Haha, me and my gf chuckled when we saw this on our feed. You look quite happy. I like these 'booktube-ish' unboxing videos you have going on, interesting to see what you've purchased and to get some good recommendations. Thanks!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome - glad the two of you enjoyed it!

DUDE! I WANT A 35-pound box of books. LOL Love the vid!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

You gotta find someone willing to send one. Kind of luck of the draw, you know!

Great video! Exciting. 🙂

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

A very interesting and cool box of goodies, professor!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, all thank's to my friend who reads a lot

What an amazing gift. You have a good friend.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

He is indeed

That looks like so much fun 🤣 I actually just finished reading through the Inner Citadel; my first foray into Hadot’s work. It was unexpectedly dense and satisfyingly comprehensive.

@jholloway77

2 жыл бұрын

I just started it. I'm happy to hear that it is satisfying!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Hadot is pretty good. I tend to think he gets way too much credit for the "philosophy as a way of life" idea, which as he himself notes, was around for a long time before he came on the scene

@jeffsullivan4182

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Yea definitely; that’s sort of what I was expecting going into the book and why I put it off. Chris Gill mentioned it positively in his commentary on the Meditations, so I finally thought I’d give it a go. What really got me was how Hadot lays out the unity of the broader Stoic system, using all of the surviving sources. He tries to make Epictetus’ Topoi correlate with the Logic-Physics-Ethics division attested for the Old Stoa which necessitates covering the whole thing. He situates it historically in an interesting way too (he spends a lot of pages trying to categorize what kind of work the Meditations is). It’s kind of a shame he’s primarily the “philosophy as a way of life” guy; there’s a lot of seemingly pretty good academic work in there imo. TLDR: Went in expecting a list of self-help techniques, ended up with a heavily end-noted full systematization of Stoicism and a lot of history about how ancient Romans wrote books.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffsullivan4182 I gotta say: I'm unconvinced by the "let's fit the different things together" stuff. Way too schematic. Epictetus' division of three fields isn't even the only one we have - Seneca discusses a different such arrangement in his letters

@jeffsullivan4182

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregoryBSadler Very true. I definitely don’t buy the idea itself, but that organization makes Hadot have to treat a huge number of topics. Every so often the placement of something will seem a bit forced, but usually the theory itself will be good or at least interesting (“here’s the Stoic definitions of time from Stobaeus; here’s what Marcus and Seneca say; okay if we put these together here, and this means this, we get a cohesive system that works this way!” Cool! “…And it connects to the Discipline of Desire like this!” Alright… yea, that isn’t wrong… I guess) I will say that people using Hadot’s organization as if it were the official order is unfortunate. I’d have to dig through the book again but I think at one point even Hadot himself says something like “since all aspects of the Stoic system are interconnected, this order would only have been relevant for the order of instruction in a Stoic school” seemingly giving himself a way out. In any event, I can’t wait for my copy of Margaret Graver’s Stoicism and Emotion to get here; that’s gonna be great with no need for caveats.

hey greg i like the idea about the half hour video about a new stoicisim, i'm sure others will enjoy it as well.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

We'll see. It would be a series, not a single video, if I were to do it

@AdamFiregate

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great idea!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamFiregateIt would be dependent, like the Half Hour Hegel series is, on adequate crowdfunding

Step 1: search how much kilograms 35 pounds are Step 2: wow there are a lot of books in that box

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed there were

Haha yes. This is great!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Can I voice my support for a half hour series on Becker's A New Stoicism? It's on my reading list, but I keep putting it down as the writing makes my head spin

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

You certainly can. First, the Half Hour Hegel series has to be brought to a successful conclusion. Then I would have to find crowdfunding support for the project

Cool haul. What book would you recommend to an absolute beginner in regards to Stoicism?

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mI2h07quh7jPqqw.html

Wow

“35 Pound Box of Books” - ah so I see you ordered two Hegel books.

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

I expect my heaviest Hegel work is less than 2 lbs, so nah

When you get a chance please look up a book called Visionary Leadership Skills by Robert B. Dilts...!!!! Thank you for your teachings on line! You make it so easy to have fun and, learning great content!!!! GOD BLESS YOU , THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

If you want it reviewed, feel free to send me a copy Glad you enjoy the videos!

You're going to have to get more shelves from IKEA! 😀

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

For that amount, no