Continuing with the Sadler's Lectures podcast series on Kafka's story The Metamorphosis, here's an episode on arguably the second most-important character in the story, Grete Samsa, Gregor's sister
It's that time of academic year again
"SETs do not measure teaching effectiveness, and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring, promotions, and merit increases encourages poor teaching and causes grade inflation" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817
The rot in techbro brains on full display here, in multiple manners. They're too cleverly stupid to even grasp how silly the stuff they say is, much of the time
@GregSadler Reveries of the Solitary Walker was my favorite book. I liked how he viewed education, nature and politics although some of his philosophical beliefs are a little out of date
An interesting reminder in the FB memories today. You see this sort of thing a lot in philosophy, people confusing teaching, discussing, or producing resources on a thinker as endorsement of them and their position. You also see people avoiding study of thinkers on that basis
@GregSadler I can take the same tack with Religious Studies scholars. The best ones are the ones that never give you any indication of their religiosity.
I've produced a new video identifying & discussing 10 commonly shared or reposted fake quotes of a famous philosopher. This time, they're quotes misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche
I've definitely turned a corner in healing up from my surgery last week. Pains at incisions are minimal. I'm looking forward to seeing what not feeling daily pain from my gallbladder that I dealt with for 6 months will be like. Went to bed early, slept in late. Having coffee and some kringle now, with a pretty packed week ahead.
I myself would never openly tell my students should get their copies of textbooks (for the few classes where I use textbooks instead of public domain texts) for free from online sites rather than shelling out scarce money to publishing houses who rip them off and make massive profits. . . But hypothetically, if they were to go to certain sites, they might just find what they're looking for. . .
@GregSadler Researchers and students shouldn't use anything like Sci-Hub either to access millions of research articles paywalled by commercial publishers with 30–40% profit margins due to the fact they don't pay the authors even though the actual research is funded by taxpayers.
In the coming months, I'll be adding new videos to this playlist providing guidance for self-directed study in philosophy. I'll be doing videos specifically on Aquinas, Augustine, Hobbes, and Locke. But I'm going to produce some more general videos as well https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgFVZpisYc8GTl7rxuyRtwm
In Republic book 10, Plato examines how poetry, or as we'd call it today, media more generally, affects the different parts of the human soul. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode looking at that discussion!