Isaac Asimov's Foundations Galaxy | Worlds of Speculative Fiction (lecture 5)
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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This is the fifth session in a new series of monthly lectures and discussions, featuring Dr. Gregory Sadler, and hosted by the Brookfield Public Library. The series focuses on philosophical themes in the works and world of selected classic and contemporary fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction genre authors.
We continue the series by focusing in this session on the classic science fiction author Isaac Asimov and his Foundation series of novels.
You can get the books we are discussing at the links below
Foundation - amzn.to/2DvoAC4
Foundation and Empire - amzn.to/2CYAyU2
Second Foundation - amzn.to/2FCKww4
Foundation's Edge - amzn.to/2FAH19s
Foundation and Earth - amzn.to/2DuujZ7
Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, and Steven Erickson
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Thank you for comprehensively and entertainingly encapsulating and popularizing my favorite series by my favorite author!
You're welcome!
Thanks for this! I’m looking to get into Asimov after being recommended his Foundation series; it’s invaluable to watch this before I throw cash at a trilogy.
They’re books you can easily get at your local library, I expect
You've got a great group of people in these videos. Always some great insights all around.
Well, until Covid hit, we did!
@@GregoryBSadler As a fellow Milwaukeean, I feel this.
wow I read "The Final Question" by Asimov last night! nice timing :D
+Nero Chaos Glad to read it
+Gregory B. Sadler :D and I mean "The Last Question"
Just finished your lecture on "Riverworld"...and Asimov's "Foundation" series is my favorite series of all time...I'm very pleased that I 'stumbled' upon your lecture series!! Much Appreciated!
Glad you're enjoying the talks. We've got a whole set of them scheduled this year!
Excellent!
At around 1:32:00 the Discussion of "Jobless Economies" reminded me of "Player Piano" an early Kurt Vonnegut novel.
Damm cornavirus i want to see that damm show
Thanks for yet another stimulating lecture,Dr. Sadler. Will there ever be a segment on one or more of the following: John Brunner, Stanislaws Lem, Larry Niven, Ray Bradbury or J.G. Ballard?
Isaac Asimov...one could devote an entire lecture to just his short stories alone. (*hint,hint*)
We'll see if we go for another year with the series there or not. If so, some of those authors will get into the mix, but there's many others I'd want to do as well
Theodore Sturgeon!! =)
*heavy metal fan screaming voice* ASIMOOOOV!!!!!!!
Dr. Sadler, another fine exploration of a great work of Science Fiction (apologies to Harlen Ellison) and Isaac Asimov. I am a huge fan of both. I could bury you in information about Asimov, but I won't. In the day since I commented on your Dune - Frank Herbert exploration I have discovered your deep knowledge of philosophy. My training is mostly in physics and astrophysics. Many scientists in this field feel that Philosophy is dead. For instance, what does philosophy have to say about quantum mechanics? I disagree with this.
Therefore I would like to share this panel discussion featuring Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, Dr. Daniel Dennett and Dr. Lawrence Krauss which covers this modern question. ua-cam.com/video/9tH3AnYyAI8/v-deo.html I am sure you are very busy but you might find this of interest. Best...
I'm not Dr. Sadler but thank you so much for this!
Hey Dr. Sadler , I've always been interested in philosophy and I want to get into now. I don't plan on going to school for this though I want to self educate. My question to you is where do I start? Do you recommend any of your videos and/or books? Or any useful advice to use towards my journey? Thanks.
+Gq customs I typically suggest starting with Plato
Thanks. Any book in particular? Or any book is fine?
ua-cam.com/video/Ngk0tLuls1w/v-deo.html
Thanks again
Imagine fifty mathematicians who can't agree on what "+" means and every one of them has a different opinion.That's what Asimov's thought experiment was...What if we take sociology, one of the most interpretative(subjective) sciences out there and make it as solid as math?
Philosophy has the same problem. For example, I have heard many times people in the field using "Utilitarianism" when they should be using "Consequentialism".
I love Asimov, Le Guin, Herbert and the others in the series but if we add literature on top of poorly defined concepts the resulting philosophy is doubly murky. However, makes for fun casual discussion. Thumbs up :)
Well, I suppose philosophy looks a good bit more coherent from the inside, and after spending a few decades in the profession. That's my perspective
I have many encounters with SF in my life, most of this was not pleasant, because I will argue that hard SF is not about make someone think, but to give him ready answer important question, in my opinion bad answer. I read first four books of Asimov's fundation and in my opinion first three had quite clear word view put before reader to belive in it. God not exists and religion is not only false but also evil, Galaxy Empaires and story about cosmic sellers are example of that social progres (I guess this is it the Americas 50's version) are inseparetly linked with science and democracy, monarchies are imanently wiced and no have any regred in concuering them. But, what is distrubing at lest, this progress to great future is also inseparable linked with ''might make right'' approch to politics, in polish they proverb is something like this ''What is right, can not turn you from doing what is nesserary.'' Like murder of every meamber of truly rulling class of this advaenced society, when you can identified them. When I end wrtting this, its look worst when I began.
It is worth nothing, that I read substancial amount of works of only two great philosophers: Platon and Saint Augustine. I must said no one teach me more about conteporary word, and SF too, that these two autors. Outside science I don' see any sign of ages on they works, but when you look Asimove you see old science/attutiude of society too (like nuclears reactors everywhere), so we should forgive that these two great thinkers.
At the end the picture became very gloomy, but two things hold me from despair. For most God's Providence will never left mankind alone. Second, nothing is became outdated faster than yesterday vision of tomorrow. I don't say that people who said that were ignorant, but when you tray forsee future is always very hard job and no one should be much suprised when his vision fade away.