (7 episodes)

• Gilles Deleuze  —  Bartleby, Or The Formula (4 episodes)

20th Century Psychology and Philosophy of Emotion

• Sigmund Freud  —  Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (6 episodes)

• Lawrence Kohlberg —  Moral Development (3 episodes)

• Martin Luther King Jr. —  Unfulfilled Hopes (1 episode)

• Audre Lorde  —  The Uses of Anger (3 episodes)

20th Century Literature and Literary Analysis

• J.R.R. Tolkien  —  On Fairy Stories (11 episodes)

• H. P. Lovecraft — The Call Of Cthulhu (10 episodes)

• Jorge Luis Borges — Complete Fictions (20 episodes)

• Philip K. Dick  —  The Android And The Human (4 episodes)

• Philip K. Dick  —  Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (11 episodes)

• Philip K Dick — The Man In The High Castle (19 episodes)

• Philip K Dick — Ubik (18 tracks)

• Ursula K Leguin — A Wizard Of Earthsea (10 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin — The Tombs of Atuan (11 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin  —  The Farthest Shore (12 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin — Tehanu (12 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin — Tales From Earthsea (14 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin — The Other Wind (12 episodes)

• Ursula K Leguin — The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1 episode)

• N. K. Jemisin — Those Who Stay And Fight (1 episode)

20th Century Analytic Philosophy

• A.J. Ayer  —  Language, Truth, and Logic (10 episodes)

• John Wisdom — Gods (6 episodes)

• Flew, Hare, and Mitchell - The University Discussion (4 episodes)

• W.D. Ross  —  The Right and the Good (10 episodes)

• Karl Popper - Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition (5 episodes)

• John Rawls  —  A Theory of Justice (4 episodes)

• James Rachels  —  The Challenge of Cultural Relativism (4 episodes)

• Judith Jarvis Thompson  —  The Trolley Problem (5 episodes)

• George Dickie — What is Art? & What Is Anti-Art? (5 episodes)

• Mary Midgley  —  Trying Out One’s New Sword (2 episodes)

• Rosemarie Tong — Carol Gilligan’s Ethics of Care (4 episodes)

• Virginia Held — Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory (4 episodes)

• Richard Dawkins — The Selfish Gene, ch. 11 (3 episodes)

• Peter Singer — The Most Good You Can Do (3 episodes)

• Peter Singer — The Biological Basis of Ethics (5 episodes)

20th-21st Century Applied And Professional Ethics

• Robert Audi  —  Virtue Ethics As A Resource In Business (5 episodes)

• Robert Audi  — The Ethical Significance of Cost-Benefit Analysis In Business and the Professions (5 episodes)

• Silke Machold, et al  —  Corporate Governance and Ethics: A Feminist Perspective (3 episodes)

• Milton Friedman — The Social Responsibility Of Business Is To Increase Its Profits (3 episodes)

• Norman Bowie — A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics (4 episodes)

• John Hospers — What Libertarianism Is (2 episodes)

20th-21st Century History of Philosophy/Philosophy As A Way of Life

• Pierre Hadot  —  Philosophy as a Way of Life (12 episodes)

• Alasdair MacIntyre — Designing Our Descendants (1 episode)

• Alasdair MacIntyre  —  After Virtue (6 episodes)

• Alasdair MacIntyre — Plain Persons and Moral Philosophy (7 episodes)

• Alasdair MacIntyre  —  How To Appear Virtuous Without Being So (5 episodes)

• Hannah Arendt — Lectures On Political Theory (1 episode)

• John Sellars  —  What Is Philosophy As A Way Of Life? (3 episodes)

As new playlists become available, I’ll update this page by adding them here