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

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?