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Gregory B. Sadler

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As a speaker, author, educator, and consultant, I bring philosophy into practice, making complex classic philosophical ideas accessible for a wide audience of professionals, students, and life-long learners. People need frameworks, applications, and guidance to successfully incorporate those useful ideas into their own personal and professional lives, and I provide those with enthusiasm and competence. I also help people find and use philosophical resources to map out and make difficult decisions, understand and solve complex problems, and reorient their practice and projects into more positive directions.

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How was the process of acquiring PhD in Philosophy? Can you let us know how long it took for you and some tips?

Gregory B. Sadler For me - if you're including the time I spent on earning my Masters degree, it was 7 years.

2 years of coursework, taking our comprehensive exam, qual…moreFor me - if you're including the time I spent on earning my Masters degree, it was 7 years.

2 years of coursework, taking our comprehensive exam, qualifying with one of of my research languages (German), and writing a thesis.

Then 3 additional years of coursework, taking four preliminary examinations, qualifying with 2 additional research languages (French, Greek), and writing a dissertation.

I actually took quite a bit more coursework than I was required to - and not just in Philosophy, but other departments as well (English, Classics, Speech/Communication). I do tell graduate students not to rush their time in their graduate studies, and to take as many courses as they can - they're often eager to finish up - because it is probably the only opportunity they will have to spend so much time on study.

For me, graduate school was a really excellent time in my life. I had a lot of time to develop a solid foundation in the texts and thinkers I would later end up teaching, writing upon, or applying in practice.

I suppose the bit of advice that I'd give is to go beyond what your professors and fellow grad students think you should study, and to open your mind up to other thinkers. There's often a focus on the "trendy", which is all right as far as getting a job later, but leaves one with big gaps in one's education.(less)

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How do you feel about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker's Movement? I remember seeing an ambivalent comment of yours on Liberation Theology in the past.

Gregory B. Sadler Well, one can certainly be ambivalent about Liberation Theology without that having much to do with Day and the CWM, even though they can both be loca…moreWell, one can certainly be ambivalent about Liberation Theology without that having much to do with Day and the CWM, even though they can both be located on the "Left".

I will say this in general: my view is that the more that one thinks in terms of political/cultural left and right, the more one moves away from an authentically committed (and might I say, radically traditional) Christianity, which ought to be a scandal to most political associations or perspectives. And, it seems to me that the CWM tended to represent such a radical Christian commitment. I can't say that necessarily of all its members or other associated organizations - but when can you, after all?(less)

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“Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or not, in a complex dynamic of each other’s desires, recognition, power, and comparisons which not only relativizes moral distinctions and valuations, but makes them a constant and dangerous source of discord.”
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“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher”
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“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat”
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“The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”
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“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”
― Norman Mailer

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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