Voltaire Didnt Say these | Ten Fake Quotes Misattributed to Voltaire | Dont Be Taken In By These! @GregoryBSadler

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Fake quotes attributed to famous authors are all over the internet. And they're bad business for brains! Don't be a sucker for these by believing them uncritically, and don't repost quotes you're not sure are actually by the thinker they're attributed to, or you're making yourself part of the problem

In this video, I identify ten fake quotes that are not by the author. They are often attributed to Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), but which we see falsely and frequently attributed to him in quote pages, images, and videos. I not only discuss where the quote originates from (when we know), but also why each of them is something Voltaire wouldn't have said, based on what we know he did say in his existing texts.

Here are the fake quotes we're calling out in this video:
1. "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" or "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." (from white nationalist Kevin Alfred Strom)

2. “I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (from Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Also misattributed to Voltaire by Norbert Guterman)

3. "There is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night. (misattributed to Voltaire by Yuval Noah Harari)

4. "Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" (interpretative summary of Voltaire by Peter Gay)

5. "Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it" (from André Gide)

6. "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers" (from Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis)

7. "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense" (from Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach)

8. "With great power comes great responsibility" (from collection of the decrees made by the French National Convention)

9. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" (from Stanisław Jerzy Lec)

10. "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" (not from Voltaire, though attributed to him repeatedly by multiple sources

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Voltaire Didnt Say these | Ten Fake Quotes Misattributed to Voltaire | Dont Be Taken In By These!

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Fake quotes attributed to famous authors are all over the internet. And they're bad business for brains! Don't be a sucker for these by believing them uncritically, and don't repost quotes you're not sure are actually by the thinker they're attributed to, or you're making yourself part of the problem

In this video, I identify ten fake quotes that are not by the author. They are often attributed to Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), but which we see falsely and frequently attributed to him in quote pages, images, and videos. I not only discuss where the quote originates from (when we know), but also why each of them is something Voltaire wouldn't have said, based on what we know he did say in his existing texts.

Here are the fake quotes we're calling out in this video:
1. "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" or "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." (from white nationalist Kevin Alfred Strom)

2. “I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (from Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Also misattributed to Voltaire by Norbert Guterman)

3. "There is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night. (misattributed to Voltaire by Yuval Noah Harari)

4. "Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" (interpretative summary of Voltaire by Peter Gay)

5. "Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it" (from André Gide)

6. "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers" (from Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis)

7. "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense" (from Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach)

8. "With great power comes great responsibility" (from collection of the decrees made by the French National Convention)

9. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" (from Stanisław Jerzy Lec)

10. "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" (not from Voltaire, though attributed to him repeatedly by multiple sources

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Cicero, On The Nature Of The Gods | Epicurean Criticism of Stoic Views On The Divine | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of The Gods, specifically on the Epicurean Velleius' criticisms of the Stoic school's viewpoints on the divine, specifically mentioning Zeno (the founder of the school), Aristo, Cleanthes, Persæus, Chrysippus, and Diogenes of Babylon.

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Cicero, On The Nature Of The Gods | Epicurean Criticism of Philosophers On Divinity | Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-21 | request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of The Gods, specifically on the Epicurean Velleius' criticisms of various ancient philosophers viewpoints on the divine.

These include a number of pre-Socratics, such as: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Alcmæo of Croton, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Protagoras, Democritus, and Diogenes of Apollonia.

He also criticises the views of post-Socratics like Plato, Xenophon, Antisthenes, Speusippus, Aristotle, Xenocrates, Heraclides of Pontus, and Theophrastus

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G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | From Recognition To The Struggle To The Death

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-21 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from midway through the lecture, I briefly discuss how Hegel will take us, his readers, from the concept of recognition from other self-consciousnesses to the famous struggle to teh death, which then leads into the master-slave dialectic

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

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About Wyoming Stoic Camp 2024 | Practicing and Learning About Stoic Philosophy Up In The Mountains

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-20 | request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video reflecting upon my recent experiences at Wyoming Stoic Camp, held in May 2024 at the Table In The Wilderness Camp near Centennial Wyoming. It has been organized for 10 years by Rob Colter, and is supported by the University of Wyoming Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

I flew from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Denver, Colorado, then caught a ride from Denver to Laramie, Wyoming, stayed overnight, and then rode up to the camp location. We spent five days studying and discussing Stoic texts together, enjoying meals and company, taking hikes in the stark natural landscape, encountering deer and moose, and hearing talks from invited guest speakers (of which I was one).

The two texts we focused on the most were
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For my invited guest lecture, I discussed Stoicism and Grief, looking in particular at Seneca's Letters 63 and 99, and Cicero's Tusculan Disputations book 3.

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G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | Certainty of Self, Objects, and Our Interests

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-19 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from midway through the lecture, I discuss what Hegel means by "certainty of self" and why it matters to us. At this stage, we can understand it through our relation to objects that we are interested in, and that we ascribe importance to

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

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Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods | Skeptic Criticism of Epicurean Atomism | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of The Gods, specifically on the academic skeptic Cotta's criticisms of the Epicurean position on the gods as being incoherent, holding to a metaphysical atomism and at the same time holding that the gods are eternal.

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Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods | Skeptic Criticism of Argument From Common Consent | Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-17 | request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of The Gods, specifically on the criticisms made in book 1 by the academic skeptic Cotta against the Epicurean argument from common consent made earlier by Velleius.

If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: patreon.com/sadler

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Cicero, On the Nature Of The Gods | Epicureans On Nature Of The Divine | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-16 | request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of Gods, specifically on the presentation of the Epicurean position on the divine by Velleius, who develops this in part by examining the preconceptions (proleipseis) of the gods that the Epicureans claim human beings have, as immortal and eternal, as inactive and blessedly happy, and interestingly as possessing a form like that of human beings.

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You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on Cicero's On The Nature of the Gods here - amzn.to/3JITSZc

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Descartes Meditations, Objections, & Replies | 8-Week Online Synchronous Course | Study With Sadler

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-15 | Enroll in the 8-Week Rene Descartes' Meditations, Objections, & Replies class for $249.00 - reasonio.teachable.com/p/rene-descartes-meditations-objections-and-replies

I'm offering an 8-week intensive online class focused on a classic and immensely influential work of Western Philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, along with the Objections and Replies. The course meets weekly for 90-minute class sessions using Zoom on Thursdays at 1 PM Central Time / 2 PM Eastern Time, starting on Thursday, May 25 and continuing through Thursday, July 13.

Class sessions will be videorecorded and uploaded into the course site, so students can review the class sessions whenever and as often as they wish. We will also host discussion forums in the class site for each week to continue discussions of the key ideas.

Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is among his most important works. It leads the reader through a set of thought-exercises and arguments intended to rebuild philosophy upon a secure foundation and provide knowledge we can be certain about. The Meditations were widely read, and a number of important philosophers authored sets of critical objections to the work, to which Descartes responded with his own replies.

The plan for the class is:
Session 1 – Introduction to the Class, First Meditation: What can be called into doubt
Session 2 – Second Meditation : The nature of the human mind and how it is better known from the body
Session 3 – Third meditation: The existence of God
Session 4 – Fourth Meditation: Of the true and the false
Session 5 –Fifth Meditation: The existence of material things, & the existence of God considered again
Session 6 – Sixth Meditation : The existence of material things & real distinction between mind and body
Session 7 – Objections 1-4 from Caterus, selected authors compiled by Marin Mersenne, Thomas Hobbes, and Antoine Arnauld, and Descartes' Replies 1-4
Session 8 – Objections 5-7 from Pierre Gassendi, additional authors compiled by Marin Mersenne, and Pierre Bourdin and Descartes' Replies 5-7

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Cicero, On the Nature Of The Gods | Epicurean Preconceptions and the Argument From Common Consent

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-14 | request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of Gods, specifically on the argument that the Epicurean Velleius puts forward for the existence of the gods, often called the "argument from common consent". The Epicurean version of this argument also involves one of the key ideas that Epicurus himself introduced, which is called proleipsis in Greek, and typically translated as "preconceptions", which all human beings have and share in common.

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A Little Creek at Table In The Wilderness Camp in Wyoming | At Wyoming Stoic Camp 2024

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-14 | This Youtube short is a view of a little creek winding its way through the aspens and pines that caught my attention as I was ambling around the Table In The Wilderness Camp near Centennial, Wyoming. There are still pockets of snow on the ground in places, and the landscape is very striking. I could hear the waters of the creek murmuring and walked over to check it out.

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Cicero, On the Nature Of The Gods | Characters & Structure of Dialogue | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of Gods, specifically on the overall structure of the dialogue, and the characters involved, who are representatives of three important schools of ancient philosophy, Gaius Velleius the Epicurean, Quintus Lucilius Balbus the Stoic, and Gaius Cotta the Academic Skeptic.

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#Cicero #Philosophy #Gods #Divinity #Argument #Dialogue #Religion #Epicureanism #Stoicism #Skepticism

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Cicero, On the Nature Of The Gods | Ciceros Motivations and Views | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero's work On The Nature Of Gods, specifically on the very first parts of the work in book 1, where Cicero discusses his own motivations for writing this work, and the larger project he has in mind with his philosophical works more generally. Being sidelined in the new post-Republic political regime, and dealing with grief over the death of his daughter Tullia leads him to take on a significant project of writing about Greek philosophy in Latin, and using a dialogue form which is well-suited to presenting and criticizing positions in all sorts of areas of philosophy.

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#Cicero #Philosophy #Gods #Divinity #Argument #Dialogue #Religion #Epicureanism #Stoicism #Skepticism

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Anne McCaffreys Harper Hall Trilogy | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 81)

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-11 | Enroll in the FREE online class, Worlds of Speculative Fiction - reasonio.teachable.com/p/worlds-of-speculative-fiction

We have restarted the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in a new online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-120-minute-long video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion.

This session focuses on the science fiction, author Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy, part of her Dragonriders of Pern series. We discuss the worldbuilding and key philosophical themes developed within the books, as well as some of McCaffrey's remarks from interviews and essays about her own writing, planning, and history

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The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by YouTube Audio Library

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, Steven Erickson, James Kennedy, Jim Butcher, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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#ScienceFiction #Dragons #Pern #Music #Philosophy #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Literature #Menolly #Piemur

Peter Abelard, Medieval Scholasticism, and Heloise of Argenteuil | Philosophers in Midst of History

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In this twenty-fifth installment of our quarterly series, Philosophers in the Midst of History, I discuss the life, thought, and influence of the Medieval philosopher, theologian, and monk Peter Abelard. We look at his historical situation in 12th Century Brittany and France, during a time of intellectual renaissance, marked by important developments and changes within Western Christendom. We also discuss his relationship with a brilliant woman scholar, Heloise of Argenteuil, who he tutors, becomes lovers with, and marries, before he is castrated and both of them take religious vows.

Other talks in this series focused upon Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius, Anselm of Canterbury, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blondel, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Hannah Arendt. You can watch all the talks in this ongoing series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIj-iR53DSbEJf5z7behuTWt

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#Abelard #Heloise #history #philosophy #christianity #culture #conflict #France #Church #Monasticism

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G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | Self Consciousness, Negation, Certainty, and Desire

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-10 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from midway through the lecture, I discuss what self-certainty looks like concretely for self-consciousness for Hegel at this stage of the dialectic. I also connect it to two other key themes, negation and desire.

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

#shorts #Hegel #Phenomenology #Spirit #Dialectic #Philosophy #Idealism #Consciousness #Reason #Master

Nishitani Keiji, Self Overcoming Of Nihilism | Humanism, Existentialism, & Buddhism | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on the Appendix to the work, titled "The Problem of Atheism". He analyses two main philosophical atheistic approaches to religion, that of Marxist humanism and that of Sartrean existentialism, and points out inadequacies to both of these positions, particularly when examined in relation to Mahayana Buddhism. Nishitani also suggests that a reappropriated and reinterpreted Buddhism can offer a position that engages with nihilism but also goes beyond it in manners that also go beyond Western self-overcomings of nihilism

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Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | Nihilism and Reappropriating Tradition | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on chapter 9, "The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan". Nishitani claims that nihilism has become a significant cultural problem in post-World War II Japan, and that merely returning to a previously robust tradition undergirded by (Mahayana) Buddhism and Confucianism will not be by itself sufficient. Instead, that tradition has to be reappropriated and reinterpreted from the point of view of the present and the future in order for it to possess any genuine potentiality

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My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

#Philosophy #Existentialism #Nihilism #Japan #Nishitani #History #Self #Meaning #Value #kyoto

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Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | Nihilism, Japan, and Westernization | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on chapter 9, "The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan". This one examines his discussion of how Japan opened itself up to a crisis of nihilism precisely through modernization and westernization, and what the possibilities for post-World War II are.

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My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

#Philosophy #Existentialism #Nihilism #Japan #Nishitani #History #Self #Meaning #Value #kyoto

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G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | Making Sense Out Of “Life”

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-07 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from midway through the lecture, I discuss two different senses that we can give to the term "life", one of which is general or abstract, the other of which is more precise, but also messier when we consider what it refers to

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

#shorts #Hegel #Phenomenology #Spirit #Dialectic #Philosophy #Idealism #Consciousness #Reason #Master

Wisdom for Life Radio Show Episode 81 | Whats In A Name? Meanings Of Philosophical Schools

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In this eighty-first episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler discuss a number of terms that originally came from philosophy which have taken on different, sometimes even opposed meanings in popular culture.

In this show, Dan and Greg look particularly at Epicureanism, Cynicism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Existentialism, Utilitarianism, Pragmatism and the terms associated with them. They discuss what the original meaning and movement associated with these terms was, and still in in philosophical circles. They also discuss the range of popular meanings assigned to these terms, and in some cases how the terms came to take on these divergent meanings

Here's the show episode in podcast format - soundcloud.com/user-240416425/wisdom-for-life-episode-80-whats-in-a-name-meanings-of-philosophical-schools

Intro and outro music is from an original track created just for Wisdom for Life by musician and guitar professor (Berkelee School of Music), Scott Tarulli. Here's his page - check him out! scotttarulli.com

As an APPA-certified philosophical counselor, I help clients work through life issues using resources from philosophy. Learn more here - reasonio.wordpress.com/philosophical-counseling

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This is a show in which Dan Hayes and I explore ideas from philosophy and connected fields and apply them to issues and challenges from everyday life. We range quite broadly, sometimes exploring resources from philosophical traditions like Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Existentialism, among others. We focus on both understanding theory and key ideas, and on experimenting with philosophies in practice, or philosophy as a way of life. We discuss social, political, ethical, relationship, dating, and workplace issues. We also occasionally answer listener questions, or focus a show on untangling moral dilemmas found in AITA posts. We have also done interviews with guests ranging from academic philosophers to NFL football players. And we sometimes stray over into literature and popular culture, for example, in looking at Philip K. Dick's works.

#Radio #Philosophy #Life #Advice #Practice #Epicureanism #Cynicism #Stoicism #Utilitarianism #Existentialism

Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | European Nihilism | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on on his discussion in chapter 1 "Nihilism As Existence", of what he terms "European nihilism". Although nihilism remains in part a trans-cultural and trans-historical phenomenon, it arises in a complex and active way within the ongoing development of modern European culture. A nihilims that overcomes nihilism also arises out of that as well. None of this means that nihilism can be put off as a merely European problem, however, particularly for Japanese culture.

If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: patreon.com/sadler

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If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on Nishitani Keiji's thought and works - click here: reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials

You can find the text I am using for this sequence on Nishitani Keiji's The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism here - amzn.to/3wgyCqz

My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

#Philosophy #Existentialism #Nihilism #Japan #Nishitani #History #Self #Meaning #Value #kyoto

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Dr Sadlers AMA (Ask Me Anything) Session - May 2024 - Underwritten By Patreon Supporters

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Underwritten by the support of my Patreon backers, I offer an Ask Me Anything session for supporters, viewers, listeners, readers, and other fans each month.

We do AMA sessions each month, and you can find them on the ReasonIO events calendar and on my Facebook author page. You'll want to get your questions in early since a lot of viewers typically have questions to ask. You don't need to ask the same question multiple times.

Most of the questions I answer have to deal with Philosophy, Political Theory, History, Literature, or Religious Studies, but some stray into other areas like Music or popular culture.

Keep the discussion civil - being a jerk to participants or to me might get you booted from the channel.

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Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | Nihilism and Philosophy of History | Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-03 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on his discussion in chapter 1 "Nihilism As Existence", focused on how human beings are situated in history, and how nihilism arises not just as a trans-historical possibility, but within a particular historical context, that of modern Europe. This requires that not only does nihilism need to be understood from within a philosophy of history, but that it must also enter into and inform that philosophy of history itself, transforming it in the process.

If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: patreon.com/sadler

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If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on Nishitani Keiji's thought and works - click here: reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials

You can find the text I am using for this sequence on Nishitani Keiji's The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism here - amzn.to/3wgyCqz

My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

#Philosophy #Existentialism #Nihilism #Japan #Nishitani #History #Self #Meaning #Value #kyoto

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Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism | Nihilism and the Problem Of The Self | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Nishitani Keiji's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, and specifically on his discussion in chapter 1 "Nihilism As Existence", which distinguishes several unproductive and inadequate approaches to nihilism, and then frames nihilism as a problem of the self. He notes that the self can be broken into two selves, one which observes and questions, the other which is observed and questioned, but that this bifurcation remains a problem, which then calls to be resolved through actual existence and passionate thinking.

If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: patreon.com/sadler

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If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on Nishitani Keiji's thought and works - click here: reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials

You can find the text I am using for this sequence on Nishitani Keiji's The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism here - amzn.to/3wgyCqz

My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

#Philosophy #Existentialism #Nihilism #Japan #Nishitani #History #Self #Meaning #Value #kyoto

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Dr. Sadlers Channel Updates | May 2024 | Whats Coming Up & What You Might Have Missed

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-05-01 | My Patreon site - patreon.com/sadler
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In this update, I talk about some of the projects, talks, and activities I've got planned for May 2024, and what took place in April 2023.

May 4 - AMA Session - youtube.com/live/K0JWUBAA2B0
May 8 - Philosophers in the Midst of History: Peter Abelard, Medieval Scholasticism, and Heloise of Argenteuil (local event)
May 11 - Worlds of Speculative Fiction: Anne McCaffery's Harper Hall Trilogy - link coming soon
May 18 - Classic Metal Class Session 27: Bands That Say They're Not Heavy Metal - reasonio.teachable.com/p/classic-metal-class
May 25 - Understanding Anger 2.0 Class Session 12: Seneca's On Anger - youtube.com/live/JawRTal1iXs
May 26 April 21 - Self-Directed Study: Thomas Aquinas - link coming soon

Sadler's Quick Takes Number 13 | Worries Because A Philosopher Has Been Criticized or “Critiqued” - youtu.be/FhkEv_VnX4Y
Voltaire Didn't Say these | Ten Fake Quotes Misattributed to Voltaire - youtu.be/295Gi9IThs0
Don't Be That Guy! | An Online Discussion About Avoiding Obnoxious Behavior - youtu.be/FHSyHrKb2h8
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint Germain Cycle | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 80) - youtu.be/j0ASye0vKGQ
Wisdom For Life Radio Show Episode 80 | Concerns Over Artificial Intelligences Becoming Persons - youtu.be/nQeEFqKfdWI
Ideas That Matter | A Conversation With Davood Gozli About Reading, Dialogue, and Intellectual Life - youtu.be/LTa03ryY5DM
Ideas That Matter | A Conversation With Daniel Hieber About Memes, Philosophy, and Teaching Ideas - youtu.be/mDRxC2NSqS0
Dr Sadler's AMA (Ask Me Anything) Session - April 2023 - youtube.com/live/fp-37MzmBo8
Sadler Telling Stories 61 | The Weirdest Date I Ever Went On (Seeing Cook, Thief, Wife & Her Lover) - youtu.be/sNpyXEGvynY
Sadler Telling Stories 62-65: The Narratives About Libraries youtu.be/WlA69xnMi4I youtu.be/Mf39_g6WOVs youtu.be/HdfbDlrPLME and youtu.be/cj5Dci1iNDA
Poul Anderson, On Thud and Blunder (Doing Fantasy Worldbuilding Right) | Speculative Fiction Studies - youtu.be/mMT3wJcj9c0
Understanding Anger 2.0 Session | Cicero's Examinations Of The Emotion Of Anger - youtube.com/live/d5rHIPqM9Gw

Speculative Fiction Studies playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIh7RZ3Mag2EF2c_QsGxlVBD
Wisdom For Life Show - riverwestradio.com/show/wisdom-for-life
The Philosophy Core Concepts playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjwnfPgqLkLJ7cHXAqDHfBA
Sadler's Lectures Podcast - soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler
Study With Dr. Sadler Teachable Academy: http://reasonio.teachable.com
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Sadlers Quick Takes Number 13 | Worries Because A Philosopher Has Been Criticized or “Critiqued”

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This is the thirteenth in a new series of shorter videos in which I give a "quick take" on some matter that I consider important to address, for at least some of my viewers, readers, listeners, followers, or students.

This Quick Take addresses a worry or concern that comes up quite often among students, lifelong learners, and other people interested in philosophy, namely what we ought to make of the fact that a philosopher whose ideas or works have been criticized or "critiqued" by some other philosopher. Some people mistakenly draw the inference that if a philosopher's thought or work is criticized by someone else, that this automatically means that there is something wrong with that philosopher.

I look at the fears or anxieties that this may be reflective of, for example that one will be wasting one's time studying the philosopher who gets criticized. I also call into question assumptions that people make, not least of which is that the criticism or "critique" is actually well-informed, accurate, relevant, or fair. I also examine a number of different forms or modes that "critique" or criticism can take.

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Sadler Telling Stories 65 | Libraries In My Life After Moves to Kingston, NY and Milwaukee, WI

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-29 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is the sixty-fifth in a series of videos in which I engage in some storytelling about my own personal experiences, relationships, realizations, and life. Sometimes these might connect with my profession as a philosopher, but often that won't be the case.

In this video, I continue the story of my involvement with libraries, narrating my use and enjoyment of libraries and the resources they offer and curate. This video picks up with my life after I resigned my position at Fayetteville State University and moved to the Hudson Valley to be with my then-fiancee, now wife, Andi. This covers the years from 2011 to the present.

Libraries that I used for my ongoing research in those years include:
Marist College James A. Cannavino Library
Saint Anselm College Geisel Library
Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library
Milwaukee County Library Central Branch

Libraries at which I have given invited talks, workshops, or talk series, include:
Kingston Public Library
Brookfield Public Library
Frank Weyenberg Public Library
Wauwatosa Public Library
Whitefish Bay Public Library
Shorewood Public Library

The talk series that I have provided at these libraries include:
Glimpses into Existence: Eleven Key Existentialist Writers - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIg9WbkZWMJV9j_q95Ky-MsV
Understanding Anger - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgDHsCEZq4gk2R8TGTMJajH
Worlds Of Speculative Fiction: Philosophical Themes - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIiuo3yYSBeOsrT-iSHvDRUb
Philosophers in the Midst of History | A Quarterly Series About Intellectual History - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIj-iR53DSbEJf5z7behuTWt

#Storytelling #Narrative #Memories #Library #Books #Education

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | Ephemeral Creation | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-28 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on the section "Ephemeral Creation" in the third part of work. Camus discusses the possibility of an "ascesis" of he absurd that would remain true to it despite our tendency to succumb to hope. He discusses how this would work for the creative novelist, and the tole that revolt, freedom, and diversity play

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Understanding Anger 2.0 Session | Ciceros Examinations Of The Emotion Of Anger

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This is the eleventh session of the new monthly Understanding Anger class I am offering to interested participants. In this session we will be looking at the perspectives that Marcus Tullius Cicero articulates on the emotion of anger, looking at it in terms of ethics, psychology, and rhetoric. I will be presenting on the topics and addressing questions and comments from the participants periodically.

The format of the class has changed from using Zoom videoconferencing to using YouTube Live.

About the original Understanding Anger series - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-understanding-anger-talk-series-979053c3880e
More about Understanding Anger 2.0 - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/understanding-anger-2-0-427bd898a6de

#Class #Anger #Philosophy #Literature #Resources #Emotion #Conflict #Argument #Aristotle #Rhetoric #Psychology

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | Dostoevsky, Absurd & Existentialism | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-26 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on his discussion of Dostoevsky, his novels, and his characters' perspectives in the third part of the work, "Absurd Creation". While several of the characters that Dostoevsky discusses are people whose thought, life, and engagements emerge from and grapple with the absurd, according to Camus Dostoevsky himself makes a leap out past the absurd, and ends up as an "existentialist" (as Camus understands that term).

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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | The Absurd, Art and Philosophy | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-25 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on his discussion in the third part of the work, Absurd Creation, examining how art and specifically fiction or the novel end up intersecting with philosophy in their engagements with the absurd.

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Ideas That Matter | A Conversation With Daniel Hieber About Memes, Philosophy, and Teaching Ideas

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-24 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new series of 1-on-1 interviews, conducted with people who - in my view - are doing interesting work with ideas that matter, often (though not exclusively) from the field of philosophy.

In this one, I have a Zoom conversation with Daniel Hieber, who is an instructor in philosophy in the department of Humanities and Fine Arts at Ozarks Technical Community College. He is also the owner of the Facebook page Pedagogical Memes on Philosophical Themes. Our main focus is on discussing whether and how philosophy can be productively taught and discussed by producing and sharing memes.

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#Interview #Conversation #Philosophy #Memes #Dialogue #Teaching #Academia #PopularCulture #Visual #Argument

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | A Sketch: Conquest and the Conquerer | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-23 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on the third of the sketches or examples Camus provides in part 2 of the work, illustrating ways in which a person might live out an "ethics of quantity" in the face of the absurd. Camus discusses conquest and the person he calls "the conquerer", but this person in late modern times will be quite different from conquerors in earlier times.

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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | A Sketch: Drama and The Actor | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-22 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on the second sketch or example he discusses in the second part of the work, "The Absurd Man". Taking the stage actor as a paradigm, Camus examines how living out a life that imitates many other lives on the stage, portraying passions through the body, can be one kind of an "ethics of quantity"

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Sadler Telling Stories 64 | Libraries In My Life During My Early Years As A University Professor

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-21 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is the sixty-fourth in a series of videos in which I engage in some storytelling about my own personal experiences, relationships, realizations, and life. Sometimes these might connect with my profession as a philosopher, but often that won't be the case.

In this video, I continue the story of my involvement with libraries, narrating my use and enjoyment of libraries and the resources they offer and curate. This video picks up with my engagement with libraries during my years as an assistant professor at Ball State University in Indiana (teaching in the extended education program at Indiana State Prison) and Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. I made extensive use of several college and university libraries in that time, not only to prepare the wide range of classes that I taught but also for my own research and publication. I also began giving public lectures at local libraries as a form of service to the public while at Fayetteville State University. This covers the years from 2002 to 2011

The libraries that I used and benefitted from the most were:
Ball State University Bracken Library
University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Library
Fayetteville State University Charles Chesnutt Library
St. Anselm College Geisel Library (home of the St. Anselm collection)
Cumberland County Headquarters Library in Fayetteville, NC

#Storytelling #Narrative #Memories #Library #Books #Education #University #College #Research #Publication

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | A Sketch: Don Juanism (Ethics) | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-20 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on one of the sketches or examples that he provides in the second part of his work, illustrating one particular "ethics of quantity" that remains consistently engaged with the absurd. This one centers around the fictional figure of Don Juan, reinterpreted by Camus. He engages in a seemingly endless series of seductions of women throughout his life, and lives out his existence within the limits of that motif

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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | Ethics Faced With The Absurd | Philosophy Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-19 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on his discussion of Kafka's work, found in an appendix to the text. He considers Kafka to on the one hand be a writer whose stories and novels do articulate the absurd, but on the other hand, to be an existentialist who ends up deifying the absurd and indulging in hope.

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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | Negrophobia, Nature, & Sexuality | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Franz Fanon's work, Black Skin, White Masks, and specifically on his discussions bearing on what he calls "Negrophobia", which involves the reduction of black people to nature, to animals, and to their sexuality, on the part of the racist feeling fear, anxiety, or disgust towards them.

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#Fanon #Racism #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Ethics #Colonialism #Black #White #Criticism #Politics

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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | Parallels Between Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Franz Fanon's work, Black Skin, White Masks, and specifically on his comparative discussions of antisemitism directed at the figure of the Jew and anti-Black racism or negrophobia directed at the figure of the Black person. There are similarities and connections between the two dynamics but also some important differences that Fanon highlights

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A Long Train Heading West Viewed From The Sixth Street Viaduct In Milwaukee | Sights From The City

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-16 | This Youtube short is a view of a long train heading west towards and under the highway in Milwaukee. The perspective is from the 6th Street Viaduct, which overlooks the train tracks just west of the Intermodal Station in Milwaukee. The train was a long one, and the original video footage of it was over 4 minutes long, but this is just a portion of it.

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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | Woman And Man, White And Color | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Franz Fanon's work, Black Skin, White Masks, and specifically on the discussions in the second and third chapters of the work, titled "The Woman of Color and the White Man," and "The Man of Color and the White Woman." Fanon examines what would need to be the case in order to have the possibility of "true, authentic love—wishing for others what one postulates for oneself, when that postulation unites the permanent values of human reality." His answer is that "mobilization of psychic drives basically freed of unconscious conflicts" would be needed. Since he "believe[s] in the possibility of love, he "endeavor[s] to trace its imperfections, its perversions in these two chapters.

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#Fanon #Racism #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Ethics #Colonialism #Black #White #Criticism #Politics

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Wisdom For Life Radio Show Episode 80 | Concerns Over Artificial Intelligences Becoming Persons

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-15 | Check out all the shows - medium.com/p/fe78c29cf7d9
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In this eightieth episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler continue their discussion of current issue raising a number of ethical questions that stem from our development and uses of artificial intelligence.

In this show, Dan and Greg look at one direction applications of AI are headed, towards creating artificial persons or person-like entities which human beings would then have relationships of various sorts with. These include companion bots, psychotheraphy bods, pedagogical bots, customer service bots, and “memorial” bots intended to reproduce a dead person.

Here's the show episode in podcast format - soundcloud.com/user-240416425/wisdom-for-life-episode-80-concerns-and-controversies-over-ais-becoming-persons

Intro and outro music is from an original track created just for Wisdom for Life by musician and guitar professor (Berkelee School of Music), Scott Tarulli. Here's his page - check him out! scotttarulli.com

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This is a show in which Dan Hayes and I explore ideas from philosophy and connected fields and apply them to issues and challenges from everyday life. We range quite broadly, sometimes exploring resources from philosophical traditions like Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Existentialism, among others. We focus on both understanding theory and key ideas, and on experimenting with philosophies in practice, or philosophy as a way of life. We discuss social, political, ethical, relationship, dating, and workplace issues. We also occasionally answer listener questions, or focus a show on untangling moral dilemmas found in AITA posts. We have also done interviews with guests ranging from academic philosophers to NFL football players. And we sometimes stray over into literature and popular culture, for example, in looking at Philip K. Dick's works.

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G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | Treating People As Subjects Or Objects

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-14 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from early on in the lecture, I discuss how human beings can treat other human beings as subjects like themselves, or attempt to reduce them to mere objects.

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

#shorts #Hegel #Phenomenology #Spirit #Dialectic #Philosophy #Idealism #Consciousness #Reason #Master

Chelsea Quinn Yarbros Saint Germain Cycle | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 80)

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-13 | Enroll in the FREE online class, Worlds of Speculative Fiction - reasonio.teachable.com/p/worlds-of-speculative-fiction

We have restarted the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in a new online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-120-minute-long video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion.

This session focuses on the horror, science fiction, western, and fantasy author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series, historic fiction, romance, and horror novels centered around the.long-lived and frequently travelled vampire of tha tand other names.

We focus on the first three books in the series, and discuss the worldbuilding and key philosophical themes within the books, as well as Yarbro's biography and some of her remarks from interviews about her own writing, planning, and history

The works that we draw upon and focus on in this session are:
Hotel Transylvania - amzn.to/3PVUb6I
The Palace - amzn.to/3VShPVr
Blood Games - amzn.to/4arSciy

The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by YouTube Audio Library

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, Steven Erickson, James Kennedy, and Jim Butcher

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#Horror #Vampire #History #Romance #Philosophy #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Literature #Supernatural #Series

Sadler Telling Stories 63 | Recalling Libraries In My Life During College and University Study

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This is the sixty-third in a series of videos in which I engage in some storytelling about my own personal experiences, relationships, realizations, and life. Sometimes these might connect with my profession as a philosopher, but often that won't be the case.

In this video, I continue the story of my involvement with libraries, narrating my use and enjoyment of libraries and the resources they offer and curate. This video picks up with my college years at Lakeland College (1990-1994), the year of work and living in Milwaukee (1994-1995), and my masters and doctoral studies at Southern Illinois University (1995-2002).

The three libraries that were the most important for me during that era were Lakeland College's John Esch Library, Milwaukee Library's Central Branch, and Southern Illinois University's Morris Library. I spent a lot of time in each of those, making use of the space, their collections, and the periodicals. In the case of the SIUC Morris Library, this was my introduction to a genuine research institution.

#Storytelling #Narrative #Memories #Library #Milwaukee #Books #Wisconsin #Education #Illinois #School

G.W.F. Hegel | Master Slave Dialectic | Adapting Ourselves To A World Of Objects

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-11 | This is a short selection from one of my Introduction to Philosophy classes taught at Marist College, a session which was focused on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically on the "Master-Slave Dialectic". This is a bit of an introductory-level lecture, intended to help students who have no background in philosophy better understand this rather difficult text.

You can find the full lecture this short is taken from here - youtu.be/6Fi7g5Ncy5U

In this short bit which is from early on in the lecture, I discuss the relationship between the human subject and the world of objects they inhabit. These objects are resistant to the desires and plans human beings have, and in their engagement with these objects they learn about those objects, the world, and themselves, and adapt themselves in the process

You can find the full playlist for the Intro to Philosophy course videos here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24E8CD3214E5C748

You can find all of the 370+ videos in the Half Hour Hegel commentary series linked to, and organized by sections here - medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/the-half-hour-hegel-series-7af8b459c8a5

You can also find my playlist of other videos on Hegel here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjEEG_o_XRqamupE-M5Fka-

#shorts #Hegel #Phenomenology #Spirit #Dialectic #Philosophy #Idealism #Consciousness #Reason #Master

Poul Anderson, On Thud and Blunder (Doing Fantasy Worldbuilding Right) | Speculative Fiction Studies

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-10 | Read Of Thud And Blunder - sfwa.org/2005/01/04/on-thud-and-blunder
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This is a video in my Speculative Fiction Studies series, which examines and analyses key aspects of classic and contemporary works in the genres that fall under the broad rubric of speculative fiction. This includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, weird, cyberpunk, utopian, post-apocalyptic, and superhero fiction, among other genres

This video focuses on Poul Anderson's 1978 essay "Of Thud And Blunder", which begins by parodying a passage of swords and sorcery fantasy. While making exceptions for L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and J.R.R. Tolkein, Anderson criticizes many of the heroic, historical, or swords & sorcery fantasy fiction for engaging in bad storytelling. He charges them with oversimplifying, not engaging in needed research, and not devoting thought or common sense to their story writing.

He discusses a number of different matters that a fantasy author should attend to, including: social classes and the lives of producers, the nature of pre-modern cities, diseases and sanitation, politics and religion, travel by land and water, and arms, armor, combat, and poisons.

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You can find Of Thud And Blunder - sfwa.org/2005/01/04/on-thud-and-blunder

My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation

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#Fantasy #SwordsAndSorcery #History #Research #Worldbuilding #Versimilitude #Warfare #Society #CommonSense #Literature

Sadler Telling Stories 62 | Recalling Libraries Important In My Life From Childhood To 20 Years Old

Gregory B. Sadler 2024-04-09 | Request personal videos on Cameo - cameo.com/gregorybsadler
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This is the sixty-second in a series of videos in which I engage in some storytelling about my own personal experiences, relationships, realizations, and life. Sometimes these might connect with my profession as a philosopher, but often that won't be the case.

In this video, I tell the story of libraries that were important places and resources in my early life, from early childhood through to my 20th year. These included local ones, such as the Delafield, Waukesha, and Central Milwaukee libraries, and school libraries, particularly those at Wales Elementary and University Lake School. Going to and spending time at the library was something we did regularly as a family, and also something I did later entirely on my own.

I probably checked out thousands of books from school or public libraries in those fifteen years. They included works in genres like fantasy, horror, adventure, and science fiction, as well as works on history, fishing, fireworks, philosophy, religions, painting, and other topics.

Here are videos telling further parts of the story connected to this one:
Sadler's Stories 12 | Vacuuming The Library During My First Year At University Lake School - youtu.be/MNDcBZ38Rzw
Sadler's Stories 14 | My Great-Uncle Hubert Lemrise | One Of The Best-Read People I Have Ever Known - youtu.be/c77eWRric2Y
Sadler Telling Stories 58 | My Fascination With And Enjoyment Of Fireworks From Childhood Onward - youtu.be/gbSGaH9o-7E

#Storytelling #Narrative #Memories #Library #Milwaukee #Books #Wisconsin #Education #School #Literature