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Dr. Sadler's Philosophy Pop-Up - Philosophy and Anger

1,700 views · Published 7 April 2018 · 1:24:16 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy · 2018 · Education

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This is the first of our Philosophy pop-up sessions for April.  I decided to focus this month's discussion on what philosophical approaches have to contribute about anger.

2:36 Ancient Philosophy on anger
3:33 Plato on anger
8:14 Aristotle on anger
11:32 Stoics on anger
18:30 Early Christians on anger
22:30 Greg’s interest in anger
24:28 Is there a difference between intellectual anger and purely emotional anger?
26:30 Please tell me the way to learn philosophy, should I start with Ayn Rand?
28:00 Update on family life.
29:09 What do you think of Bataille?
29:38 Deleuze concerning stoicism?
30:51 Techniques of emotional mastery unique to self-help vs Philosophy? 
32:58 I’m learning a new language (like German) to read philosophy, should I just gain the vocabulary by jumping into the texts immediately or should I look for other resources?
35:01 What does Epictetus say about jealousy as related to anger?
36:17 Any mention about anger related to relationships? 
38:30 Is there any noticeable difference between how Aquinas views anger compared to Aristotle?
40:17 Do you think philosophers frame how emotions effect reason as if it is another person?
41:34 Do you have any favourite Buddhist thinkers?
42:10 Any general thoughts on political anger or dealing with political anger?
44:28 Do you think anger is closely related to our need to control external reality and then respond with it when we fail?
45:50 More on political anger.
46:26 Anger and Justice.
46:59 Is it wrong to simply start with the core books?
47:49 Talk a bit about philosophical therapy as a profession?
51:25 why do philosophical therapy when you can read philokalia?
51:45 What makes you not a Hegelian? How do you think the method of immanent critique is too simple?
52:35 Do you like Anthony Kenny's 4 vol. history of philo.?
53:20 how are emotions represented as a phenomenological interpretation?
54:18 Mentally and physically exhausted after hours and hours of thinking. Help!
55:15 What does Nietzsche mean by "décadence"?
56:15 Do you draw any links between Dostoevsky's and Kierkegaard's view of Faith?
58:30 Are there any positive uses for anger?
59:52 How do I stop myself from getting anxious while reading philosophy?
1:01:55 Isn't Anger a manifestation of the intuition of an injustice?
1:03:00 Were the Stoics against self-defence and war? were they pacifists? 
1:03:28 What do you think about the way we treat the animals we eat?
1:04:44 Should we try to not be angry at all?
1:05:03 Is there a difference between aggressiveness and anger? 
1:05:39 Do you know any philosophers who are angry in their writing?
1:06:10 How should we understand Aristotle's term "praotes" in terms of good amount of anger?
1:07:00 How do you keep your cool while driving?
1:07:31 What should we do in order to have Philosophy as a way of life? What exactly is Philosophy as a way of life?
1:08:22 How does the hypothetical absence of free will affect anger, should we be angry at all if it inevitable?
1:09:03 Where on the spectrum do you fall politically?
1:10:05 Difference between anger and rage. And some short ones.
1:11:53 Anger feels like it gives energy and strength to our self-defence and war against evil
1:12:24 Have you ever covered the Marquis de Sade in any of your videos?
1:13:05 Will Aristotle give paradigms of other emotions or do we need to look to other thinkers for other emotions and their consequences?
1:13:30 Can you say one practical way to influence my wife’s anger?
1:14:13 What languages do you know and do you have any tips for language learning?
1:14:35 Why don't you want to talk about Jordan Peterson?
1:14:49 What do you think about Kant?
1:15:41 What sources do you use to study Philosophy?
1:16:25 Do you think using anger/hate is a bad way to be motivated?
1:17:38 Is there any real substance to virtues?
1:18:32 Does the rage of Achilles come up in any philosophy?
1:19:29 All roads lead through Nietzsche to Heidegger. Thoughts ?
1:20:13 What do you think about feminism?
1:21:33 Is good and evil more important than calm or anger?
1:22:30 Any good philosophy topics to talk in bars?

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