Gorgeous afternoon today, in the 70s still. Sitting out with an NA stout and reading Russell’s second Sparrow series novel, listening to the gulls, while the blazing sun makes its way down to the waters
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Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
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Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy
@philosopher70
teaches, studies, & produces content about philosophy (also MKE, cats, & heavy metal) https://t.co/ebO3Klv7yI https://t.co/0Sd080h8SV
Milwaukee, WI Katılım Eylül 2009
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Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Jorge Luis Borges short story, The Immortal. This one looks at the second part of the story, the experience of immortality, and why the immortals would seek an end to their otherwise eternal lives
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Coming up today at Noon Central, we've got a special session of Worlds of Speculative Fiction. Number 100! Join me for a discussion of the series now in its 11th year, genres, worldbuilding, and philosophical themes!
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@LukeEpplin You wonder what's going on in their heads. . .
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@philosopher70 Yeah, if you want to reach out and talk about my book, awesome. And then at the very end point out a typo—I can take that. But if it’s just the typo…
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Taking your first opportunity to engage with an author to point out some minor problem nothing can really be done about . . . I get those too occasionally, but far more often on videos already released that I'm not going to reshoot because of a typo on a slide or the chalkboard
Luke Epplin@LukeEpplin
It never fails: you publish a book and within weeks the emails come in: "Hey, I liked your book and all, but on page 257, there's a typo that I want to call your attention to...." I don't understand this impulse to contact authors in this way.
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Feels like it happened further back, but apparently I had my first major surgery 2 years ago. I was unduly optimistic about the time it would take to fully recover and heal up, but to be fair, so was the surgeon. Another one of those matters where my wife's take was dead-on!
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Here is the last of my new core concept videos on Lev Shestov's early work All Things Are Possible, this one looking at what he has to say about another Russian author Anton Chekhov. I'd say at this point, I've covered all the key ideas found in the work!
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Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Jorge Luis Borges' short stories and essays, this one on the first portion of his story "The Immortal", narrating a quest to find the river granting immortality and the city where the immortals live
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Here's the third part of the transcript from my invited presentation to the Dionysius Circle, "Anselm on Divine Simplicity and the Trinity". Here we get to the Q&A, with clarifications of types of goodness, and some comparison of Anselm's views with others
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Tomorrow Noon Central, I'll be doing something different for session 100 of Worlds of Speculative Fiction. I'll be live-streaming, doing some presentation myself on the series, the genre, & worldbuilding and engaging in conversation with those in the chat
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Man, some can really commit to the bit
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Good open house shift at Almost Home tonight. Spent a considerable portion of it helping these two new boys settle in, doing my cat sweetening. Quiet energy, lots of gentle pets, talking to them softly, so that they relax and feel more comfortable in their new temporary home
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@thecranesbill Well, they also love to grift as well. Seeing some of that with people doing crap but slickly produced takes on Girard in the last few years
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@philosopher70 God that sounds nice. There’s something about intellectually fractured and desperate people and the need to cling to ideas in the grimmest fashion. Having something to prove, especially when you have no clarity about what it is, is never attractive.
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I remember back in grad school in the 1990s when we could just geek out and discuss Rene Girard's ideas without needing to totally buy into them or attempt some total repudiation. Because there weren't a lot of right-wing dorkbros who glommed on to him and misunderstood his works
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Good piece calling out wannabe cosplaying "Framing civilian defense work as “service” encourages a form of what might be called vibe patriotism. . . the language and rituals of service are being adopted most readily by founders, investors, and executives"
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Here's the videorecording of the most recent Classic Metal Class. We had Andrew Robinson on as a special guest to discuss grief (he's currently researching and writing his dissertation on the topic). Very far ranging and fruitful conversation!
youtu.be/WboNEWCW3rs
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That does seem to be true as a generalization
jj revanche@jonnoxrevanche
What chatgpt has revealed is that a surprising large number of people want to be “seen” as intelligent, profound or insightful. Many more people than you’d assume. But they profoundly resent intellectual work or reading or study or, say, literally anything you do to get smarter
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A gloomy day here out on the river. Hardly any wind, and other than the city noises it’s just the cries of the gulls flying around. On my way to the office. To teach my online class. Today we’re focusing on Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet and a few of his poems
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Here's the second portion of the transcript of an invited talk I gave some time back to the Dionysius Circle, "Anselm on Divine Simplicity and the Trinity". In this portion, we go deeper into Anselm's treatment of simplicity and connect it to the Trinity
gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/anselm-on-di…
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Here's the first of the new Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on some of Jorge Luis Borges' stories and essays I didn't get to earlier when I was producing a series on them. This one is about his very short and provocative story "Borges and I"
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