Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯 I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎
"Intellectual jewel" is right on... Which philosophy book was my first? Plato, and I started with Apology. Why? Professor Sugrue's course on Plato in the mid 1990s. Then there's Pro. Solomon's s lecture on Anger from a Teaching Co./ Great Courses series where he describes one of his favorite books on philosophy... Alice in Wonderland. Especially the mouse's tail which ends with the line "I am judge and I am jury, said cunning old Fury." PS: It's because of this lecture that I read "Gulliver's Travels" back in the 90's. A children's book? Yeah, the same was Animal Farm is a children's book...
Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him. 10/10 without music 20/10 with epic music
I read Gulliver's Travels as a kid in the USSR. Naturally, I only had the vaguest feeling that some of the collisions and situations depicted were parodies of certain goings-on in European religion, science and politics of the time, but no more than that. It was just a hilarious romp with pretty clear moralistic underpinnings, couched (thankfully) in comedic and fantastical forms, rather than as a Sunday sermon.
Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well. Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British Satarist, Dean and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin. I love Jonathan Swifts books. The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy. "The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!
This is an excellent lecture, as are your others, Dr. Sugrue. I say that despite the difference in temperament between yourself and Swift which makes you find much of his satire somewhat off-putting. Like Swift, I have a rather dark sense of humor, and _A Modest Proposal_ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s rare for me to burst out laughing when I read something, even something that’s quite funny. But with _A Modest Proposal,_ I just couldn’t restrain myself.
I needed to pass some time & knew this would be interesting. It was. The only disappointment I have with this video series is that each video comes to an abrupt end before I am ready for it to end.
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Only true idealists (not necessarily the self-righteous, by the way) can ever become such cynical misanthropes--totally understandable and touchingly pathetic.
Listen..hans ate sinful and destructibe to each other in maby if the ways he prophetically describes..tbete is also pmenty of viryuw signsled in hos desire to tell the truth,in his defense if church and staye,in his son and wifes fidelity,in charctets luke the hoyng girl who protects him.Hevis hinesy and a teagic rimantic trying to cotrect a fallen world
“Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s travels is arguably the most savage thing ever written in the English language....”😂😂😂
Apparently the professor has never played games online ... just saying
As per usual, I kid myself that I'll take a sneak peek at the beginning and end up watching the whole thing. So good!
Isn't that the rule of thumb that we are facing a genius?
"Drown the world; I am not content with despising it!"
Unfathomably based.
Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯
I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎
"Intellectual jewel" is right on... Which philosophy book was my first? Plato, and I started with Apology. Why? Professor Sugrue's course on Plato in the mid 1990s. Then there's Pro. Solomon's s lecture on Anger from a Teaching Co./ Great Courses series where he describes one of his favorite books on philosophy... Alice in Wonderland. Especially the mouse's tail which ends with the line "I am judge and I am jury, said cunning old Fury." PS: It's because of this lecture that I read "Gulliver's Travels" back in the 90's. A children's book? Yeah, the same was Animal Farm is a children's book...
@@colleencupido5125 In one video Dr. Sugrue says "There is no children's book here." which made me smile thus I wanted to add.
Thomas Jefferson once said: "If you find an intellectual than ask what books he or she reads first."
Whoever is uploading these, thank you!!
These uploads make my day, thank you!
Always happy to see a new lecture!
Thank you, Prof Sugrue for this great lecture.
Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him.
10/10 without music
20/10 with epic music
Thank you for your kind words.
I really love this videos. You, sir, are a great teacher!
Lilliput 15:26
Brobdingnag 22:20
Laputa 28:54
Glubbdubdrib 38:17
Luggnagg 42:15
Houyhnhnms 44:30
Thank you for this index.
Keep it coming!
I read Gulliver's Travels as a kid in the USSR. Naturally, I only had the vaguest feeling that some of the collisions and situations depicted were parodies of certain goings-on in European religion, science and politics of the time, but no more than that. It was just a hilarious romp with pretty clear moralistic underpinnings, couched (thankfully) in comedic and fantastical forms, rather than as a Sunday sermon.
Beautifully presented.
Thank You!
Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well.
Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British Satarist, Dean and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin.
I love Jonathan Swifts books.
The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy.
"The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!
This is an excellent lecture, as are your others, Dr. Sugrue. I say that despite the difference in temperament between yourself and Swift which makes you find much of his satire somewhat off-putting. Like Swift, I have a rather dark sense of humor, and _A Modest Proposal_ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s rare for me to burst out laughing when I read something, even something that’s quite funny. But with _A Modest Proposal,_ I just couldn’t restrain myself.
Excellent. Thank you for sharing :)
Well I guess I’ll be reading Gulliber’s Travels again.
Thank you.
I needed to pass some time & knew this would be interesting. It was. The only disappointment I have with this video series is that each video comes to an abrupt end before I am ready for it to end.
We seem to be beyond satire now. We live in Lilliput.
No automatic subscription makes the video a bit difficult to understand. PS：big fan from China.
Same here in Brazil. I wonder why does that happens.
caption and transcript make understanding easily
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
The man was a genuis.
Could someone forward this video to Steven Pinker? Thanks!
Never read the whole book but My whole life was a lie assuming Gulliver's travels a children's book!
What? Your kidding right? Have you ever read anything by Hans Christian Anderson?
"Alice in Wonderland."
At the big end??? Where are these bastards!?
😂 19:22
Good old Jonathan would have either gone bananas in our world or created the Jon Swift Show and beaten George Carlin at ratings.
I'm a cat-person because cats have value. I'm not a people-person, I'm just a person.
Please tell me, how come this has been uploaded today but looks like it was taped in 1988 ?
The videos on this channel are from the lecture archives of Dr. Sugrue.
What, there was a world before the internet?
Swift wasn't harsh - the future he saw is.
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Imagine Swift in a COD lobby
he's gonna say it
One gets the feeling that Swift didn't have a real great grasp of history or historical figures, if he thinks our ancestors were more virtuous.
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Again Woody Allen is mentioned here :)
He's my personal favorite child molester. Top 3 fasure
Only true idealists (not necessarily the self-righteous, by the way) can ever become such cynical misanthropes--totally understandable and touchingly pathetic.
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No, no, no ... Literature IS the voice of truth and wisdom. Philosophy? Not so much....
Listen..hans ate sinful and destructibe to each other in maby if the ways he prophetically describes..tbete is also pmenty of viryuw signsled in hos desire to tell the truth,in his defense if church and staye,in his son and wifes fidelity,in charctets luke the hoyng girl who protects him.Hevis hinesy and a teagic rimantic trying to cotrect a fallen world