Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

09/20/2025

Aristotle on the Moral Virtues is an online 8-week class I'm offering, starting with the first 90-minute class session a week from today! We'll look at the nature of virtue and vice, then do deep dives into each of the 12 virtues Aristotle examines!

learn about, develop, discuss, and apply the 12 virtues Aristotle analyzes in his Nicomachean Ethics (starts September 27)

09/20/2025

Pretty dead-on

09/20/2025

Cool memory for today. Looks like it was exactly two years ago that I finished the Half Hour Hegel project of commentary videos on the Phenomenology of Spirit with the final video on paragraph 808! Here's where you can find organized links to every video
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/the-half-hour-hegel-series

09/20/2025

A short piece on one central notion in Stoicism that many would-be-Stoics go wrong with, because they want to make it simpler than it turns out to be (especially when we look through classic Stoic literature) https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/from-living-in-harmony-to-working

09/20/2025

Coming up at Noon Central Time, I'm releasing a video I had to put a lot of thought into. This one focuses on my own work using YouTube videos to teach philosophy. We'll be doing a premiere with live chat, where I'll respond to questions and comments

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09/19/2025

In week 4 of the upcoming Aristotle and the Moral Virtues online class (starting September 27), we will be digging deep into his discussions of two virtues, generosity and magnificence, which have to do with how we understand, manage, and use our wealth

learn about, develop, discuss, and apply the 12 virtues Aristotle analyzes in his Nicomachean Ethics (starts September 27)

09/19/2025

We continue on with the core concept series on the letters between Heloise and Abelard with this video on letter 4, where Heloise sets out her conflicted situation, difficulties, and despair to Abelard after his letter to her

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09/19/2025

In book 2 of Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods, he has the Stoic character discuss how beneficial things or people ended up getting turned into gods in three main ways. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode discussing that portion of the work

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Nature Of The Gods, which critically examines Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic perspective

09/19/2025

Aristotle’s analysis of anger is quite complex and spread over a number of different works. Here’s a piece summarizing some of the key points from an invited talk I gave years back at Columbia about how anger can seduce our practical rationality https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/how-anger-seduces-practical-rationality

09/19/2025

Been spending the morning reading and drinking coffee. Still sick with a sore throat, but muscle pains, sinus stuff, and headache seem better. Time to quit puttering around and get caught up on the work and correspondence that has been accumulating!

09/19/2025

Just finished an open house shift at Almost Home. Met two new arrivals who both wanted their share of love, pets, and attention. Lots of visitors and conversations as well!

09/18/2025

Hop streetcar was inexplicably not running so had to walk over to Stone Creek to meet a friend for coffee. Still sick and pretty wiped out. Back home and gotta lie down a bit before heading out for an open house shift at Almost Home this evening. Somethings gotta give, so. . .