>grabs cup >holds it for 10 seconds >puts it back down

@JohnDoe-jt9oq

5 жыл бұрын

You know you're passionate about something when you can do it and forget to eat/drink.

seeing this lecture in 2022, can't believe how informative this series is. I'm 20 and only getting started with philosophy, really looking forward to the content you've posted to help me sail! thanks!

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

It's not like studying and teaching philosophy has radically changed in a decade!

@AnthonyGargini

Жыл бұрын

You say 20 like that's old

@aditi3586

Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyGargini I felt thats old compared to when some of my friends that pushed me to start reading some of these works started lol

@lavande5252

Жыл бұрын

Hello , I'am 2o yo too ... and I just started with philosophy... well I studied it before 2 years when I was 17 to 18 ... bcz of school i wrote articles about different topics. Now I want to start from the beginning like I want a good base . So do I watch a lot of these opening to philosophy? . Or what's your advice... ? Thank you .

@aditi3586

Жыл бұрын

@@lavande5252 My advice to you would be to watch a nice introductory video (there are many on youtube, many good ones by sir gregory sadler too) and maybe just jump right into reading some original works. I found "early modern philosophy" easy to read. You can start there with descartes, hume, locke and all. They have some good works on epistemology, and once you have read those... maybe try reading theaetetus and euthyphro by plato, that should develop a solid foundation for you! You can try reading other works based on your taste!

..sitting here and every time You asked a question and had no answer for a long time I replied as if I was in that class... I miss taking classes and having an active teacher who communicates with students on the same level. I took a class in World Religion, Life and Death and Ancient Beliefs. It was one of my favorite classes, mainly because the teacher was very easy to talk to. He encouraged us to ask questions and I always did, because I was really interested in all that. He also had a lot of experience in mythology, spiritualism and philosophy and I never missed a single class of his. I am really passionate about psychology as well and I believe philosophy is a great base for it, but can only take us this far. I enjoyed the lecture thus far and also managed to learn few new fancy words in English. Thank You.

I like Sadler's philosophy lecture. When I think about how to teach my students philosophy, his video is very useful. I wish my students enjoyed his lectures.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful for you

@leidjamone5430

6 жыл бұрын

He was amazing...

Simply Brilliant, thank you so much for this post. I'm a Music Major, but Philosophy has always intrigued me! Thank you once again for this post!

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+Emilian Cailean You're very welcome!

You've done a fantastic job at making philosophy relate-able. I'm still working on having people implement it as a habit. I was definitely thinking about some sort of reading group at the college! I'll probably just have to get some of the professors together, discuss the possibility of one of them supporting it, and ask to make 3-min pitches at the beginning of their class to start one up. Thanks!

Amazing class, I'm considering to study and focus into philosophy after studying another fields like business and social communication... I've been always a huge fan of thinking process in general but never thought of studying it. Your videos are really inspiring me. Thank you!

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Glad to read that you're finding the videos useful. If you're engaged now in studying philosophy, you might then consider enrolling in one of my online classes, or taking one of my online seminars

This guy looks like the Steven Seagal of philosophy! Great video!

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it

@wilsonc.6234

7 жыл бұрын

sanchoblade1983 that's because he is the Steven seagulls of philosophy

Simply put, Yes

Absolutely love your lectures. Wondering if you could repeat comments and questions from the class, can't always hear them. Keep it up. I stumbled onto your channel and plan to watch it all.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Well, since all of these videos -- where I'm engaging with students, in face to face classes -- have already been shot, no, I won't be repeating comments and questions. I'm not teaching face to face classes this year, though I am doing several talk series for the general public. Glad you enjoy the videos! Watching them all would be quite an undertaking now -- there's over 500 of them. . . .

@petercolver6391

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler I meant in the future lol. Either way, thank you for the video's. 500 hours? Challenge accepted.

Implementing it as a habit -- now that's an interesting way to put it, very practical, actually, and at the same time, it also fits into how Aristotle would see it -- eventually it becomes a habitus, something that is an enduring part of a person's mind. The plan you're outlining here sounds quite good -- you get someone to commit to leading it, organizing, etc (and you could do some of that yourself as well), and then publicize it. I'd say also think about disciplines related to philosophy

I'm starting college next year, it's good to have such good quality content on KZread. Thanks :)

@GregoryBSadler

7 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Helpful in my year long quest - Bertrand Russell, Cottingham and Kenny. Lectures by Sadler and Holmes. Wish me luck!

@GregoryBSadler

6 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Thanks for the video :) I really want to get people involved, including friends and family, in some philosophical discussions. This video was clear and a great starting point to get people interested. Sometimes people write philosophy off because its really difficult to show its importance. To a degree they're correct, but fitness and wellness are just as equally useless if one doesn't plan to put em into action. Hopefully these videos will facilitate some movement!

Starting my class TODAY Day 1 .....I have waited too long postponing the wave that just wants to engulf me. Such is your teaching. I hope to complete this in 4 months with main readings from Aristotle and Plato, mainly for now.

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Yes, I'm willing to bet that this particular premise has been used quite a bit -- The Pink Panther movies come to mind, for instance, with the clueless Clouseau

Well, after you take into account the fact that in each of those fields there are different schools, with different conceptions of their discipline. . . . Philosophy of . . . tends to be a more restricted enterprise, focused on a smaller set of topics, often more foundational ones, often involving accounts or argument. A linguist might, for instance work on dialect-mapping projects their entire career, and never worry about just what language (or dialect) actually is (key word, might. . . )

You know, if you want to get involved in ongoing philosophical discussion, you might consider doing something like starting a reading group or what they call a "Philosophy Cafe" these days. I have to admit I've not done that myself, but there's a lot of talk about it. It is sometimes rather difficult to get people involved! Particularly family, I'd say. As for the video, I'm planning some more along these lines -- viewers have been asking for groundwork kind of stuff. . . .

Definitely, I'd need a professor who was more well-versed in the various disciplines than myself. I suppose each month could be dedicated to some topic, in broad, with recommended readings. An old professor had a small philosophy club -- which got me introduced to the subject -- where he discussed topics in mathematics. Could be fun! Thanks!

Well, it's a matter of developing a "feel" for those sorts of things, I'd say, by just slogging away in the field. I would say this: if you want to use that morality-ethics distinction, just be aware that it gets made multiple ways, and say to your interlocutors something like: "I realize that this could go different ways, but for the purposes of our discussion, I'm going to make this distinction, and here's what I mean by these terms. . . . "

first bit of the first main lecture/discussion of the new academic year. . .

@germanguzman8521

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregory B. Sadler BEAST

Great lecture!

@GregoryBSadler

10 ай бұрын

Thanks

oh I haven't seen anywhere that you have answered so fast. thanks! what are the main differences, grosso modo?

I signed up for a intro to philosophy class at my community college my class starts this coming Monday I just had a question about philosophy and if it involves a lot of math because I'm dyslexic and only know basic math. Thank you.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

if it involves a lot of math - No If you start to run into difficulties, and are looking for an experienced instructor as a tutor, here's my site: reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/

Hi professor, Aren’t you going to download more lectures .Your lectures were very helpful and informative even though I have not studied philosophy

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

I guess you haven't looked at my channel yet, right?

Thankyou Dr.

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+Jasper Haokip You're welcome

Do you happen to have any videos on the presocratics? If so, I cannot find them. P.S. I'm trying to follow along by reading the works before watching each of these videos. I'm doing a sort of close reading thing with them. I'm working on my third pass over Meno right now.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

I don't have any on presocratics, with the exception of some brief mentions of Aristotle's takes on them in the vids on his Metaphysics. That's a good way to use the videos, I think. . . I get the impression that there's some just using them as a replacement for the texts, which is the opposite of what I'm hoping for!

I hope my Intro to Philosophy class at SBCC will be like this!

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Well. . . I wouldn't go in with too much expectations along those lines. Style of teaching, and the content covered, varies wildly between different philosophy profs.

"ah yeah that's a big one"

Is their any philosopher you would recommend on the topic of death? I'm puzzled about what happens to us when we die. I noticed Schopenhauer talks on the topic when I read the Cambridge companion to Schopenhauer.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Well, there's quite a few philosophers who discuss death, from Plato on. Is there any one single person I'd suggest? No. I'd start with the discussions of death in Plato's dialogues, though

Every participation by the students is 'a good one', hehe.

"Hi I'm Penn and this is my partner Teller"

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I make jokes that others came up with years ago

this is great i wish I had watched this playlist before trying to delve into your existentialist videos lol

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

Well, one can always go back and watch them again

@andress4780

7 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler I'll have you know I plan on watching all these while eating cold cereal in the morning

Thank you! Starting today, I'm going to go through your entire channel!

@GregoryBSadler

6 ай бұрын

There are over 3000 videos in it at this point. I expect that will take you a while

@Over-Boy42

6 ай бұрын

@GregoryBSadler Oh, absolutely! But the journey of a million miles begins with one step.

i would like to know what is your take on if there are differences or not between philosophy of religion and religious studies and philosophy of language and linguistic.

This maybe a question lost in the 4 year old video, but I'm a junior in high school interested in philosophy (from a relatively small district so there are no clubs or classes that would encompass this), I visited the philosophy subreddit, and they directed me to this video. Many said to start on Greek literature, since I seem to be a little intimidated by just the shear amount of videos and content, what would you suggest I start on in your playlists? My background knowledge is very little, the only formal education I've been exposed to is the content in this video. Thank you in advance if you reply.

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

I'd suggest starting with the Intro to Philosophy sequence. But you should be reading the texts, not just watching videos

Great video! I love philosophy, so I'm already aware of all of these concepts, but I enjoy the topic. Moreover, I enjoy seeing someone else who enjoys philosophy speak about it. 20:06 In epistemology, I'm very interested in whether there is any degree of direct doxastic voluntarism. I found a good paper on this by, I believe, Nishi Shah. I'm convinced that people do have direct control over, at least, the formation of those beliefs for which the warrant is equal (or nearly equal) to the warrant for their alternatives. Maybe you can share your ideas on this topic? I did want to let you know that at the end of the 'Intro to Philosophy' playlist a 'Religion in America' video has crept in (#28).

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Well, I tend to avoid (and find uninteresting and often obfuscating) jargon like "doxastic" and "voluntarism" and "warrant", which Analytics tend to use to think through matters. So, I've got nothing really to say about whether there is a degree of direct doxastic voluntarism. I'd say we have some degree of involvement and choice in what it is that we believe. Some more, some less. If you like to call that "voluntarism", you're perfectly free to do so (pun intended). I'm much more interested in how this would work, what thinkers would help us understand that, and how we get matters more right, than in classifications. So, I'm not likely to be of much help to you on this matter

@Real_LiamOBryan

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler I tend to agree with you about avoiding unnecessary jargon; however, in this case (if you do get into studying about it) I can't find more fitting terms. For example: the name of the topic could be called something like "direct volition concerning the formation of beliefs". However, this would be both more verbose and less accurate. The term volition is only one part of voluntarism. Yeah! I hear you man. I too am interested in how it would work. I'm sort of stuck in-between direct and indirect voluntarism (I'm sorry, I don't know what other terms to use). I'm woefully ignorant of philosophical authors. I'm hoping to remedy that soon; however, for now, I am teaching myself the major languages of western philosophy in order to read them in the original languages. Could you suggest authors on the topic? I think that Plantinga writes about the issue and subscribes to indirect doxastic voluntarism. I already mentioned Shah. I think that he subscribes to direct voluntarism; however, I don't think he believes that the beliefs are causally non-deterministic (or indeterminate, I don't know the proper term).

Usually that's the case

Hello Mr. Sadler - Thank you for your video..However, my struggle goes on to "Philosophy of Law". I jumped into philosophy (not a easy subject) with no preparation of an introduction, and failed 2 of my tests already. I thought you could suggest simple methods to perceive the subject. I read Harts and know am reading "Natural Law & Natural Rights". John Finnis. Thank you

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

I don't know enough about the class you've signed up for, or the situation you're in to tell you much of anything here. This would be the sort of thing that I'd usually handle in tutorial sessions. If you're interested in that sort of thing, you can email me at greg@reasonio.com

Thanks for the videos sir.. I am from India.. I just started reading western philosophy ... after seen this video i got question like what is the basic difference between Ethics and Philosophy of Human nature? i thought Ethics are derived from the human nature so why they keep it in two separate areas in philosophy

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

surya prakash Naidu You'll find, as you study Philosophy further, that some people do distinguish between them, others don't. As to your specific question, if X is derived from Y, that doesn't mean X is the same thing as Y. In fact, they're quite often two distinguishable things.

Hello Dr Sadler. Thank you for making these lectures accessible to an 18 year old in a third world country where philosophy has a partial taboo on. Do you have any techniques to ground yourselves?

@GregoryBSadler

9 ай бұрын

I don’t know what you mean by “ground yourself”

@nub6222

9 ай бұрын

​@@GregoryBSadlersorry for the late response, but staying sane essentially 😅

@GregoryBSadler

9 ай бұрын

@@nub6222 Keeping matters in perspective certainly helps

Well, it's unsurprising that most people in liberal democratic societies would take that as their default and starting point. Perhaps a good antidote to that is the study of the history of ideas

Just curious what University this is? I am enjoying your teaching.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Marist College. At present, I've moved entirely to online teaching for them

@stephenlleeds

9 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler Nice! That is a beautiful college.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

stephenlleeds It certainly does have a beautiful campus

@GregoryBSadler

8 жыл бұрын

+stephenlleeds This was at Marist College

Is the question of weather reality exists with is the individual mind or if it resides purely in the realm of the material a metaphysical question?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jakegoldberg7178

10 жыл бұрын

Okay, thanks. Your videos always help a lot.

Is there a textbook for this lecture?

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

There is not. I have my students read primary sources, which are usually available in the public domain online

I ask myself...Where does ontology fall and how is it related to metaphysics? Which founds which? A metaphysical question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" But we maintain ourselves within the "is" and the metaphysical question presupposes it. So we first must ask what the "is" means. And so it looks like ontology is the foundational philosophy of the two. But you can't do ontology without "the thing which is" -- which are entities and these must and are available to us in some way. What I am getting at is that it seems one has to presuppose some sort of metaphysics to even do ontology. By inquiring any entity as to its being we have already delineated that the entity we are studying, and studying it as it presents itself, "is the case". But isn't the question of "what is the case" or "what is really there?" a metaphysical question? I'm so foggy headed in this distinction between ontology and metaphysics. Perhaps there is nothing to be distinguished? Its actually probably on account of my lack of understanding of these terms...Just a thought I will continue to think about...

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

In my book, ontology and metaphysics are pretty much the same thing -- using different terms to denote the study of being as such, the relations between beings, etc. People have used those two terms in such varied ways over the course of philosophy, that it's always important to ask what particular understanding of metaphysics or ontology one is encountering or using. It's a similar issue with "ethics" and "morality" or "morals". People like to make distinctions between them, but they always end up being rather provincial distinctions, which can't be readily applied to the whole history of philosophy (where other thinkers used them different ways)

@fakk20

9 жыл бұрын

Ontology precedes epistemology. In that sense, we cannot know anything if we are unable to know them, i.e., we would not be able to inquire into anything if we did not exist.

@agreczynka

9 жыл бұрын

The use of terms depends greatly on which tradition of philosophy you are using: realism or idealism. Metaphysics falls into realistic tradition as it considers beings or entities as separate and independent from thinking although intelligible. Ontology is traditionally associated with idealistic way of thinking in which either ideas are precondition of being or are identified as being per se.

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Anna Greczynka That's one -- but certainly not the only -- way to make the distinction, and it's tradition-bound as well. Better, for the casual viewer, who doesn't need to be bound to any particular tradition, simply to say: some people like to distinguish the two. They've got their reasons. They're not universally recognized ones. So, as far as MY class goes, I'm not going to worry students with them

Am still a on student financial crisis ....the issue was, the school offered( according to my curriculum) a second minor in Legal Studies, and I thought it was a great idea. Only did I know it would cost my life. I dont get! The school learning center said that they dont have a tutor for the subject and that I should of taking a introduction or any other moral or ethic class before, so its only normal felling overwhelmed. My only concern is the fact that I am graduating in May 2015 (or not).

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Again, I've given you my email address. I handle tutorial matters through that, not as KZread comment conversations.

how have they not seen the matrix?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

It came out in 1999. The average 18 year old student in this class would have been 4 years old in 1999.

Kids don't know what Matrix is about? Come on! I'd have so many questions down there..

@munzybanks271

8 жыл бұрын

I could give a thirty minute presentation on the matrix

im interested in philosophy but is philosophy about the mind and the mysterious questions that are yet to be answered such as does the Bermuda triangle really exist and if so what happened to the disappearances that occurred

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Not really. . . .

@G4MERZELITE

10 жыл бұрын

Gregory B. Sadler could u explain what philosophy is please

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

That's what the video is about

Dont some things need to be objective to be applicable to all? like morals such as murder? maybe i am not thinking deeply into this, what are your thoughts?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Sure, that's one way to think about objectivity. Not sure, given all of the stuff we're discussing in this video, why the subjective-objective distinction seems to be the one thing you're focused on

does life have purpose if you die and everyone u touched die too. i keep thinking if we dont live on in some way forever our lives had no purpose or meaning

@iamnotavampirebutifeellike9925

8 жыл бұрын

use that to your advantage. if you don't believe life has a purpose, create one for yourself and others around you.

Yeah. . . I don't buy it. Every such distinction -- and I've seen a lot of them in my years of studying, teaching, and writing about this stuff -- ends up beginning from some arbitrary starting point, from which the person decides "ethics/ethical" means this "moral/morals/morality, etc" means this. After you've seen enough of those distinctions made -- and how often they differ from each other. . . and if you work in the history of ideas, seeing people use the terms interchangably. . . .

Anarchist would rather have no government and call it direct democracy. It's about not having a leader, but a society of leaders.

do a video on Law & Philosophy

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

Perhaps when I roll out the new channels, starting this Fall

@BossChronicles

10 жыл бұрын

what University do you teach at? what books would you recommend to someone beginning to study Philosophy logic and reason?

I may have just stumbled upon a mountain of riches

@GregoryBSadler

2 жыл бұрын

Or into a maze of rabbit holes!

Are you trying to point out that some things are subjective and other things are objective?

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

No. I'm not usually all that interested in that distinction. If something is "subjective," I want to know just how it is so, and from what standpoint, not just that it is so. Same for "objective". Rather slippery terms, when you get down to it

I think the question that irritates me the most is, why is there something rather than nothing at all? I mean why does the universe exist? That's my number one philosophical compliant, not knowing the answer.

Who were the 8 people who disliked this?

@GregoryBSadler

5 жыл бұрын

Who knows? There's almost always someone!

neo was unplugged from a false reality and brought into reality. a false reality seems like a contradiction.

@GregoryBSadler

10 жыл бұрын

And yet we're able to speak of it, paradoxically, and it turns out. . . it's not

Metaphysics = beyond physics

How much you be your tutor?

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

I handle that through email

I'm 15 and I watched Matrix and I certainly connected it to the allegory of the cave. I believe that this was where you were going with this example but unfortunately the students were not familiar with it. Oh, and nice video by the way, I am just starting to study philosophy as a hobby and that was a great introduction.

Few in your class have seen the Matrix,,, fuck I'm getting old... O.O

@GregoryBSadler

7 жыл бұрын

And this is from years ago. . .

There isn't one leader or group of leaders in an Anarchist society.

6:48 KNAWledge

These guys haven't seen the matrix. I'm only 27 WTF!

@GregoryBSadler

9 жыл бұрын

Yep. Not a lot of longevity to cultural products these days!