Philosophy Pop-Up with Dr. Sadler - August 2017 - Topic: Martin Heidegger

This is the video from our very first Philosophy Pop-Up on YouTube Live. We had a great conversation ranging over all sorts of topics in philosophy. Some of the discussion centered around Martin Heidegger's works and thought, but a good bit focused on other philosophers and topics.

We will be doing one of these on YouTube Live and one on Facebook Live each month. Patreon supporters get the schedule in advance, and the rest of my viewers and subscribers find out about the Popups through my social media the day of the online event.

[CC_Timbral]

Watching the recording. Great idea - more please.

[Retrogamer]

Nice to hang out with you if retrospectively by recording.

[estebandelacruzg]

Dr. Sadler. I think Heidegger is the greatest philosopher. Thanks for your videos.

[chrismireider]

I enjoy watching your videos Dr.  Sadler!  Please keep up the great work!  I would like to mention a couple philosophers that I think are underrated and would make for rewarding reading, particularly for those who are interested in Kant, German Idealism,  and German Philosophy in general (e.g. those who follow the Half Hour Hegel videos).  The first is Friedrich Schiller.  More known for being a dramatist and historian, he was also an important contributor to the rich conversation that followed the advent of the critical philosophy.  I am currently reading his On the Aesthetic Education of Man and find the text rich with ideas that may very well have strongly influenced Hegel as well as the German Romantics.  The second philosopher is Schelling.  Long standing in the shadow of his more famous friend and former collaborator Hegel, Schelling is getting more play these days, but he is still mostly an unknown, and if known, considered of interest merely as a transitional figure from Fichte to Hegel.  He is worth reading for himself if only because his daring imagination stimulates one's own imagination in ways reminiscent to me of the dialogues of Plato.  His Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Freedom is a good text to delve into.

[mojrunia]

Thank you for youe job dr Sadler. I have already found you on YT. You are talking about Lev Shestov - have you read Berdyaev books? I think Berdyaev's philosophy is much wider and complex than Shestov's view. What do you think? Are you going to record video about Berdyaev? I have not found any vidoes about him on your channel.

Regards

[jeffsullivan]

Would really like to thank you for getting me into Cicero, I've come to think of him as one of my all time favorite thinkers to read and reread through your work (The Tusculan Disputations and On Duties especially)

Probably better to wait for the next one, but I'm curious where you think Heidegger is wrong.

[squatch]

Could you possibly do a video on understanding philosophical terms and concepts such as analytic/synthetic, deontological, disjunctive, substantive, nativism, etc. Thanks!

[divinuminfernum]

nice talk - the discussion on heidegger is interesting, as i am just exploring his work more now - there is alot to be sure! - also there is a youtube vid, a portion of a documentary on heidegger "on a god can save us" - it begins with a prophetic quote from Heinrich Heine - are you familiar with Heine? in any case, check out the quote from the 1830s from his writings on religion and philosophy in Germany:

"
Do not become anxious, you German republicans: the German revolution
will not take place any more pleasantly and gently for having been
preceded by the Kantian critique, Fichtean transcendental idealism, or
even natural philosophy. Through these theories revolutionary forces
have built up which only await the day on which they may break loose,
filling the world with horror and awe. Kantians will appear who want
nothing to do with mercy even in the phenomenal world; they will plough
up without pity the very soil of our European life with sword and axe,
in order to eradicate every last root of the past.... Armed Fichteans
will arise, whose fanaticism of will can be restrained neither through
fear nor through self-interest.... More terrible than all will be the
natural philosophers, who will participate actively in any German
revolution, identifying themselves with the very work of destruction. If
the hand of the Kantian strikes swift and sure because his heart is
not moved by any traditional reverence; if the F ichtean courageously
defies all danger because for him it does not exist at all in reality;
so the natural philosopher will be terrible, for he had allied himself
to the primal forces of nature. He can conjure up the demonic powers of
ancient German pantheism and that lust for battle that we find among
the ancient Germans will flame within him. "

[ronaldovalete]

Dr. Sadler, could you say something about John Deely and his connection with Mortimer Adler, Jacques Maritain and the Neothomistic movement? I appreciate your work very much!

From Brazil.

[Second]

Nice to listen more casual videos from you!

I've listened alot Prof. Peterson. For him pronoun-issue is not the main thing, but that someone has to start to put their foot on ground and start to raise some concerns with ongoing progressive developments.

As for postmodernism, he has started to use term neo-marxism along with postmordenism to separate a subgroup who are not philosophically inclined but politically: Whatever postmodernism has to offer gets used to serve as political agenda, but once they gain upper hand they drop postmodernism. Sort of replacing existentialism, which i see as a last jump-point into postmodernism, with marxism/herdism: replacing individual with herd. That is at least my take on this issue.

He also has lessened his attacks at Derrida or Foucault, whom both at times seemed to be the Satan himself for Peterson.

So in past couple months he has really toned down and refined his points, as people started to raise points against his opinions. I would have wished he would have studied things bit more before going full amok against Derrida or postmodernism in general, but at least he has corrected his approach later on.

[SteveFullick]

Personally, I have found that secondary literature allows me to cover a lot more ground than primary texts. If you get to a topic that you find particularly interesting, then you can focus in on the original writing for a while, but a lot of the advantage to that is essentially nostalgic, since all it really accomplishes is to provide you with access to the mind of the author and his thought process as it gave birth to a given insight. Yet the secondary writers are often better at explaining that insight and its implications than the innovator who was struggling to give voice to it.
I particularly like the Cambridge Companion series:

[dtkksvv]

Can you talk about how you organize your lectures? It's very impressive to see you walk through the text without outside notes.

[suddenuprising]

Could you do a video on Heidegger's interpretation of Plato's cave please?