Great stuff: philosophical insights from a professor who looks like he wrestles in the WWE between seminars!
@GregoryBSadler8 жыл бұрын
+Rentaghost okish Hahaha! You've outed me. I'm the masked professor
@rentaghostokish56288 жыл бұрын
+Gregory B. Sadler Haha, I knew it! Seriously though, a great video delivered in a refreshingly plainspoken manner - I can;t wait to work my way through all your other videos. Thanks for your efforts to bring philosophy to the masses!
@coffeexbae Жыл бұрын
True I was thinking the same thing that he explaining very well but he doesn't looks like someone who i would imagine to be a philosophy professor
@robertschut78967 жыл бұрын
Your teaching method here is exemplary. It appears that this is not your first time through this analysis. Your thorough understanding and ability to quote lines certainly enhanced your lesson as well as supported your analysis. I have been asked to study this play and do my own analysis of it. You have set the bar high. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us all. Please continue in your efforts.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
New (and rather overdue) video in the Existentialism sequence. . . this one on Sartre's seminal play, No Exit
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. I was very taken with Sartre myself in my early twenties!
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
View Master Glad you liked it. How did your talk go?
@mistycat17 жыл бұрын
Thanks for asking. It went great. We had about twelve people in the church book group. They all read it. They were bursting with comments. Your insights were well received. I gave more philosophical background than I expected. They surprised me by saying they thought the room as purgatory and thought that when Garcin stayed the room and protected Inez from Estelle that was the turning people. I relayed a joke told by Sartre. Which worked because the women in the group like the women in the joke were in there 50 & 60 and well educated. Sartre said, "The two women were talking when out of nowhere one of them comes out with an awful curse word." She said. "I don't know what got into me it must that awful existentialism that's going around."
@mistycat17 жыл бұрын
When I first read it the play it seemed depressing and confusing and now it seemed hopeful and like affirming.
@laurifinlandia2 жыл бұрын
fantastic analysis. i am in the midst of staging this very play, and your insights really helped to untangle a couple of knots and open new perspectives. i thank you!
@GregoryBSadler2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
@mpcc20227 жыл бұрын
Professor Sadler, when you said, " you can't change you can't grow." A vicious shiver struck me, and I viscerally felt, " whoa that really is hell."
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed
@keving66167 жыл бұрын
I wish I could site this.
@cvan10756 жыл бұрын
Your outline and description has fascinated me. This review process is what I do after watching plays. I had no idea that this was done by others. I thought I was maybe a bit crazy by becoming so immersed in thoughts provoked by plays. I have cancelled my TV satellite reception so I can occupy myself watching the rest of your videos. I started at your 2013 Philosophy Intro. Big Questions....Philosophy classification of questions/areas of inquiry. Wish me hope to develop my learning because I have some personal Big Questions of Life to think about. Thank you for all the work you have shared. You are very animated in your presentations and this is terrifically communicative.
@GregoryBSadler6 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. . . and you will be busy with those videos for quite a long time, I expect - there's over 1300 now!
@jamesroberts22826 жыл бұрын
Yeah, having studied the play I really appreciate what you have to say about it, it must be one heck of a pleasure to be in your class.
@GregoryBSadler6 жыл бұрын
Well, we do quite a few online events and I do offer classes online from time to time
@WestPicoBlvd Жыл бұрын
I know this is an older video, but new to me! We are going to discuss Sartre in my upcoming Boston Philosophy meetup group and this is my secondary source. You make everything crystal clear with plain language and humility. Thank you Gregory for the gifts you bestowed. God bless
@GregoryBSadler Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
@hehno19 жыл бұрын
very professional lecture . it's like listening to Sartre in person . Only he speaks in English . Many thanks . Merci beaucoup .
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
63 NOT OUT Hahaha! That's rather high praise. Bienvenue!
@lchmstsnflwrkfk9 жыл бұрын
hey, this video is amazing firstly. I am a philosophy student and am doing Philosophy of Literature this semester; this happened to be one of the pieces of literature we are studying. You made it so simple thanks.
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@laur-in69312 жыл бұрын
Our AP lit teacher suggested we read this play and I hope to use it on the exam today if the prompt works out. At first I was kinda annoyed with the play understanding some stuff shallowly but not a lot about the message but this lecture was very insightful. It actually made me really excited to look over the play again. That’s super cool stuff to be able to change the view of a stubborn teen LOL
@laur-in69312 жыл бұрын
Even if I don’t use it I’m glad I watched this video !!
@GregoryBSadler2 жыл бұрын
There's quite a few classic works that we can easily misjudge on the first time reading them. Good lesson to learn, I think - to go back and see what's there on a second read!
@julietigermoon95722 жыл бұрын
My favourite play
@EricMcDowellegm3 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis. Thank you!
@adventuresofjames58777 жыл бұрын
I am truly one of your biggest fans...thanks so much for sharing.
@Forceprincess10 жыл бұрын
I'm a new subscriber. I'm really looking forward to digging into these lectures! Thank you for posting these.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@jasperquinnzelblack34882 жыл бұрын
I'm a undergraduate Studying Psychology but your videos help me unwind i would be curious of your analysis on Ayn Rand I never understood why so many people hate her work
@GregoryBSadler2 жыл бұрын
You’ll find some Rand videos in the channel. People tend to hate her work because she’s such a bad reader of philosophy
@estebandelacruzg128110 жыл бұрын
Hi. I think you did a great explaining the play. But I think you forgot to explain some parts of the play that are very important. For example, when Garcin says "I got used to live among furniture." Or when he says "is what they tell us down there." Why there is a paper-knife? and why the objects in the room can not move? why every time they argue the place gets hotter? Any way, I like your videos.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy the videos. Perhaps you ought to make one about these parts of No Exit you consider vitally important
@Retrogamer712 жыл бұрын
7:25 These observation of the dead are pretty alien to a culture that doesn't keep the deceased around for long after they've departed.
@aMulliganStew7 жыл бұрын
Knowing "No Exit" only through a (well done in my opinion) early to mid 1960's cinematic short, I will now go read the script.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Well worth reading, I'd say
@keving66167 жыл бұрын
aMulliganStew Do you mean the BBC adaptation? If so, it was great. Far better than others on KZbin.
@tushar185 ай бұрын
Very well explained. Hits all the points I can understand and are useful. Do you have a book where you have elaborated on this video further on Sartre? Thanks
@GregoryBSadler5 ай бұрын
If I did, it would be very easy to find. Glad you enjoyed the video
@limitless16926 жыл бұрын
Great work Putting together this AWESOME video Thank You :)
@GregoryBSadler6 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@sly453210 жыл бұрын
You are the "Intellectual Dude" Thank you for making this :)
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@Cpenguiner1236 жыл бұрын
Excellent play, awesome analysis.
@GregoryBSadler6 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@lajphd7 жыл бұрын
Dr. Sadler, fantastic job. I'll be dropping you a line soon.
@FREAKBUS9 жыл бұрын
very helpful! well explained and very organized
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
***** Glad to read it
@charlesjohnson810610 жыл бұрын
Hope you will release your lecture on "The Plague" soon.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
That'll be sometime this Fall
@michaeladove726910 жыл бұрын
Are you saying that "Hell is other people" would only apply if you're stuck with people, like being stuck in a room in 'No Exit'? If one is not forced to be around others and can choose who to be around, or be by oneself and be contempt and not feel like one is missing anything, does "Hell is other people" still apply?
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
To answer your first question, No.
@michaeladove726910 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your reply! Your channel is my new favorite, I'm working on watching all your videos, this is all very interesting!
@Baphometrose10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@PhilippeRR19 жыл бұрын
Greetings dear Professor! Always happy to hear your courses and lectures. Very quickly, a French "Second Empire" Style drawing would roughly correspond to a Victorian Style drawing room should one look for an idiomatic sounding translation that would mean something to Anglo-American audiences...
@PhilippeRR19 жыл бұрын
Sorry... drawing ROOM! I always forget a word.
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
Philippe Renaud Yes, I suppose that would be roughly the same period. Thanks!
@iAmTheSquidThing10 жыл бұрын
This room has much nicer acoustics than the other one. It's easier to hear what you're saying.
@ForeverMary958 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks!
@GregoryBSadler8 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@ameliademarco548410 жыл бұрын
Dr. Sadler,....I need to do a philosophy essay on this book. I have to do a comparison between Sartre and 2 to 3 other philosophers. Can you give a helping hand with this?.........Thank you, sir
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
That sort of thing would be tutoring services. Right now, unfortunately, I'm not taking on any new clients.
@Ducks4President10 жыл бұрын
Great job -- thanks.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
What would humans do without essence, or if their existence is completely useless and absurd to their current situation? Would they have any essence per se?
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Those questions are basically non-starters. For one, Sartre doesn't say humans don't have any essence.
@rebeccasmith95369 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
To what extent does the assumption of existence preceding essence, essentially state that nurture completely overrides nature?
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Those distinctions don't map on to each other
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
Gregory B. Sadler existence preceding essence seems completely logical, but as we live in an imperfect world there are always exceptions. In this case how is essence effected in the case of someone who has suffered retrograde amnesia? The link between existence and essence becomes severely distorted.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
I think you need to spend a bit of time actually reading Sartre. Quite a few of the questions and objections you're bringing up would be addressed by an attentive, close reading
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
Gregory B. Sadler I'm sorry to have wasted your time.
@summersunlin1810 жыл бұрын
what do you think sartre would say to someone who had to make the decision of taking a family member off of life support?
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
He'd say they'd have to make the choice, and that any criteria that they used to make the choice were ultimately their choice as well -- so, not much help
@summersunlin1810 жыл бұрын
thats all the advice he would give them? no tips?
@summersunlin1810 жыл бұрын
and this is becasue he believes everybody must make their own choices and build their own ways of thinking?
@shakespearaamina91174 жыл бұрын
Lovely!
@GregoryBSadler4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@estebandelacruzg128110 жыл бұрын
I would like to see what you think of that?
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
Of what?
@ehsanjahan10219 жыл бұрын
very good
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@bornjuly21339 жыл бұрын
thxs, very helpful 4 my exam!! my theory, as a catholic believer, is that these three persons actually are not in hell, if we talk about plot-location, but in pre-hell, since in hell only are people who really want to go there (like IS-People), and since two died violently. Pre-hell would be a very close, strong and immediate Sensation of a really damned place, but still the Chance through very strong Mediation to get out of it... Another argument for that would be the absence of instruments of torture which probably exist in some kind of impersonal form in damnation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo and after my research, besides Sartre's biographic Background, the Interpretation of the three persons of social groups in a state is the most lucid one to me
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
Born July Well, I can't say I know much about any "pre-hell"idea, and I'm someone who works in the Catholic intellectual traditions. Glad the video has helpful for your exam!
@bornjuly21339 жыл бұрын
if you check the Limbo-definition, there you have the tradition and it's a very serious and also sad issue, e.g. for aborted humans (probably one of the worst huis clos situations one can imagine...)
@GregoryBSadler9 жыл бұрын
I know about the history of the theology of the limbo idea -- entirely optional, and ignored by most theologians, to be quite honest.
@bornjuly21339 жыл бұрын
:-) that's the point!
@estebandelacruzg128110 жыл бұрын
About the things I mentioned
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
I already responded
@nope662506 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your videos, they are amazing :) the Netflix show the good place is a cute Hollywood version of no exit I find amusing
@GregoryBSadler6 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
@Miss21Awesome6 жыл бұрын
How would the good place be sartrian?
@nope662506 жыл бұрын
Saadiya how is it not?
@Miss21Awesome6 жыл бұрын
1) it's heaven, 2) main character interacts with more than 3 people 3)everyone else belongs there but she doesn't, in huis clos they all belonged in hell
@monkeymeditator10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your videos! You make so many it's awesome! Just one suggestion. I think it would be better if you put a mic on you. That way we could hear you better.
@GregoryBSadler10 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy the videos
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
Your description of a drawing room as being "gauche" or "kitschy" is at the very least debatable.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
You can debate whatever you like, I suppose.
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
Gregory B. Sadler understanding the symbolic nature of the setting of the drawing room, being as it is used as an interpretation of hell, lends it a fundamental importance.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Well, you're certainly entitled to your interpretation. I think it's a pretty minor detail myself
@jamesroberts22827 жыл бұрын
Gregory B. Sadler the relative and surprising comfort of the drawing room as hell supports the final conclusion that hell is other people. Nothing whatsoever to do with environment. That at least is why I see the setting as having some relevance to the piece of work.
@GregoryBSadler7 жыл бұрын
Yep, some very limited relevance. Pretty much everything else discussed is more central. Again, if that's where you want to focus, good luck with it
@scasey19605 жыл бұрын
Is torture not a thing of today?
@GregoryBSadler5 жыл бұрын
Who claimed it wasn't?
@stanislawhrouste8 жыл бұрын
The lecture helped me to understand at least something (not much) in the play itself. But still it seems Sartre has little knowledge of hell. I guess a standard family, a wife, a husband and two kids may be a far better suited to serve as hell. I wonder whether Sartre was married or not. Perhaps not.
@GregoryBSadler8 жыл бұрын
+Stanislaw Hrouste That's easy enough information to acquire, I think
@stanislawhrouste8 жыл бұрын
I watched the play itself. I didn't like it. First, it is hard to believe. After all, a guy, a womaniser is shut in with two attractive ladies with beautiful hair styles and clothes and all are so unhappy. It seems highly artificial. Second, and more important, it is just boring. I highly appreciate philosophy, but a play is not a philosophical treatise and treatise and is supposed to be entertaining. Look at "Macbeth" or "Hamlet" - the plays are exiting and they stimulate all kind of thoughts too.
@GregoryBSadler8 жыл бұрын
Well, then not much conversation to be had, on this video or any others, at least not with me going forward. My time is in finite supply, and there's plenty of better conversations to spend it on.
@stanislawhrouste8 жыл бұрын
Of course you are not obliged to reply and I even don't expect you to do so. There is a saying "Whereof on cannot speak thereof one should be silent", or something like this. It seems Sartre tries to write a play about something that is impossible to state clearly, and the result is not completely brilliant. Perhaps such literature and playwriting are attempts to bypass the limitations of clear and simple language. I think "The Stranger" or "Nausea" are well written, this paly is not. Sorry for taking your time, the reply is not necessary, though of course I will appreciate it.
@selenedm9997 жыл бұрын
Sartre was in a long-term relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.
@elledoublar4 жыл бұрын
What's with the moaning in the background???
@GregoryBSadler4 жыл бұрын
What's with the weird, off-topic question about a video shot five years ago?
@rotpeter9148 Жыл бұрын
@@GregoryBSadler But the moaning Gregory. You have to tell us.
@GregoryBSadler Жыл бұрын
@@rotpeter9148 How would I possibly know, more than 1000 videos later, what a background noise in some video was?