Gregory B. Sadler, PhD

01/14/2025

We still have a few seats open for the online class I'm offering, which starts on Thursday, 9 AM Central Time! Learn what insights about friendship ancient philosophers worked out, and how to apply them to your own relationships in the present day!

Full tuition for Ancient Philosophers On Friendship 12-week online course, including participation in weekly lecture/discussion sessions, access to course resources including downloadable handouts and worksheets, and lifetime access to class session recordings

01/14/2025

On the one hand, it sucks to lose in the playoffs to the Eagles. On the other hand, a meme like this at the Cowboys' expense? Gotta post
You can tell my formative years as a Packers' fan were in the lean years of the 70s-80s when the Cowboys were "America's team" (but not for us)

01/14/2025

Here's the last of 5 Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Karl Popper's article "Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition", this one looking at the functions that traditions have within human social life, and why utopian schemes don't work out as planned

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher Karl Popper's article "Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition", found in his book Conjectures and Refutations. It focuses specifical

01/14/2025

Last year, I took old videos I shot of me playing the banjo and singing cover songs, boosted the sound quality as best I could, and started releasing them. Hoping this year to get in practice time and shoot a few more . Here's the playlist with 5 songs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIhicjuL1qBR4V-7TSEMxVTB

01/13/2025

Here's the lastest Ideas That Matter interview video, this one with Jack Visnjic, the Director of Research at the Anacyclosis Institute, discussing political regimes, social discord and faction, and whether regimes do cycle from one to another

Request personal videos on Cameo - https://www.cameo.com/gregorybsadlerCheck out Jack Visnjic - https://anacyclosis.org/jack-visnjic/Want to support my work?...

01/13/2025

Looking for video or downloadable podcast resources on Rene Descartes' work Meditations on First Philosophy? Here's a resource page with links to 22 lectures in both formats focused on every important idea, argument, or distinction in the work!

One of the first primary texts I sought out to read on my own as a philosophy major my first semester in college (33 years back) was Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. I wasn’t all that successful in making sense of it, but I made other runs at it, a few as an undergraduate, many i...

01/13/2025

Coming up this Saturday we've got a 1-day intensive online seminar focused on G.W.F. Hegel's famous Master-Slave dialectic We will be examining the dialectic itself, selected interpretations and how Hegel takes us beyond that early shape of consciousness.

Enroll in the intensive 1-day seminar on G.W.F. Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic for $99.00 - https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/hegel-s-master-slave-dialectic-a...

01/13/2025

Ain't that so often the case!

01/13/2025

Here's the fourth Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Karl Popper's article Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition, this one looking at his distinction between traditions and institutions, and how individual persons interact with both of them

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher Karl Popper's article "Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition", found in his book Conjectures and Refutations. It focuses specifical

01/13/2025

Today my two online classes at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design begin. Got my first class session later on today. Still a good bit of building to do in the course sites (I'm always adding new resources and revising), but the first few weeks are all set up and ready

01/13/2025

Well, after that rough playoff game, beset with injuries, penalties, and a few bad/failed calls, it might be time again to post this piece I wrote back in a much worse Packers season

can you strive to be be a Stoic but also cheer on your team?

01/12/2025

Got a nice plate of pickles, olives, artichoke, and three kinds of cheese on a plate for us to snack on for the game. Off camera: some Camembert, two kinds of pickled herring, and some crackers

01/12/2025

Going to get translation & video work in before the game starts this afternoon, and saw this cool sight in the Milwaukee river on the walk over to the office. Big chunks of ice floating down the river, drawn by the current, headed out to our great inland sea

This Youtube short is of a scene on a warm Winter day after snowfall and the river freezing over. The water temperature remains high enough to melt the ice, ...

01/12/2025

Here's the third Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Karl Popper's piece "Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition", this one about what Popper thinks social science and theory ought to be revealing to us, if they're doing their jobs effectively

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher Karl Popper's article "Towards A Rational Theory Of Tradition", found in his book Conjectures and Refutations. It focuses specifical

01/12/2025

Aristotle tells us in Nicomachean Ethics bk 7 that anger is closer to reason than some other emotions and drives, and that it even "syllogizes". But it usually reasons wrongly, and can even seduce our practical rationality. Here's a piece discussing how

Aristotle reveals some of the ways anger leads us astray in our thinking