-
162Ancient Philosophical Resources For Understanding and Dealing With AngerPhilosophical Practice 18 (3): 3182-3192. 2023.Ancient philosophical schools developed and discussed perspectives and practices on the emotion of anger useful in contemporary philosophical practice with clients, groups, and organizations. This paper argues the case for incorporating these insights from four main philosophical schools (Platonist, Aristotelian, Epicurean, and Stoic) sets out eight practices drawn from these schools, and discusses how these insights can be used by philosophical practitioners with clients.
-
695Outlines of Jacques Lacan’s Ethics of SubjectivityIn Elvis Imafidon (ed.), The ethics of subjectivity: perspectives since the dawn of modernity, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 214-239. 2015.Jacques Lacan was constantly and consistently motivated by the aims of carrying out, improving, and critically understanding psychoanalytic practice and theory. In his work and teaching, he examined and (re)incorporated a number of key experiences, conceptions, and insights from moral life and moral theories into psychoanalysis. One particularly interesting aspect of Lacan’s work, particularly in terms of moral theory, is that while problematizing them, and reconceiving how we must understand t…Read more
-
85Report submitted by Gregory B. Sadler, Pilot Project Coordinator to Sonya Brown, WAC Activity Director, Fayetteville State University, June 28 2011. A Pilot program focused on improving student performance in carrying out Close Readings in humanities-based discipline courses was developed and implemented under the auspices of Writing Across the Curriculum and Title III at Fayetteville State University in Winter and Spring 2011. Five faculty were involved in the Pilot, myself as the coordinator,…Read more
-
116Reason, Affectivity, Holy Habits, and Christian PhilosophyIn Bryan Williams (ed.), Via Media Philosophy: Holiness Unto Truth (Intersections between Wesleyan and Roman Catholic Voices), Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 54-67. 2009.This book chapter represents one of the engagements between Catholic and Wesleyan philosophers at the 2008 Wesleyan Philosophy Society. The issue of what precisely "Wesleyan philosophy" would mean and comprise can be usefully illuminated by comparison with the positions and issues that were raised and discussed by Catholic scholars during the 1930s Christian philosophy debates in France, which included Etienne Gilson, Maurice Blondel, Jacques Maritain, and Gabriel Marcel. We also discuss how th…Read more
-
140Were Neanderthals Rational? A Stoic ApproachHumanities 7 (39). 2018.This paper adopts the philosophical approach of Stoicism as the basis for re-examining the cognitive and ethical relationship between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. Stoicism sets out a clear criterion for the special moral status of human beings, namely rationality. We explore to what extent Neanderthals were sufficiently rational to be considered “human”. Recent findings in the fields of palaeoanthropology and palaeogenetics show that Neanderthals possessed high-level cognitive abilities and produ…Read more
-
135Divine Justice, Mercy, and Intercession in Anselm's PrayersIn Eileen Sweeny & John Slotemaker (eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: New Readings of His Intellectual Methods, Brill. pp. 147-165. 2022.This paper examines the interrelation between justice and mercy in Anselm’s prayers. Divine justice and human injustice seem to rightly cut off a human being from any assistance, grace, or reformation, since human beings has set themselves in a condition of injustice from which they cannot extricate themselves. Mercy then seems the only solution, but appears not only unjust, but also to trump divine justice, a position inconsistent with Anselm’s explicit statements. So then, how are justice and …Read more
-
142English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 54
-
108Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 53 (translation) (edited book). 2002.English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 53
-
75English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 52
-
102English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 51
-
83English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 35
-
75English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 11
-
123English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 9
-
88Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 8 (translation) (edited book). 2002.English translation of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 8
-
17Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates in FranceCatholic University of America Press. 2011.Early in the 1930s, a number of French Catholic and secular philosophers debated the question of the meaning, even the very possibility, of Christian philosophy. Positions articulated during these debates provided intellectual background to debates about nature and grace, and the interaction of philosophy and theology that informed theological debate before and during the Second Vatican Council. These questions continue to be raised in theological debate today. This selection of previously untra…Read more
-
232Interpreting Anselm of Canterbury as a Virtue EthicistThe Saint Anselm Journal 14 (2): 97-116. 2019.What sort of moral theory should we view Saint Anselm of Canterbury as holding and using in his writings? In this paper, I argue that Anselm is best understood as a virtue ethicist. In the first part of the paper, I consider whether his approach could be understood in terms of deontological or natural law theories. In the second, I make a case for Anselm being a virtue ethicist. In the third part, I focus on this theme as found in treatises published during Anselm’s lifetime. In the fourth, I lo…Read more
-
219Is God's Justice Unmerciful in Anselm's Cur Deus Homo?The Saint Anselm Journal 11 (1): 1-13. 2015.Can God be entirely and supremely just and also entirely merciful, without these two characteristics ending up in contradiction with each other? Anselm of Canterbury considers this question in several places in his works and provides rational resolutions demonstrating the compatibility of divine justice and mercy. This paper considers Anselm's treatment of the problem in the Cur Deus Homo, noting distinctive features of his account, highlighting the seeming incompatibilities between mercy and ju…Read more
-
19Karyn Lai, Rick Benitez, and Hyun Jin Kim (eds.), Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Perspectives and Reverberations (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 19 (5): 551-553. 2022.
-
116Three Dialectical Relationships and the Necessity of Critique in Theodore Adorno's WorksMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 3 (1). 1999.This paper examines critical theorist Theodore Adorno's approach to dialectics and critique in his works Against Epistemology and Negative Dialectics. It considers three diads or polarities that Adorno considers to have been neglected by philosophy during Modernity: society and individual; subject and object; and entity and concept. Then it explores the necessity for philosophical critique, both of others and of oneself carried out through the equivocal concept of thought.
-
14Stoicism Today Selected Essays volume 3 (edited book)Independently published. 2021.Stoicism, a philosophy and set of practices developed in ancient times, commands ever-growing interest. Its present day, students, practitioners, teachers, and scholars adapt it to the challenges of modern life. This third volume brings together fifty pieces previously published in the Stoicism Today blog, ranging from personal essays to conference presentations, from bits of practical advice to history and interpretation, from polemics to symposia grappling with controversies, key issues, and c…Read more
-
94Reason as danger and remedy for the modern subject in Hobbes' LeviathanPhilosophy and Social Criticism 35 (9): 1099-1118. 2009.The article argues that Hobbes articulates a modern problematic of reason, where the shared rationality of human beings is an integral part of the danger they present to each other, and where reason suggests a solution, the social contract and the laws of nature, enforced and interpreted by absolute sovereign authority. This solution reflects a tension in modern reason itself, since it requires the alienation of self-determination of the rational human subject precisely to preserve the condition…Read more
-
9Aristotle's psychology, emotion's rationality, and cognition of being: A critical note on Ogren's positionMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 11 (1): 30-53. 2007.Ogren advances a hermeneutic interpretation of Aristotle that brings to light several important and overlooked points about Aristotle, emotion, and cognition. In my article, I argue that his interpretation is on certain points correct, particularly in stressing that the distinctively human, irrational, emotional and desiring part of the soul is rational to a certain extent, and through its own forms of cognition, revelatory of being. His interpretation errs, however, by construing the fully rati…Read more
-
1263Situating Lacan’s Mirror Stage in the Symbolic OrderJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 2 (5): 10-18. 2006.My paper was commissioned by Journal of Philosophy to provide a piece adequately explaining the significance of the Lacanian Mirror stage within Lacan's larger work. I focus on the transition from the mirror stage to the incorporation of the subject into the symbolic order. I argue that the mirror stage is transitional and that its significance lies in what of it is incorporated into and transformed within the more complex structures of the subject and the unconscious. Implicit in my claim is th…Read more
-
161Aneu Orexeōs Nous: Virtue, Passions, and the Rule of Law in Aristotelian PoliticsStudia Neoaristotelica 9 (2): 107-133. 2012.Passages in Aristotle’s Politics Book 3 are cited in discussions of the “rule of law”, most particularly sections in 1287a where the famous characterization of law as “mind without desire” occurs and in 1286a where Aristotle raises and explores the question whether it is better to be ruled by the best man or the best laws. My paper aims, by exegetically culling out Aristotle’s position in the Politics, Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric, to argue that his view on the rule of law and its relations t…Read more
-
74Mercy and Justice in St. Anselm’s ProslogionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1): 41-61. 2006.An important issue raised and resolved in St. Anselm’s Proslogion is the compatibility between justice and mercy as divine attributes. In this paper I argue (1) that Anselm’s discussion of divine justice and mercy is an exploration of God’s nature as quo maius cogitari non potest, and (2) that his discussion contributes to a better understanding of the complicated relationship between God and creatures—including the creatures attempting to know or argue about God. It seems at first that God’s me…Read more
-
186Anselm of Canterbury (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2006.
-
816A Personalist Aspect of Saint Anselm’s Platonist MetaphysicsQuaestiones Disputatae 2 (1-2): 146-164. 2011.My paper highlights one Personalist aspect of St. Anselm's Platonic perspective, namely the ontological priority and interpenetration of persons. The paper first discusses Anselm's metaphysical Platonism, then charts the Anselmian path towards God, through participation in the divine attributes. It then focuses on images of persons, and their degree of being. I argue that, at least for certain human relationships marked by strong love or friendship, Anselm regards the image of the person as medi…Read more
-
26Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Philosophy of ReligionJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 2 (4): 8-11. 2006.
Gregory Sadler
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
-
Milwaukee Institute of Art and DesignAdjunct Full Professor (Part-time)
Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
6 more
Areas of Interest
7 more