"Frankly, I don't even know if Hegel got Hegel." The first time that Hegel ever made me laugh. Thanks

@Flux799

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Arthur it’s true though. Hegel’s work is almost equivalent to deciphering ancient Sumerian text.

@sirjanska9575

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flux799 Hey, ancient Sumerian is still mostly just understanding the language and its contexts. Hegel on the other hand is buried in conceptually disjointed language that's impossible to deduct in a rigid manner.

@DATo_DATonian

2 жыл бұрын

“But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most bare-faced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity.” - Edward Caird (1835 - 1908)

@trychanting

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Phenomenology of the Spirit is setting records for how many commas can be in one sentence. The commas, oh the commas!

I really like the fact that your videos are not rushed like most topical videos on youtube.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Demian Haki Yes, if anything, they're at the other extreme -- as some commenters tell me

@demianhaki7598

9 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Well, the short, quick videos certainly have their merit, but it's nice to settle into a lecture once in a while.

@silmarpinheiro3455

5 жыл бұрын

I like it too. Then I put the speed in 2x.

Without this philosophical magnum opus, he'll never make it on that island -- The Boy Scout Manual.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Never made it past being a cub scout myself

@davidsoto4394

3 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Can anybody call themselves a philosopher even without formal credentials? Excellent video thank you sir.

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidsoto4394 Anybody can call themselves anything really. It's whether others will buy in to it or not that matters

@davidsoto4394

3 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Excellent video.

@SuecoMexicano

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidsoto4394 i joined you in this conversation

1) Plato's Republic. 2) Aristotle's Politics. 3) Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. 4) Rawl's A theory of Justice. 5) Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. 6) Macintyre's After Virtue. 7) Descartes Meditations 8) Aquinas' Summa theologica 9) Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembeling 10) Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

@thephilosophersrant1552

5 жыл бұрын

I too am a fan of After Virtue. I teach portions of it in my philosophy classes. I truly see Incommensurability as the ethical problem of our time.

@timhorton2486

4 жыл бұрын

The Philosopher's Rant Can you explain incommensurability to me?

@TootDip1337

4 жыл бұрын

Hegels work is unreadable hahaah

I always keep coming back to this video. Thank you very much, I really appreciate the content of the channel.

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

I consider that book list and your calm, reflective way of presenting them, true wealth. They bring me peace.

Whew. Just about fits my list. Aquinas and Plato makes one think deeply about what appears simple.

Great list and discussion. Thanks!

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+William S. You're welcome!

This would be my top 10 list of books on a desert Island: Epictetus - Discourses Marcus Aurelius - Meditations Seneca - Hardship and Happiness Seneca - Letters from a Stoic Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics Plato - Symposium Plato - Republic Kant - Critique of Pure Reason St. Augustine - The City of God The Bible

@PViolety

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

@vitormelomedeiros

10 ай бұрын

Oh, now that I think about it, my list should be mostly Stoicism. In the harshness of a deserted island, I think some Marcus Aurelius would really come in handy 😂

I really like these more personal videos as well, thank you!

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Hi Professor Sadler, I have to say that your list of philosophical works are impressive. I, myself, am very fond of Augustine's "City of God" and in many ways I think it is way ahead of its time. It's not perfect, but some of the things he touches on, even when he is speaking as though he does not know what to think about a matter, I find that his reasoning process is usually so spot on, so much so in fact that he often mentions the answer already (perhaps without even knowing) in the form of a question. As time has past, I have become more and more convinced that St. Augustine truly deserves the amount of praise and recognized influence he has earned. There are many modern-day philosophers who are not nearly as skilled thinkers, but merely have the benefit of living in a time and place where more information is open to them.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+TruthUnadulterated Yes, imagine what any of these guys would have been like had they access to today's information!

thank you very much for putting this together!

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

a video I shot recently in response to a number of similar questions I've been getting for some time, this one prompted by thinking about the particular question asked me by an old college classmate and friend

@ZiggyZugzwang

10 жыл бұрын

Dude. How can u go to an island without Dostoevski ? ;)

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Remember in the video, where I say: If it were not just Philosophy, the list would be different?

@ZiggyZugzwang

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Ah I see. So that would be an intresting topic as well :). Or have you already done something like that? Ps:Great channel and work. Thank you very much!

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks -- no, this is the first list of this sort I've shot as a video

Top tier list. Almost as expected until you pulled out the last two, definitely have to check those out.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

They're definitely worth it

Great list! Not really a fan of Descartes (I’m Pascalian that way) but I would definitely throw Thoreau’s Walden and Thus Spoke Zarathustra up there.

This is one of my favourite videos. I liked to go back to it when I’m about to read one of the texts from this top ten list and in this case Aristotle metaphysics the WD Ross translation.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

That's nice to read. Can't go wrong with Aristotle!

Interesting video concept. I'll love to explore Scheler and Blondel first time I've heard of these works. Thanks Mr Sadler!

@GregoryBSadler

7 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome

A lot of what you have would be on my list, specifically Plato's Republic, Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Decartes' Meditations, and Aristotle's Metaphysics. My other five would be Augustine's Confessions, Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, Locke's Two Treatises of Government, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. These are not in any particular order of course.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I'd thought of Kierkegaard, Locke and Hume -- but it's tough to decide just what work of Kierkegaard, if I could just choose one, I would want (same problem with Nietzsche). Hume's Treatise was a tempting one as well.

Nice list! Really enjoyed this.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Glad to read it

1. Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching 2. Plato's Symposium 3. Dante's Comedy 4. Shakespeare's sonnets 5. Montaigne's Essays 6. Hume's Enquiry 7. Thoreau's Walden 8. James's Varieties of Religious Experience 9. Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow 10. McCarthy's Blood Meridian

@americalost5100

4 жыл бұрын

Gravity's Rainbow is a great choice. Like most of Pynchon's books they can be read over and over again and just keep getting better and better

@gamerhegel7780

2 жыл бұрын

Great list

@RaraAvis42

Жыл бұрын

@@PFMAGGAMFP I chose books I've found to be actually readable. Kant would be handy for a fire, though.

@RaraAvis42

Жыл бұрын

@@PFMAGGAMFP Heidegger. How about you? Are you a fan of the metaphysicians in general and/or have a favorite or two?

@RaraAvis42

Жыл бұрын

@@PFMAGGAMFP McCarthy is a very skilled writer and Blood Meridian stands at the "end" of philosophy (not to be mistaken with nihilism). I've found that the best way to learn philosophy is to write it oneself, otherwise you're just trying to memorize what someone else said. We are in charge of our own lives, after all. I'm not in Plato's camp per se, but I've always admired the power in the realization that one cannot learn what one doesn't already know. Teachers have charisma which lends itself well to entertainment, but wisdom isn't something that can be passed along. And good writers are very good magicians. We're all making all of this up as we go anyway. I do tend to relax a lot by reminding myself to try and enjoy the ride.

Mine would probably be. 1. Eroticism - Bataille 2. Being and Nothingness - Sartre 3.Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche 4. Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky 5. Philosophy of the Boudoir - Sade 6. Phenomenology Of Spirit - Hegel

@vitormelomedeiros

10 ай бұрын

that's a killer list, love it

My list (with some cheating) Plato: Complete Works Aristotle: Complete Works Agostino: Confessions Descartes: Collected Works Ethics (Spinoza) A Treatise of Human Nature Critique of Pure Reason Being & Time Theory of Justice The Concept of Law (Hart)

@danandbarbhendricks2429

2 жыл бұрын

Lonergan Insight and Method in Theology

Thanks for the information.

Dr. Sadler, a word of gratitude in making this video and your online work. Supremely rewarding and meaningful. My list, since it was asked in the description, 1. Aristotle, Metaphysics. 2. Augustine, Confessions. 3. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason 4. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit 5. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra As is the case for yourself, the last five are perhaps more telling of my individual interests. 6. Pascal, Pensees 7. Heidegger, On the Way to Language 8. Leibniz, Monadology 9. Heraclitus, Collected Scripts 10. Descartes, Meditations

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Some overlap in our lists. So, these are the ones that you'd want to read over and over?

@MitchellNewton1618

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, I do think I could find in these much to consider for the rest of my days. Further, I think I could have in these material enough to form some of my own stances and maintain in my work the type of dialogue amongst the thinkers. But, ultimately, I do hope such a scenario never occurs as I would miss so many other works, including the literary as opposed to just the philosophical.

Oh my god! u rock man, whitout a doubt I had already saw like 5 videos of you, u r amazing.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+Jenifer Calderón Hahaha! I'm glad you like the videos.

The Republic had been my first pick as well :)

Fun concept for a video and got me thinking. I hope I don't get stuck on an island in my teens, as I don't have the requisite understanding to take on some of your texts. My list: 1) Principia Mathematica, Whitehead 2) Decline of the West, Spengler 3) Logical Investigations, Husserl (friend insists) 4) Aristotle's Politics 5) The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer (haven't read yet, but enjoy his essays) 6) An Inquiry, Reid 7) Copleston's History of Philosophy (could be a mistake, leaving me wanting) 8) Summa 9) Gramsci's Prison Notebooks 10) Vico's New Science

I would actually put John Dewey's "Experience and Nature" at the top of my list!

I've come back to this list many times over the past few years. I've since worked through the Republic a few times, Aristotle's works, and the Summa. I'm now working on both Being and Time and Phenomenology of Spirit piece by piece. Thank you for supporting my learning, you've never led me astray!

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

Quite a catholic list.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, I have catholic tastes in both senses of the term

Great choices.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love it! I'm thinking that id bring works by literary philosophers like Camus, Dostoevsky, or Nietszche. But perhaps over time the literary flash may wear off and I would crave some really philosophical flesh, a system like you said

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Well, I might end up doing a "10 literary works" video sometime

@LOLittleHero

7 жыл бұрын

please do professor sadler! I would love to know your top 10 literary works. especially if it's something i haven't read yet. I read Rlike's letters because of your rilke lecture, maybe 2 years ago and I've kept coming back to Rilke. thanks for these videos!

@dissatisfiedphilosophy

Жыл бұрын

BORING. psued philosophers

i really enjoy your channel ... thanks ALOT !

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@ubaidh66

9 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Please do a bookshelf tour

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Mike Tyson. That would take a very long time, I think

(this video was my intro actually,) I've finally found the time to read Augustine's books. I'm not a strict Christian but I appreciate the value system and his story interests me. You dun blessed us with all these videos.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Cool! Glad you're reading Augustine - he's well worth it!

My List: 1) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason 2) Spinoza's Ethics 3) Descartes' Meditations 4) Shankara's Brahmasutra Bhashya 5) Harsha's The Sweets of Refutation 7) Heidegger's Being and Time 8) Plotinus' Enneads 9) Aristotle's Metaphysics 10) Nishida Kitaro's An Inquiry Into the Good

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

I think you're missing 6

St.Augustine is by far one of my favorite philosophers. Without a doubt one of the most powerful in his prose and writing. Only other person that comes to being as powerful is Dostoevsky.

@matthewmayuiers

5 жыл бұрын

John Dostoevskys is one of the top 5 writers to ever exist, every sentence is sheer beauty

@a1k131

2 жыл бұрын

If I may ask, I wasn't raised in the Christian culture. I don't believe in supernatural agents. And I used to be a practicing (and reading) muslim. Do you think I could see St. Augustine like you do ? (I've read Dostoevsky with great pleasure).

@ricardooliveira9774

2 жыл бұрын

@@a1k131 I think so man.

@a1k131

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricardooliveira9774 Can you enjoy "the works" of Ebu Hamid Mohammad Ghazali ? He's a Muslim philosopher..

@ricardooliveira9774

2 жыл бұрын

@@a1k131 Hey man, sorry for answer late. It's really different. Al-Ghazali uses a sort of aristotelian philosophy whereas Augustine uses a Neoplatonism philosophy. I haven't see much about Al-Ghazali honestly, but a Christian counter-part would be Thomas Aquinas, he uses aristotelian philosophy as well. But for what I've seen Al-Ghazali focus more in metaphysics and the existence of God, causation, etc whereas Augustine is more about ethics, problem of evil his works are much more about self-reflection, much more poetic.

When I went to university in my first year I had to take a class each semester in a different subject. First semester I chose Anthropology and second Philosophy. Despite the fact that my lecturer was an old grouch it was a mind blowing class (on Human Nature). I often found myself laughing in class, not because the work was humorous but the arguments were so cleverly put together (Hume on Causation and Cartesian Dualism for example). Although I never studied it again, it's such an interesting subject. Unfortunately most theories in text books in my experience so thank you Gregory for making these videos so I can continue to be amazed. Metaphysics was always the most interesting to me, McTaggart on Time, Philosophy of the Mind, Identity etc. If anyone knows any good books on Metaphysics (anything in that regard) or on those subjects, please pass them on, thanks!

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy the videos!

Definitely picking one of SK's pseudonyms work personally as I will need some humor to survive.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Picking it as what?

I'm by no means a philosopher (I've read on the side while studying History), but I'd probably include Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. I'd be hard-pressed to provide a definite work, but I'd have to include Wittgenstein and Hayden White, too. Anyway, I haven't read a few of the ones you listed, so I'll have to get on that, soon.

@davealbrecht1342

7 жыл бұрын

Wittgenstein would be powerfull but too short for a deserted island :)

appreciate the commentary

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Taking Plato into the Cave 3:01!

good list.

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The title of my choice would read'' How to build a boat''.

@MultiBOZA

4 жыл бұрын

That is technology, not philosophy - philosophy has always been considered to be abstract knowledge without specific technical how-to tips! 😅

@emmanueloluga9770

3 жыл бұрын

@@MultiBOZA No it hasn't. Sorry to be a party pauper as I don't know if you made that remarks as a tongue in cheek humor. However, if you were being serious, then you are wrong...or rather most people are clueless to believe philosophy is just about abstract knowledge. In fact, one of the books selected by Dr. Sandler in this list is the Phenomenology of spirit by Hegel who set out in the book to show the concrete nature and requirements of philosophical musings

@michaellangan4450

3 жыл бұрын

@Nick Trosclair Thought of it myself!

Great series of videos, I enjoyed your list, and of course these things are extremely subjective (I take exception with Plato and Descartes, most people would have them on some list or other), but I was genuinely surprised you did not include any of Kant's work, particularly his Critique of Pure Reason, but I see your reasons.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Manuel Armenteros I just don't find Kant as interesting as most of these thinkers. Given the choice to read any of these works or that dry as bones First Critique, I'd take them. That said, if I did have to pick a Kant, it would be either the second or third Critique

@Dreamingforwaking7

9 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Sure, it's a matter of preference, but the consequences of transcendental idealism are immense, as is his influence, but I see your point. By the way I emailed you via your "about" page at: info@reasonio.com.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

That actually goes to our marketing director -- for booking talks. Is that what you were looking for?

@Dreamingforwaking7

9 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler No I thought that was your usual email, apologies...

interesting vid, thanks!

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

BG and Evil Rumi's Masnavi The B Karamazov V. Hugo's Laughing Man Seneca's Dialogues Ralph Waldo Emerson's journals and essays ... However, I haven't read many of the classics you have mentioned, so this list is provisional.

@jupitersstring2823

6 жыл бұрын

By the way, has this list changed for you since you uploaded the video?

Liber librum aperit. (One book opens another) It's hard to limit myself to so few, because I've enjoyed many thoughtful books - and even ones where I'm fairly certain the author is wrong I've enjoyed for the exercise. I'd have to include one of Wylie's essays, like The Magic Animal, Generation of Vipers, or An Essay on Morals, because they've been such a loadstone in my thinking and I've spent so much time thinking about them and eventually thinking beyond and past them. . And on a desert island it seems Robinson Crusoe might be useful... or at least edifying...

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I suppose some of the books that one has spent much of one's life with are like a kind of doorway to conversations with an old friend

@ThePeaceableKingdom

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler I think so. There are some I return to over and over again, and though the words on the page don't change, they do spark new thoughts, and it really is like a conversation with an old friend. Most of them are philosophical, but not capital P Philosophy, per se. I'm thinking of things like Hesiod's "Works and Days" or Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. Shakespeare will do for the literary minded. . I was going to post a list of more canon philosophy books last night but ran out of places, and hadn't even left the Hellenes!

I'd take the Desert Islands essay collection by Deleuze :p

After watching a few of your videos, I guessed from your taste in philosophical dispositions that you were an SIUC graduate. Actually astounded that I was right.

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

That's a surprise to me, given that most other SIUC students weren't all that interested in most of these authors

@sakalak

3 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler By the time I was studying at the school in the late 2000s, Scheler was greatly appreciated and many students were attracted to personalism. My own work was largely on the Fruhromantik reception to late Hegelian logic (obviously with Tyman). I'm enjoying your videos! Merci et bonne journée .

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

@@sakalak Very different department by then, it seems

I know this video is older , but I was wondering if you have a recommended translation of "City of God." Henry Bettenson is the translation you have linked, and I'll use that link if that's the translation you recommend! It's been on my reading list for far too long. I read Confessions a while back and found it incredible. Being familiar with Plato, it was interesting to see those references, and the narrative of the story was outstanding too. But the thing that I found most incredible was was in the last chapters when he turned his search inward. The questions he asked and his insights... I really felt like he was making steps into the theory of the unconsciousness and psychoanalysis without explicitly naming them.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnetzM9uaLG7n9Y.html

Please, who can tell what edition of the Meditations this is? The only french version that includes the objections and replies that I found was horrible GF Flammarion edition (horrible in terms of cover, paper, font..). This one seems to be old, is it still available? Gregory B. Sadler

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

It's published by Presses Universitaires de France in 1970, translated and edited by Florence Khodos. A real gem

@ludophile99

7 жыл бұрын

Yes a gem, definitely. I'll see if I can find it somewhere on the web. Thank you!

I'd cheat and take Complete Works Anthologies of Berkeley, Hume and Nietzsche -- all three of whom I consider some of the best most interesting writers in philosophy. After which I'd add two more: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (just to see if I can finally get through it -- as I consider it to have some of the most exciting ideas in the history of human thought -- but written, unfortunately, in the most boring way possible) and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (to see if I can finally get a REAL sense of why so many consider it such a seminal work).

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that is indeed cheating.

Interesting! Mine (only providing top 5, since top 10 would require a lot more thought) would be - Augustine's Confessions, Epicurus (the only three original texts that remained), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and probably Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Do you mind me asking why you'd pick Augustine's De civitate dei rather than Confessiones?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Well, I did mention my reasons in the video for picking City of God. . .

This a fire video bro 🔥🔥. The republic is one im going through right now. You recommend reading confessions or city of God First?

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

You'll reread both, if you want to develop a solid understanding, so which one you pick first doesn't really matter

Only one I agree with is Aristotle's Metaphysics. Wish you had picked a different dialogue from Plato. Anyway, you make great and interesting/helpful videos, keep it up!

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy them

Obviously, at some point, you're going to have to leave that island and reintegrate back into the human situation. Therefore, I would recommend Alfred Korzybski's "Science And Sanity." I think it might be the most important work ever written on this planet followed (at a distance) by Alfred North Whitehead's "Process And Reality." I liked your program. Thank you for your insights.

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I've read it, decades ago. Wasn't as impressed by it as apparently you are. Glad you enjoyed the video

Great channel, thank you for sharing this interesting list. I see you're leaving out the Stoics, although you are part of the Modern Stoicism movement, (in a desert island I may take at least one text from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus maybe Hadot's Inner Citadel). I also think Spinoza would be in my list, maybe Nietzsche too, but that is of course very personal.

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

You heard the criteria for why I would take the books I did, right?

@naudesign

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I did, great works in themselves that are systematic, and connect with other great works. That rules out the Stoics and Nietzsche I guess, works that you'd read in other circumstances. But Spinoza? it is systematic, great in itself and seems to me quite connected with many of the great authors in your list, answering Descartes' dualism and advancing Hegel's monism. I was only expressing a personal prefference toward those authors.

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not a fan of Spinoza. I think he's pretty overrated, quite frankly.

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

Of course, that doesn't mean that I think he's bad. He's got his interesting points, and I like the challenge of teaching him. But, I wouldn't place him as highly as many people seem to

I'm a little amazed to see that some of the Stoic works aren't in here. Discourses of Epictetus would definitely be on my list.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Check the date of the video

@samisiddiqi5411

5 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler hmm... I would love to see you update this...

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

@@samisiddiqi5411 That's not how KZread works. Once you've uploaded it, you can't effectively edit a video

@samisiddiqi5411

5 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler oh no that's not what I mean. I mean that you should do another video like this one, but from this year.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

@@samisiddiqi5411 I think it would be a better use of my time at the present to do additional top 10 videos about other genres of work

Myth of Sisyphus would be my top pick.

Dr. Sadler, just found your channel. Thank you. I can certainly see your passion for Philosophy and it's contagious. I am new to the subject, have never taken any classes or the like, but would like to start with some reading. As per your recommendations here, I just picked up the following: The Republic The Metaphysics Pensees City Of God Meditations On First Philosophy Which one do I read first? Also, should I possible start with an Introduction to Philosophy book first?

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+El Pizza Guapo I always suggest starting with Plato, but not the Republic. Rather the Meno, Ion, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo

@jabragao

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregory B. Sadler Thank you for the reply. I'm assuming you're referring to the single volume, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics).

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

That would work. You can, of course, find all of those dialogues for free, online

@jabragao

8 жыл бұрын

Of course, but for about $2 per book, no reason why I shouldn't just own them. Maybe the whole family will one day enjoy them.

Just discovered your work on KZread. The 2020 Covid-19 outbreak has been great for exploring philosophy. Am curious as to your selection. No Derrida, Baudrillard?

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

They're not good enough.

I feel like some stoic philosophy would be good when you're on a desert island

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

And so which one book would you pick?

@plonzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler meditations by Marcus aurelius

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

@@plonzz That would be way down on the list. Epictetus' Discourses, Seneca's Letters, even one of Seneca's treatises would be better

@Recondite101

2 жыл бұрын

​@@GregoryBSadler Meditations feels more like a collection of poetically exquisite nothings, whereas Epictetus actually and concisely addresses specific issues. Epictetus > Marcus Aurelius any day

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

@@Recondite101 I think Marcus himself would recognize that Epictetus' Discourses are more meaty than the Meditations. That said, Marcus' stuff is decent

Because I put one of them twice, I would have to add plato's theory of forms.

No Anselm? Great writer, 2. Me, I'm going with his On Free Will and the following 2fers: Aquinas' commentaries on Metaphysics, De Anima, and NE, as well as a splendid 3-fer, Gail Fine's On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms. (4-fer, if you count the footnotes.) Notice that I've got all the branches covered, 2. Whoops, no logic. 'Captain, may I please take my copy of the Kneales' magisterial Development of Logic? And, while you're at it, if I slip you a 20, may I stowaway Geach and Anscombe's 3 Philosophers?'

I had to do a similar thing in school last year, it was because we read Fahrenheit 451 and books are illegal in that universe but they didn't have to be philosophy. I chose the Bible, The Prince, on the Genealogy of Morality, The Spirit of the Laws, Plato's Republic, the Gulag Archipelago, The Rights of Man, and On the Origin of Species. I would probably change my list now that ive learned more

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting assignment there!

I've only studied for a few years now, so my list is bound to change, but here it is: 1. Aristotles Metaphysics 2. Descartes Meditations 3. De Beauvoir's Second Sex 4. Platos republic 5. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations 6. Marx Capital 7. David Chalmers The Conscious Mind 8. Levi Bryant's The Democracy of Objects

@vitormelomedeiros

10 ай бұрын

the Investigations are such a fun read and have such high reread value I feel they are an underrated pick here in Sadler's comments

I noticed you have Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue". Thoughts on that book, communitarianism, and the man himself?

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps down the line, in a video. In the mean time, I've got several videos on him you can watch, and a few writings as well, that you can find in Academia.edu

@Alexander-vz7lk

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir.

Nice discussion. One question though, of your top 5 which would you read first? Thank you for all of your lectures!

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

You're asking which of the top 5 would I suggest someone else read first?

@BobbyB430

8 жыл бұрын

That would be good. Thank you.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

Well, it definitely wouldn't be Hegel to start with! I suppose I'd say to start with the Plato or Descartes

@BobbyB430

8 жыл бұрын

Again Thank you.

The brothers karamazov, thus spake zarathustra, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Huis-Clos, and Spinoza's ethics

@IndianItalianReviews

6 жыл бұрын

Oh and every book by James Joyce (:

Hi Dr Sadler,I am surprised that you didn't include in your list works of Kant, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Russell, Wittgenstein and other outstanding philosophers. I think that perhaps, instead of Pascal's Pensees or Acquinas' Summa, you could have instead put Kant's Critique of Pure Reason which to me is a must read for any student of Philosophy. I would like to thank you for all your videos on philosophy because I know they have helped me a lot.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+Ali Shammary Yep, that's why it's my list, rather than yours. I did discuss why some of the better ones you're bringing up didn't make the cut, like Hume, in the video. I wouldn't include Russell even in a top 100 books for an island myself. If I was to bring one of Kant's Critiques, it would be the second or the third, not the first, since I find those much more interesting Glad you've found the videos useful.

@noahmancino7265

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregory B. Sadler Ha! Totally agree with you about Russell.

I’ve only been studying philosophy for a brief period I can only include 5 that I would genuinely read again 1) The Republic by Plato 2) 2nd Treatise on Government by Locke 3) Critique of Pure Reason by Kant 4) A treatise of Human Nature by Hume 5) Language, Truth and Logic by Ayer Hopefully over time my list will expand and improve

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

All of those are works worth reading and rereading. The Ayer perhaps less so than the others

@nathaneccleston3738

5 жыл бұрын

I never found Locke's Treatise all that impressive tbh. It seemed quite easy to me to criticise his contractarianism and his justification for private property.

Difficult decisions to cut some philosophers/works, but here's my list at present: Plato's Phaedrus Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Kant's 3 Critiques Leibniz' Monadology Sartre's Being and Nothingness --------------- For my tenth, I'll have to borrow one from you that I might not have otherwise come up with -- Descartes' Meditations Great video! I'd love to hear you say more about your experiences with Pascal; I read through a good chunk of Pensees a few years ago and thought it was only so-so. Maybe I should revisit it.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I probably ought to shoot one of those Philosophical Developments videos about my interest in Pascal sometime. . . . Why the Monadology? -- that's basically like Leibniz's analogy to Epictetus' Enchiridion, a quick, very pared down version of his thought (if I were to take either Leibniz or Epictetus with me, I think it would need to be L's Discourse on Metaphysics or E's Discourses)

@Tatezm

10 жыл бұрын

The Monadology is a pretty idiosyncratic choice for me; it's the first book that made me feel like I was able to follow along with some astonishingly high flying mental acrobatics. That being said, I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't read Discourse on metaphysics. I love the whimsy, the economy, and the explanatory power of the Monadology: however, I'm open to amending my choice for one that covers a little more ground :) -- though the economy of the Monadology is a big part of what makes it so endearing!

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

The Monadology was Leibniz's attempt (pretty successful) to provide a synopsis of his philosophical viewpoint. You'll see some of the same themes dealt with, but now in more depth, in the Discourse -- and then the text to follow that up with is the letters between Arnauld and Leibniz, a kind of back and forth debate between the two about some of those ideas

Hi Gregory. Which translation of Augustine's City of God do you recommend?

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

I don't generally worry much about particular translations

I would bring Chicken Soup for the Soul, the Manual for Windows XP, Sharks Don't Get Cancer, the sequel Shark's Still Don't Get Cancer, and Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Well, no accounting for taste, I suppose

Hello Professor, I want to ask you, from your experience in this field, is it better to read philosophy chronologically? I’ve finished Plato and Aristotle, and after that I’ll go for Augustine and the islamic philosophers. Do you think I should carry on like this? Thanks

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

Well, if you are reading chronologically, you're really skipping a lot by jumping from Aristotle to Augustine. You certainly can read in chronological order, but you ought to expect to go back quite frequently to books you've read.

Just subbed after watching this. I was a student of literature who always approached philosophy with a great deal of skepticism, but I appreciate what you are doing here. Maybe I would have more Bergson and Russell on my list. And just one question: which historical era do you think created the most interesting philosophical work? 🍸

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

Which era? That's very tough for me to answer. . .

Just found this channel. You are instantly likeable.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+Adam0804 Thanks!

Late to the party but thought it was a cool exercise so I'll try it out: 1. Nietzsche's Dawnbreak 2. James' Pragmatism 3. Heidegger's Being and Time 4. Dewey's A Common Faith (some very moving passages there) 5. Wittgenstein's Investigations 6. Derrida and Bennington's Jacques Derrida / Circumfession (one of the most fun reads I've ever done, and worth coming back to) 7. Rorty's Philosophy and Social Hope 8. Proust's In Search of Lost Time (considering it's NOT cheating to bring multiple volumes, if the Summa is allowed then the Search is also allowed haha. Maybe in a deserted island I'd actually, finally, finish the whole thing...) 9. Joyce's Finnegans Wake (plenty of time to make sense of the whole thing) 10. Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (good for thinking about death, something I might do a lot in a deserted island...)

@vitormelomedeiros

10 ай бұрын

(can you tell I did three semesters of lit in college? yeah, I figured)

@GregoryBSadler

10 ай бұрын

Interesting list

Henry Thoreau, Walden

Hi Sir, Iam new to philosophy. Can you pls explain why don't you choose "Thus spoke Zarathustra" ?

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+abin raj Its not, in my view, as good or interesting of a work as these others. In fact, I don't even find it the most interesting work by Nietzsche

Unexpected selection, I have never heard of Blondel and am surprised by how many "christian" philosophers you have included. What about Wittgenstein or the British Empiricists? What would also be interesting is a "thematic" list that considers the setting of living on a desert island. Heidegger is definitely a great choice then. Imagine yourself sitting in a tropic Todtnauberg hut. Maybe also something in line with Chalmers' "Constructing The World", like Carnap's "The Logical Structure of the World".

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Probably much less surprising for someone who knows or follows my work, or who has watched any of my other personal videos. I've already discussed Hume and Locke in previous comments here. Wittgenstein, I've done an entire video about previously

@franciscowilhelm1083

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler yeah I've seen that a lot of your videos center around christian themes, I'll visit them later. A book that just came to my mind, although I've not yet read much of it, but seems to be very promising, is Eihei Dogen's "The True Dharma-Eye Treasury", a 2000-page massive essay collection on Zen Buddhism. Have you talked about Buddhism in any of your videos or articles?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I generally don't. It's enough for me to stick with the stuff I'm working on, which will likely keep me very busy for a while

Studies in Pessimism - Schopenhauer

I'm actually reading the Pensees right now and Pascal was way ahead of his time not only in philosophy, but for his theories in probability as well as some of his inventions. His thought really seems to be somewhat of a precursor towards the existentialist movement and I know he had an impact on the writings of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as well. I do believe people make way too much of his "Wager" and I don't think his intentions were to mean some sort of "fake it to make it" type thing...as people make it out to be. I honestly think he was meaning for the atheist to actually try it or be open to belief in God. I highly doubt a man of his intelligence would suggest that you could just slip one past God.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's a funny way to think about it -- which I'd say a lot of people do fall into -- slip[ping] one past God. Kierkegaard was influenced by Pascal, but Nietzsche really didn't seem to like him (understandably so, given the incompatibilities between their perspectives)

Professor where would Maurice Merleau-Ponty be on your list? Top 20? When I started going through Blondel I knew what Ponty meant with his constant mention of action, and I was amazed how his work not only used the good bits of Heidegger, Husserl, Bergson, Scheler, and Blondel, but also contributed to the history of ideas with a number of original thoughts. Do you like his thought?

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

He's interesting, but likely wouldn't be in my top 20

@massacreee3028

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Is it because:A)His work about embodiement is mostly correct, but his scope of thought is still norrow.B)His work about embodiement is not on point, and you prefer somone like Marcel C) there are so many other superior philosophers that blow him out of the water or smth else

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

@@massacreee3028 It's because in the last 30+ years of studying philosophy, I've read hundreds of philosophers. Nobody actually needs reasons NOT to be in the top 20. They needs reasons to push the others out to get in there

Wanted to hear more details about Heidegger , namely Dasein

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Weird to expect it in a short listing video, when you could easily search for other videos in the channel that would satisfy that desire

Epicurus, Nietzsche, Camus, Tolstoy, Bakunin, Kierkegaard, Spinoza, Marx, Thoreau, Benjamin.

How to build a television set so I could watch reruns of Gilligan

@GregoryBSadler

4 жыл бұрын

Not philosophical

I have three of your top five... I have much work to do

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

He also has his own special terminology

Dr. Sadler, have you read the philosophical works of Avicenna or any other great Muslim philosophers? If so, what are your thoughts about their ideas and contribution to the field of philosophy?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I've read some of them, but I'm by no means a scholar in the field of Islamic philosophy. They've got some interesting ideas to examine

Just a question, do you like Schopenhauer?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I do, but he's not someone I read often

do you know which philosophers or books are about emotional intelligence/human nature?

Unfortunately, I think I need a desert island in order to examine Hegel and Heidegger as one should. Otherwise, just give me any ten of Bertrand Russell's books--a beautiful writer as well as a beautiful thinker. I would also like to take Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death," "Escape from Evil," and "The Birth and Death of Meaning." ...Kenneth Burke's "Language as Symbolic Action" and "Rhetoric of Motives." Every time I read Becker and Burke, I fell like Moses is splitting a sea in my head. Anyway, I put Blondel's "Action" on my reading list. Thanks.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I'd actually debated about including Perelman's New Rhetoric. As far as the Hegel goes, if you want to work through the Phenomenology at least, you might take a look at the Half-Hour Hegel series. I've shot 17 installments so far

Dr. Sadler, if you could take only one of Cicero's works which would it be?

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

That is tough. It would definitely be one of the dialogues. Perhaps On The Ends, though I also really like On The Nature of the Gods

@Dgilstrapnature

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughts Professor Sadler. I'm currently re-reading On The Ends, but i have never read On the Nature of the Gods; I'll pick it up on the strength of your recommendation. Best.

Curious about where you think Heidegger went wrong

Have you read any Alain Badiou? Being and Event eg. What do you think about him?

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

He's all right.

Okay, then. Give us your 10-philosophers-anything-you'd-like list. Loving your channel.

@GregoryBSadler

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I did already

A very interested list -- thanks for sharing it. I was a bit surprised to see, however, that Kant's Critique of Pure Reason didn't make it into the top ten.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+C Taylor Read the comments below. Already addressed that one

@ctaylor1460

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregory B. Sadler Yes, thank you, I realize that; I was only commenting that it was the only book that I was surprised not to see in your list. Without giving it too much thought, my list might be something like Republic, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason, Being and Time, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Descartes' Meditations, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, The World as Will and Representation, Spinoza's Ethics, and Genealogy of Morals. I agree, though, that it is a hard list to compile.

@ctaylor1460

8 жыл бұрын

+C Taylor Since I left out Phenomenology of Spirit, I guess Nietzsche gets bumped.

1. Heidegger- Being and Time 2. Sartre- Being and Nothingness 3. Camus- Myth Of Sisyphus 4. Nietzsche- Human All Too Human or The Gay Science 5. Cormac McCarthy- Blood Meridian or Suttree 6. Faulkner- Absalom Absalom! 7. John Milton- The Complete Poems 8. It’s hard to choose a favorite Dostoevsky, either The Brother’s Karamazov or Demons 9. Thomas Pynchon- Gravity’s Rainbow 10.Alexandre Dumas- The Count Of Monte Cristo I liked your list. The only Aquinas I’ve read is ‘Confessions’ but I must admit I read it when I was too young. Have you read this one? Republic is a good book, I only read it maybe twice. I should read more Greek works. Looking forward to Summa Theologica someday. Some of the works I included were fiction but they contain philosophical themes. Blood Meridian is sometimes thought as a Gnostic text, I’ve read one paper where there is a Nietzsche influence, concerning the Judge. Absalom Absalom name derives from Absalom from the Bible and Gravity’s Rainbow is about science and WW2, the opening is very famous: “A screaming came across the sky.” Cheers, have a good day.

@GregoryBSadler

Жыл бұрын

Aquinas didn't write Confessions. You're mixing him up with Augustine, who comes about 8 centuries earlier. And that's an excellent work, but if I was going to bring an Augustine book, it'd be City of God

@TheJudgeandtheJury

Жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler That’s right, I checked my shelf. Silly mistake. If we don’t speak again, merry Christmas. I’ve been deleting some social media apps like Facebook Twitter and Twitch.

Take plenty of eyeglasses. Hegel is the Finnegan's Wake of philosophy.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

It's a good idea to have some extra glasses there in any case

@kenthomas856

7 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Good job. Wish you would list some of the 21st C. philosophers you would recommend.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

ken thomas There isn't anyone in the 21st century at this point, whose works I'd include in the 10 I'd take along to a desert island

@fergal2424

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, imagine getting to the island, having those books, and discovering you had broken your glasses and had none to spare.

What do you think of something like the Enneads which is also pretty systematic? I've noticed that Neoplatonic stuff is seldom spoken of in comparison to other schools of Western philosophy. Why do you think Neoplatonism isn't given much attention even with its vast scope?

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

I think Plotinus is very cool, and if I was doing the "20 works. . ." , he would probably be on my list, or at least in contention. Why isn't Neo-Platonic stuff discussed as much? It tends to get passed over when we teach philosophy (as used to also be the case with the Stoics and Epicureans), unless the instructor understands and likes it. Also, there's a bit more of a learning curve required in order to make sense of what is being discussed.

@LordTrajan117

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting, so would you say that perhaps the difficulty is a bigger factor for it being passed over or is "dislike" or "distaste" a bigger factor based on your experience and experience you've had with your peers? Do philosophers today who still take interest in the classics as you do believe that Plotinus really did have genuine insights into things which others did not have? Do they think the criticisms he makes regarding Aristotle are well founded, considering Aristotle is taken so much more seriously and authoritatively? Sorry if that's too many questions lol, just curious. I personally am very into Plotinus because of the role his philosophical language and concepts play in the Nizari Ismaili Islamic school of thought (Definitely also a big contributor to other Islamic schools and Christianity as well) which I follow and so I've seen the insights that Plotinus has to be truly piercing.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Most of my peers in philosophy have never studied Plotinus or other neo-Platonists, period. They haven't got a distaste or dislike, since they'd have to know enough about his thought to have that reaction. I'd say that when you're talking about "philosophers today who still take interest in the classics", you're actually talking about two very different groups. There's the people who actually study the texts, keep up on the better research, and understand the history. An Aristotle scholar in that line is quite likely to know neo-Platonic stuff as well, and may well appreciate it. Then there's the "great books" or "western civ" types, who usually have relied more on glosses and manuals rather than actually studying the text. They typically have some rather schematic and outdated "history of philosophy" stuck in their heads, one that says Aristotle is really great and the neo-Platonists not so much.

@LordTrajan117

7 жыл бұрын

very interesting.......hmm. So it just gets passed over period. How unfortunate. But ya I can understand it, I'm reading a companion book by Lloyd Gerson right now that my mentor recommended and it's not at all easy but I found it made more sense when I look at what someone like Nasir Khusraw says for example in his works which basically use Neoplatonic concepts to illustrate three hyposteses of Ismaili thought: God, Universal Intellect and Universal Soul. But ya definitely something people should prolly look into more. It actually in that sense in very helpful in reconciling Islam and Christianity when it comes to the Trinity and the concept of tawhid though not completely since in Christianity I believe all the members of the Trinity are coequal whereas in Ismaili Islam, they are arranged in a hierarchy.