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Tomorrow I'll be leading a special seminar leading students through all of the key ideas in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals....

Tomorrow I'll be leading a special seminar leading students through all of the key ideas in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. We'll be meeting in three 90-minute sessions at 9 AM, 11 AM, and 1 PM Central Time. If you're interested, we still have seats open!
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/special-1-day-seminar-friedrich-nietzsches

A post from 2 years back. I'd say that it remains just as relevant in the present. A long time ago, I realized that it's not just...

A post from 2 years back. I'd say that it remains just as relevant in the present. A long time ago, I realized that it's not just ok, but actually overall a good thing to block people who are likely to be bad interlocutors in social media. They often let you know who they are

Here's another core concept video in the series on Plutarch's excellent text How A Person Can Become Aware Of Progress In Virtue....

Here's another core concept video in the series on Plutarch's excellent text How A Person Can Become Aware Of Progress In Virtue. This one looks at two key emotional responses, emulation and admiration, that Plutarch takes as indexes for that progress

https://youtu.be/ZjcY9emXGEU

Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Philip K Dick's novel Ubik, this one looking at one of the central aspects...

Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Philip K Dick's novel Ubik, this one looking at one of the central aspects of the story, the existence of not only psionic talents but also the anti-psionic talents of "intertials" that cancel those out

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/philip-dick-ubik-psionic-and

An iconic picture Andi took of me and the late great Sassy cat doing our morning thing upstairs before heading down together to have some...

An iconic picture Andi took of me and the late great Sassy cat doing our morning thing upstairs before heading down together to have some breakfast and get started on the day's work

Every once in a while, I get up on a proverbial soapbax to air my views about some topic. Here's one about who the blame and the...

Every once in a while, I get up on a proverbial soapbax to air my views about some topic. Here's one about who the blame and the hardships ought to fall on when academic institutions wind up short of money through poor planning or imprudent projects. Who are those people? Administrators and trustees

https://youtu.be/2-lyZUOHiMQ

Some people when they learn a bit about a complex philosophical movement and what people in it think draw conclusions that might seem...

Some people when they learn a bit about a complex philosophical movement and what people in it think draw conclusions that might seem reasonable don't really fit what those thinkers actually say. Here's a piece about one of those cases that arose in a talk
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/freedom-choice-and-success-the-real

Here's part 2 of my interview on the Phlyover Podcast, hosted by Chris Outlaw, which kicks off with me suggesting that young people...

Here's part 2 of my interview on the Phlyover Podcast, hosted by Chris Outlaw, which kicks off with me suggesting that young people interested in studying philosophy probably shouldn't follow the path I took!

https://youtu.be/b7R8pqFMPpE

Coming up this weekend, we'll be exploring Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals together in this special seminar covering all the key...

Coming up this weekend, we'll be exploring Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals together in this special seminar covering all the key ideas of the work! We've still got some seats available, for anyone who wants to join us!

https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/special-seminar-nietzsche-genealogy

One of the key aspect of the narrative world in Philip K Dick's Ubik is the technology cold-pac, which allows people who are physically...

One of the key aspect of the narrative world in Philip K Dick's Ubik is the technology cold-pac, which allows people who are physically dead to live on in "half-life". As we'll find out later in the novel, that world ends up being a significant setting

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/philip-dick-ubik-death-cold

Here's the first of an entire set of new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Philip K Dick's novel Ubik. We start out by...

Here's the first of an entire set of new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Philip K Dick's novel Ubik. We start out by looking at the advertisements for Ubik as a host of products placed at the beginning of nearly each chapter of the enigmatic story

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/philip-dick-ubik-the-ubik

Just went in and updated this resource page in my Substack with the session recording from the latest Classic Metal Class, which did a deep...

Just went in and updated this resource page in my Substack with the session recording from the latest Classic Metal Class, which did a deep dive into the role of hard rock and metal magazines in the 1970s and 1980s. Links to all 37 sessions there now!

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/classic-metal-class-session-videos

Interesting sum-up of recent research on the origins of domesticate cats, which researchers now believe goes back a good ways further than...

Interesting sum-up of recent research on the origins of domesticate cats, which researchers now believe goes back a good ways further than originally thought

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-house-cat

One index Plutarch suggests we can use in How A Person Can Be Aware Of Progress In Virtue is comparison between our past emotional responses...

One index Plutarch suggests we can use in How A Person Can Be Aware Of Progress In Virtue is comparison between our past emotional responses and our present ones. Here's a core concept video exploring what he has to say more specifically about this

https://youtu.be/SgFH7B-nr9I

Got a late start to the day. Slept in, then went over to the office, had a great client meeting, and have going through messages and emails...

Got a late start to the day. Slept in, then went over to the office, had a great client meeting, and have going through messages and emails and had an early lunch of leftovers. Lots of video production and writing to get to today, which is good since its drizzly & dreary outside

Here is a new video that was commissioned to address three key questions:1. What do I understand philosophy to be? 2. What are we doing when...

Here is a new video that was commissioned to address three key questions:
1. What do I understand philosophy to be?
2. What are we doing when we study philosophy?
3. What are our aims, or what we are trying to convey in an Intro to Philosophy course?

https://youtu.be/uYuXb3r43H0

Came across this set of tweets today that I'd reposted a while back, which provide some excellent advice that definitely hasn't lost...

Came across this set of tweets today that I'd reposted a while back, which provide some excellent advice that definitely hasn't lost its relevance. One of those "if the shoe fits. . . ." sort of things

We're four days out from the special online seminar on Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals that I'm offering on Saturday,...

We're four days out from the special online seminar on Friedrich Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals that I'm offering on Saturday, May 31st. Running from 9 AM to 3 PM Central Time (with breaks built in). We'll go through the key ideas from the entire work!

https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/special-seminar-nietzsche-genealogy

Here's the last Sadler's Lectures podcast episode in the set of 19 on the first three parts of Max Scheler's short book...

Here's the last Sadler's Lectures podcast episode in the set of 19 on the first three parts of Max Scheler's short book Ressentiment. This one looks at his discussion of whether Christian love can be adequately brought under secular notions and structures

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/max-scheler-ressentiment-9

Here's a short piece I wrote about the late great Alasdair MacIntyre with a few memories of interactions that to me showed what kind of...

Here's a short piece I wrote about the late great Alasdair MacIntyre with a few memories of interactions that to me showed what kind of person he was

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/a-few-memories-of-alasdair-macintyre