Rest in Peace Dr! I just encountered you in my life and now I can't believe your gone. Eternally grateful for your lectures and knowledge, it has transformed my understanding of everything for the better
Dr. Sugrue, the best of the best. I can't thank you enough for uploading these gold standard lectures, it means a lot to me and people like myself. Keep going and all the best!
He even has his son answer some questions in the comments. When asked if he "memorizes" his lectures, his response was to laugh and eloquently explain flow state. He's brilliant.
He was an amazing teacher - best I ever had - I took a one semester class on Victorian Literature from him - and vividly remember every single class. We read a book a week, everything from Origin of the Species to Jane Eyre, and every single person in the class showed up READY every single week. Our final class was supposed to be an exam, but the week before he said that clearly we all had demonstrated a command of the subject matter over the course of the semester and didn't need to be tested, so we should just read The Importance of Being Earnest instead.
Sugrue himself must be one of the greatest lecturers in the intellectual tradition. He cuts through academic jargon and elitist word salad and explains complex topics in a simple way (or if it cannot be explained simply, he guides you along the complex path so you can comprehend it). Not only that, but he presents ideas through an objective lens, and if he does have any judgements, saves them for the end of the lecture.
0:28 The Last 3,000 Years of Human Thought. Loving Wisdom, Passion for Knowledge. 1:18 Terminology Theory of Nature, Physics Theory of Ideas, Metaphysics 2:58 Ontology - On Being, Kinds of 4:24 Logic - On Truth, 5:02 Epistemology - Speech/Reasoning/What can I know about? How do I know I know? 6:47 Who is knowing? 8:03 Aesthetics, what is beautiful? 9:05 Ethics- Right & Wrong, Obligations, Appropriate Behaviors 10:15 Politics 12:01 The Past Thinkers lived in times we never have 13:20 What Is? 1. Nature, objects, matter, visible, material 14:49 2. Nature + Divine 16:23 Greek Metaphysics Plato’s Forms 18:15 Platonists & Christians agree on this 19:25 Bedrock 20:27 20:48 Ontology, Greco-Judea Braid 1. Athens 2. Jerusalem 22:09 Rationalism Athens Socrates - Inquiry 🧐 22:59 Discourse 23:58, 24:49 New Testament written in Greek Logos - Rational Discourse, Word 27:45 Mythos - More than a Story 26:16 Authoritative, Fundamental, Word Telling Moral Truth Indirectly, Ambiguously 29:13 The Perfect Athenian 30:18 Job - The True Believer 32:21 34:14 Faith While Under Burden 35:12 Prometheus - Titan, 🔥 Divine Rebel 36:47 Hubris, Pride, Defiant 39:31 Rationality, Emotion, Illumination, Psyche/Soul/Mind 40:19 Engagement can edify in unique ways Intellectual diet of examples 42:02 Open Mind, Hold Conviction & Attack It, Challenge your Knowledge “Steel Sharpens Steel.” 43:25 Do I believe this? What favors this belief? What does not?
Dr. Sugrue, I've been watching at least one lecture a day after work at my trade and it has given me such a pleasurable new perspective in how I see the world and my place in it. You've given me the language and context for some of the thoughts and questions I have and I'm able to express them to others and myself more coherently instead of fumbling for synonyms. I greatly admire how carefully you place your words and how much attention you put on giving the audience their best chance at interpreting the knowledge you have to give. I thank you for gifting us these videos.
42:03 *Dialectic of Athens and Jerusalem* “So what I would plead for here is first of all an _open mind._ A willingness not just to be edified by hearing a philosopher telling you what you already believe. What I’m asking you is to have the courage not just to hold the convictions that you do, but the courage to attack your convictions, to call your convictions into question. To ask yourself: _suppose I’m completely wrong, suppose the other set of assumptions or the other set of conclusions is the real one? How would I know? Am I really certain about what I think I know?_ If you do that seriously, if you sincerely apply yourself to the tradition of Athens and to the tradition of Jerusalem, I think you will maximize what a course of lectures in the history of Western philosophy can potentially offer you.”
Because of you professor Michael, I finally started to understand and like philosophy and its importance to understand thought processes and how to infer and deduce knowledge
To be fair, that's you with your own personality saying that, you are interested in the topic intrinsically, and this guy does not have to do with ANY classroom management. Put this guy in public school and he would either get eaten alive, or he would be just as strict as he needs to be and would thus be hated. Plenty of bitching and moaning about him simply talking without any visuals would be levelled against him.
It would be wonderful if someone could go through these and do complete playlists in sequential order. There is so much richness and depth to these flawless lectures!
amen, he is and I say "is" the best explainer with 1 exception (not better, but equally-good, though in Chemistry) of all the dozens I have had the privilege of hearing. May God reward him eternally.
I bet it would be great for development of kids. Even if a lot of it is too much, it's a good age to start asking yourself why you do something and what you think is right and wrong. I bet it'd inspire a lot of academic interest and good thinking.
@@joemcdermott1213 this is a level of self awareness that most people detest and would rather live in a miserable reality of justifying as a tyrant what is true and what is false…
This was an incredible introduction. I’m hoping to start my M.A. in Philosophy: History of Philosophy in Fall 2021. Prof Sugrue, you have inspired my intellect!
I have a Master’s in Philosophy from Boston College and Graduate credit in Philosophy from Harvard, and I find these lectures edifying and inspirational.
Put all the 63 lectures together,I want to swallow them like a SpongeBob, just know you have a student who met you halfway.thank you so much for this Free knowledge and all I need is bundles and my ears.
Comparing Dr. Sugrue to Peterson is an insult to Prof. Sugrue. Dr. Peterson is more akin to a propagandist who is quite intolerant of views that do not agree with his own, for example, his views on atheism.
@@Sunfried1 Well I wouldn't compare them either, though admittedly wasn't highly interested in the field of psychology. Relatively speaking I think Peterson is one of the only I saw that made it accessible and interesting. I disagree with him on a number of things but I'm quite sure he isn't a propagandist. I've also seen him debate before and he seems relatively open, even if he has strong opinions.. Things are getting extremely divisive. I'd hope if you think he's wrong on something you just take it as a difference of opinion. Honestly, if you want to change any minds, when you demonize opposition it makes people inclined to see them as bullied and side with them. Listening to a lot of the Greek lectures recently, I can't help but react with thinking of the contrast between someone insults and demonizes in arguments with the response characteristic of Socrates. All of his debates and the heatedness of opponents, but he moved others toward a path of reconciliation and improvement. Not only is it a matter of benevolence, it's also practical. It's unhealthy the way society turns people who might otherwise be respected friends into enemies if they disagree on somethings, rightly or wrongly.
@@joemcdermott1213Exactly my thoughts. I've been an admirer of Dr. Peterson for quite a few months now, and never ever I came to the conclusion that he's a propagandist. It's not that we never had intellectual differences, but simply because we don't agree with someone doesn't mean we can't find value in that. Plus the hate against him is just uncalled for. He has a good overall message for society, and demonizing him for his political biases doesn't do his intellectual experience justice. That said this is a wonderful lecture.
A true drinker from the depth of the Pierian! Thank you for sharing! What is so amazing is the effortless and yet nuanced way of his speech. His lectures have a nice balance of substance with context and it is called Mastery!
These lectures are providing me with such wisdom, I feel paralyzed with what to do with it. I want to tell all those I love to listen to this series, but I fear that so few would understand the awesome irony of the long arc of history we all find ourselves in. God bless TH-cam. I await the Philosopher King (Tyrant).
Dr. Sugrue's lectures are definitely the best - his presentation solid, his words remarkable - and greatly appreciated by this layman in particular. Thank you!
+ I watched these on VHS (guess the year) with rapt - dare say engrossed- attention, never forgot them, and later wondered why Teach. Co. didn't offer them in contemporary formats (CD or stream). Finding them here was like finding a long lost treasure! Deepest gratitude!! 🙏
Michael Sugrue, I hope your team can share with you that people like me on TH-cam are watching these lectures over and over. I operate a business in tech investing with some of the best minds, and your content can still run intellectual circles around the individuals I encounter. And they are top graduates from Harvard, Stanford, etc. Much gratitude.
I have the utmost respect for his intellectually and the ability to articulate such sophisticated words without the use of notes to refure off of. That exposes the true understanding and knowledge for what he is lecturing
Greetings from Australia 🦘 You were born to illuminate our minds, Michael. Thank you and your daughter for making these lectures accessible. It seems that the comments from other viewers, that there is a great hunger for knowledge and inspiration. Thank you Michael. UR a star.
I've watched most of your lectures (that have been uploaded.) I can't help but return to the beginning. Thank you, Michael, for making knowledge open to everybody willing to listen.
Rest in peace my Dear Professor, let these lectures be your legacy and food of wisdom for generations to come! 🕯🕯🕯PS. one of my goals was to make an interview with you, now it will have to be an intrinsic conversation as it used to be, you've made me internally rich, THANK YOU Dr. Sugrue!
Still waiting for the video but I have seen it before and I can tell you it is one of the best intros to Western philosophy ever. Actually the first in a series of nearly 60 lectures by distinguished teachers of philosophy from early 90s (I guess). Great series.
That exemplifies the sayings that there is nothing so hard to understand that simple language won't do, and that if you really know what you're talking about you will use simple language.
28:36 *Truth of myth* “These myths are not just rousing adventure stories-they mean to tell us some moral truth about the human condition or some truth about the human condition regarding the fact that there is no morality. But _either_ way you are being told something fundamental about the human condition in these myths, which is not to be despised and not to be disdained simply because it doesn’t appear in the form of mathematical equations. It still has something to say, but it says it in an indirect and perhaps ambiguous way.”
I am a friend of Gideon Rosen from our college days. I have a graduate degree in Classics. I am bed ridden with terminal cancer and spend part of each day with philosophy, history, science, etc. podcasts. I listened to your Great Course on the dialogues of Plaro. Seemed that you, like Plato, were not a huge fan of democracy. lol. Two favors: 1.) Can you say hi to Gid for me? 2.) Do you know what happened to Gabriel who wrote his dissertation on Spinoza under Dr. Rosen? He was a regular at a coffee shop my wife and I owned. I look forward to this course and the others on your channel. Thanks.
I'm not sure if I'm using this term correctly... but this man possesses what I suspect to be the essence of "teacher." This is the closest real world example to what I think of when I think of the teachers I had in school. You know what I mean?
A really good introduction. I cannot wait for the rest of these lectures in the Great Minds series. I learned about these early Greek philosophers in my psychology course and the history of psychological science is grounded in these ideas. Thankyou for allowing access to such knowledge by such a clear and articulate professor.
@@panagiotisatmatzidis9972 sorry but my course has a change last year. The unit is no longer available but you can purchase the textbook I used online. It is titled; Hergenhahn's An Introduction to the History of Psychology, written by Tracy B. Henley. A must read for the history and development of psychology.
This is great! I want to listen to as many of these as I have time to listen to! I’ve already listen to the one on Heidegger and the one on Foucault, but I think I need to listen to them again to get the full meaning. Maybe listen repeatedly. Very deep topics. Ones that I have gained familiarity with, but still do not totally understand.
Metaphysics - things outside of nature Ontology - speech about BEING Logic rules for deriving true inferences Epistemology - thinking about knowledge Aesthetics - theory of the beautiful Ethics - basically, morality Politics - how to organise society and dispense justice . Logos (rational discourse Gr. Or word of God Hbr.) and Mythos (archetypal stories with universal applicability)
Ontology 1. What is nature - materialists - world of space and time - presocractic and modern 2. Nature plus something else - 2 Worlds Positions 3. World of the Forms - pure ideas, thoughts
Is there anywhere I can find out the order in which these 63 lectures occurred so that I can watch them in order? I'm utterly fascinated and impressed, and I'd love to have a numbered list to work through. Anybody?
Anybody watched a current video of dr sugrue? You wouldn't recognize him. He's likely 150 lbs heavier and his voice has turned gravelly and raspy, likely the result of decades of smoking. I'm not knocking him. Not in the least. I adore this man's tutelage and have learned much from him.
Let's define "philosophy" as "the knowledge of friendship" rather than "the friend of knowledge"; then we raise a problem distinguishing "friend" from "love" as the concept "lover" differs like an object to the subject(s) of love for Plato. That problem in gender translates into the difference between even and odd numbers, which is analogous to the kinds of categories that Ontology considers in pursuit of Epistemological problems. So thinking becomes related to consciousness in theory as wisdom is related to knowledge in practice. There are four causes of knowledge in Nature, which resemble the meaning of life in both Philosophy and Mathematics as subject, not in Biology as a science. The foregoing is an etymological analysis of speech rather than an existential approach to philosophy. The noted Mathematician and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead writes in his metaphysics, Process and Reality, that the whole of philosophy is merely a footnote to Plato. 8:15 Aesthetics belongs among Logic, Metaphysics, and Morals as the subjects of Philosophy (according to Will Durant) so that the "feeling" in aesthetics may differ from its senses in speech as the concept arose from actual speech. Aesthetics as a topic is equally important between Physics and Metaphysics as the "object of thought" becomes a problem in modern Linguistics: what is it? Thus grammar joins rhetoric and dialectic as the Classical equivalent of "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" except as Arithmetic is a different subject from Proportion in Mathematics and the basis for Statistics and Harmony in theory. In contrast, dialectic is merely the set of propositions no one can dispute, so implicitly a technique toward method in the practice of instructing others starts without argument or inference. That history involves the difference between Pythagoras and Euclid historically, when dialectic resolved certain subject through definition, then proof; so the proven propositions express actual positions where the arguments follow beauty into feeling for aesthetics, not truly logic. Political Economy was a fairly individual science two hundred years ago, as Natural History and Natural Science fused historically into the modern difference between Physics and Metaphysics. That difference reflects a function of choice in Ethics, apart from the judgement of good or bad, decisions between right or wrong, or logical values contradicting aethetic theories in the one ontology. A more symbolic than historical approach to materialism might be Botticelli's Venus rising from the Ocean, which was commissioned by Lorenzo Medicis for pornographic reasons in his bedroom and done on canvas cheaply, not wood as the Four Graces showed over his bed. That feeling for Venus is a modern equivalent of pleasure's function for the early metaphysics of pre-Socratic materialists. She is best described at the start of the long poem "On the Nature of Things" by the Roman Lucretius, as the problem with matter reduces to no explanation for shapes. Similarly, the plurality of shapes for Socrates translates into a contradiction between pleasure and satisfaction among the judgments of good and bad taste in modern, which is the end of metaphysics commonly credited to Kant's philosophy in an enduring Platonic tradition, where the metaphysics of morals implies the subject who chooses as well as the objects chosen in a world less than the universe but more than oneself locally or existentially.
Such an articulate teacher!!! Does anyone have link to the lecture that followed this? These lectures here seem a bit scattered through different topics. Would really love to access the whole course History of western philosophy taught by him. can anyone help? cheeers
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Rest in Peace Dr! I just encountered you in my life and now I can't believe your gone. Eternally grateful for your lectures and knowledge, it has transformed my understanding of everything for the better
lol he's alive
@@rl1389 He passed away in January of this year.
RIP, Professor.
This series is the single biggest proof that TH-cam can also make good to humans. Thank you so much for this invaluable content!
the sophist
@@paulbenis1172Don't be so hard on yourself.
Dr. Sugrue, the best of the best. I can't thank you enough for uploading these gold standard lectures, it means a lot to me and people like myself. Keep going and all the best!
+1 👆🏼
th-cam.com/video/IXBwauVGIzI/w-d-xo.html
He even has his son answer some questions in the comments. When asked if he "memorizes" his lectures, his response was to laugh and eloquently explain flow state. He's brilliant.
@Cristhian Asallam Sanchez Ramirez I can't wait to watch that one!! And yes these lectures are f@#king A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!
I second you. I'm a philosophy teacher and I can't really explain how much I owe this man.
He was an amazing teacher - best I ever had - I took a one semester class on Victorian Literature from him - and vividly remember every single class. We read a book a week, everything from Origin of the Species to Jane Eyre, and every single person in the class showed up READY every single week. Our final class was supposed to be an exam, but the week before he said that clearly we all had demonstrated a command of the subject matter over the course of the semester and didn't need to be tested, so we should just read The Importance of Being Earnest instead.
Sugrue himself must be one of the greatest lecturers in the intellectual tradition. He cuts through academic jargon and elitist word salad and explains complex topics in a simple way (or if it cannot be explained simply, he guides you along the complex path so you can comprehend it).
Not only that, but he presents ideas through an objective lens, and if he does have any judgements, saves them for the end of the lecture.
0:28 The Last 3,000 Years of Human Thought. Loving Wisdom, Passion for Knowledge.
1:18 Terminology
Theory of Nature, Physics
Theory of Ideas, Metaphysics
2:58 Ontology - On Being, Kinds of
4:24 Logic - On Truth,
5:02 Epistemology - Speech/Reasoning/What can I know about? How do I know I know?
6:47 Who is knowing?
8:03 Aesthetics, what is beautiful?
9:05 Ethics- Right & Wrong, Obligations, Appropriate Behaviors
10:15 Politics
12:01 The Past Thinkers lived in times we never have
13:20 What Is?
1. Nature, objects, matter, visible, material
14:49 2. Nature + Divine
16:23 Greek Metaphysics
Plato’s Forms
18:15 Platonists & Christians agree on this 19:25 Bedrock 20:27
20:48 Ontology, Greco-Judea Braid
1. Athens 2. Jerusalem
22:09 Rationalism Athens
Socrates - Inquiry 🧐 22:59 Discourse
23:58, 24:49 New Testament written in Greek
Logos - Rational Discourse, Word
27:45 Mythos - More than a Story
26:16 Authoritative, Fundamental, Word
Telling Moral Truth
Indirectly, Ambiguously
29:13 The Perfect Athenian
30:18 Job - The True Believer 32:21
34:14 Faith While Under Burden
35:12 Prometheus - Titan, 🔥 Divine Rebel 36:47 Hubris, Pride, Defiant
39:31 Rationality, Emotion, Illumination, Psyche/Soul/Mind
40:19 Engagement can edify in unique ways
Intellectual diet of examples
42:02 Open Mind, Hold Conviction & Attack It, Challenge your Knowledge
“Steel Sharpens Steel.”
43:25 Do I believe this?
What favors this belief?
What does not?
You are great 👍
I just came across Prof Sugrue recently. Amazing content from an amazing thinker and teacher. So grateful it is available. RIP.
The amount of clarity woven throughout these lectures is astounding.
I just discovered Michael's lectures TODAY! And I'm now in my third one. Absolutely entertaining delivery with a transparency that is rare.
Professor Michael Sugrue will be remembered always.
🙏❤️
Dr. Sugrue, I've been watching at least one lecture a day after work at my trade and it has given me such a pleasurable new perspective in how I see the world and my place in it. You've given me the language and context for some of the thoughts and questions I have and I'm able to express them to others and myself more coherently instead of fumbling for synonyms. I greatly admire how carefully you place your words and how much attention you put on giving the audience their best chance at interpreting the knowledge you have to give. I thank you for gifting us these videos.
42:03 *Dialectic of Athens and Jerusalem* “So what I would plead for here is first of all an _open mind._ A willingness not just to be edified by hearing a philosopher telling you what you already believe. What I’m asking you is to have the courage not just to hold the convictions that you do, but the courage to attack your convictions, to call your convictions into question. To ask yourself: _suppose I’m completely wrong, suppose the other set of assumptions or the other set of conclusions is the real one? How would I know? Am I really certain about what I think I know?_
If you do that seriously, if you sincerely apply yourself to the tradition of Athens and to the tradition of Jerusalem, I think you will maximize what a course of lectures in the history of Western philosophy can potentially offer you.”
That sounds promising. Though I wish you would apply the same charitable reading when examining Foucault.
Sir, Excellent lecture.keep these lectures on you tube for the benefit of future generations.
13.9.23.India.
Because of you professor Michael, I finally started to understand and like philosophy and its importance to understand thought processes and how to infer and deduce knowledge
The type of professor you'd ditch class to go and listen to.
Would've stayed in school if I had professor like him lol. Love his Meditations lecture. Also, thank you Prof. Sugrue for uploading these.
The type of professor you'd ditch procrastinating to go listen to
@@Hasan-cq1sz literally haha
That’s what the f*%# I’m talking about! ❤
To be fair, that's you with your own personality saying that, you are interested in the topic intrinsically, and this guy does not have to do with ANY classroom management.
Put this guy in public school and he would either get eaten alive, or he would be just as strict as he needs to be and would thus be hated. Plenty of bitching and moaning about him simply talking without any visuals would be levelled against him.
It would be wonderful if someone could go through these and do complete playlists in sequential order. There is so much richness and depth to these flawless lectures!
Here you are my friend: th-cam.com/play/PLB5ShJRcpNFPz_2uazuT4XJ3yP3O4fH1H.html
@@NodakBro THANK U SO MUCH
@@NodakBro God blees you, some kind stranger on the internet
thank you
amen, he is and I say "is" the best explainer with 1 exception (not better, but equally-good, though in Chemistry) of all the dozens I have had the privilege of hearing. May God reward him eternally.
Every person on earth should be hearing these amazing lectures.
Unfortunately some peoples minds dont have the capacity to start the engine
@@lukedavis6711 most*****
I bet it would be great for development of kids. Even if a lot of it is too much, it's a good age to start asking yourself why you do something and what you think is right and wrong. I bet it'd inspire a lot of academic interest and good thinking.
@@joemcdermott1213 this is a level of self awareness that most people detest and would rather live in a miserable reality of justifying as a tyrant what is true and what is false…
Listening to these lectures on repeat, so I can pull as much of the wisdom from them as possible. Never gets old!!
This man has great stage presence that emanates honestly from his passion for the philosophy.
This was an incredible introduction. I’m hoping to start my M.A. in Philosophy: History of Philosophy in Fall 2021. Prof Sugrue, you have inspired my intellect!
Sorry to bug you but I'd like to know what you read for your bachelor's and what college you got admitted to
@@Kal-el95 Creepy stalker
I have a Master’s in Philosophy from Boston College and Graduate credit in Philosophy from Harvard, and I find these lectures edifying and inspirational.
What is amazing is the breadth and depth of Sugrue's knowledge and understanding of philosophy. He packs a lot in a fast delivery!
Put all the 63 lectures together,I want to swallow them like a SpongeBob, just know you have a student who met you halfway.thank you so much for this Free knowledge and all I need is bundles and my ears.
Honestly one of the best teachers on western philosophy. I'm so grateful this is free on youtube. Thank you Michael!
Comparing Dr. Sugrue to Peterson is an insult to Prof. Sugrue. Dr. Peterson is more akin to a propagandist who is quite intolerant of views that do not agree with his own, for example, his views on atheism.
@@Sunfried1 Well I wouldn't compare them either, though admittedly wasn't highly interested in the field of psychology. Relatively speaking I think Peterson is one of the only I saw that made it accessible and interesting. I disagree with him on a number of things but I'm quite sure he isn't a propagandist. I've also seen him debate before and he seems relatively open, even if he has strong opinions.. Things are getting extremely divisive. I'd hope if you think he's wrong on something you just take it as a difference of opinion. Honestly, if you want to change any minds, when you demonize opposition it makes people inclined to see them as bullied and side with them. Listening to a lot of the Greek lectures recently, I can't help but react with thinking of the contrast between someone insults and demonizes in arguments with the response characteristic of Socrates. All of his debates and the heatedness of opponents, but he moved others toward a path of reconciliation and improvement. Not only is it a matter of benevolence, it's also practical. It's unhealthy the way society turns people who might otherwise be respected friends into enemies if they disagree on somethings, rightly or wrongly.
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@@joemcdermott1213Exactly my thoughts. I've been an admirer of Dr. Peterson for quite a few months now, and never ever I came to the conclusion that he's a propagandist. It's not that we never had intellectual differences, but simply because we don't agree with someone doesn't mean we can't find value in that.
Plus the hate against him is just uncalled for. He has a good overall message for society, and demonizing him for his political biases doesn't do his intellectual experience justice.
That said this is a wonderful lecture.
Jordan Peterson is an excellent psychologist but a terrible philosopher, also it seems the comment that originally brought him up is gone
Thank you so much for not just creating this Chanel but being consistent with your content. May God bless you
There s no god. It does not exist. It is a lie.
A true drinker from the depth of the Pierian!
Thank you for sharing!
What is so amazing is the effortless and yet nuanced way of his speech. His lectures have a nice balance of substance with context and it is called Mastery!
These lectures are providing me with such wisdom, I feel paralyzed with what to do with it. I want to tell all those I love to listen to this series, but I fear that so few would understand the awesome irony of the long arc of history we all find ourselves in. God bless TH-cam. I await the Philosopher King (Tyrant).
Irony? Yeah, I don't understand your point. Explain the irony. If you will deign to condescend to one less brilliant than yourself.
Wow! People pay top dollar for these types of lectures!!
Awesome talk - no fancy stuff , no gizmos - just pure unadulterated simple delivery of knowledge
And like all simplifications, it’s useless. You learned nothing (=
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369define usefulness.
Dr. Sugrue's lectures are definitely the best - his presentation solid, his words remarkable - and greatly appreciated by this layman in particular. Thank you!
+ I watched these on VHS (guess the year) with rapt - dare say engrossed- attention, never forgot them, and later wondered why Teach. Co. didn't offer them in contemporary formats (CD or stream).
Finding them here was like finding a long lost treasure! Deepest gratitude!! 🙏
Michael Sugrue, I hope your team can share with you that people like me on TH-cam are watching these lectures over and over. I operate a business in tech investing with some of the best minds, and your content can still run intellectual circles around the individuals I encounter. And they are top graduates from Harvard, Stanford, etc. Much gratitude.
I have the utmost respect for his intellectually and the ability to articulate such sophisticated words without the use of notes to refure off of. That exposes the true understanding and knowledge for what he is lecturing
Greetings from Australia 🦘 You were born to illuminate our minds, Michael. Thank you and your daughter for making these lectures accessible. It seems that the comments from other viewers, that there is a great hunger for knowledge and inspiration. Thank you Michael. UR a star.
I've watched most of your lectures (that have been uploaded.) I can't help but return to the beginning. Thank you, Michael, for making knowledge open to everybody willing to listen.
Rest in peace my Dear Professor, let these lectures be your legacy and food of wisdom for generations to come! 🕯🕯🕯PS. one of my goals was to make an interview with you, now it will have to be an intrinsic conversation as it used to be, you've made me internally rich, THANK YOU Dr. Sugrue!
Still waiting for the video but I have seen it before and I can tell you it is one of the best intros to Western philosophy ever. Actually the first in a series of nearly 60 lectures by distinguished teachers of philosophy from early 90s (I guess). Great series.
Its only 30 lectures here on TH-cam. Where can I find rest of the 60 lectures?
th-cam.com/play/PLez3PPtnpncT3FVrZqrLGllGpOf4HXJFh.html Here you go
@@sirbernardwoolley7789 Thank you for this!
@@muneebpullani8539 You can only buy secondhand
@@thadtuiol1717 where can I find the rest of the lectures ??
I get wiser after every Michael Sugrue video
This is a beautifully rich, concise and vibrant lecture. I’m enthralled by the fact that this is the first in 60+.
Big fan of Prof Sugrue, first bought these lectures in 1992! Looking forward to release of the Gadamer lecture.
Where can I buy them
Miguel Vale Not sure they sell them anymore. You may have to ask for or find second hand copies to get them..
I'm also a big fan of His work. Professor Sugrue is up there with Thomas Sowell
where can i get the full lecture>?
1992? Get out of here!
Wow. A truly incredible professor.
Thank you for sharing these for free ❤
What surprises me is that all it says it's understandable and relateable. Not sure if it's just me but it speaks clearly to myself.
I’m so happy I found these lectures. I was so reluctant to listen yo Jordan Peterson
1. Aesthetics - Beautiful
2. Ethics - Right and Wrong
3: Politics - Level of Society
I'm so grateful you have shared these with everyone. I appreciate you. Thank you, Dr. Sugrue.
I love the way you keep the language simple, it makes these concepts so much more accessible, great work 👍
That exemplifies the sayings that there is nothing so hard to understand that simple language won't do, and that if you really know what you're talking about you will use simple language.
true in many instances but not exhaustive; it depends on your definition of “simple” language.
When im playing music and cooking I throw your lectures on my TV and put them on mute. It’s a nice aesthetic. Man as art
This is excellent! It takes courage to not only know to uphold your convictions but also challenge them.
I love these lectures!
28:36 *Truth of myth* “These myths are not just rousing adventure stories-they mean to tell us some moral truth about the human condition or some truth about the human condition regarding the fact that there is no morality. But _either_ way you are being told something fundamental about the human condition in these myths, which is not to be despised and not to be disdained simply because it doesn’t appear in the form of mathematical equations. It still has something to say, but it says it in an indirect and perhaps ambiguous way.”
We are so lucky to be learning from his lectures like this. May God bless him.
For some reason i feel very emotional when i watch these lectures. It’s like the human condition connects us all regardless of time and place
I am amazed and deeply appreciative of his clarity in the lecture. Thank you.
AS good as it gets!!!! Bravo Dr. Sugrue.
I am enthralled. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.
I am grateful to begin my second intake of these magnificent lectures, thank you once again for sharing with us
Thank you for this, Mr. Sugrue.
I am a friend of Gideon Rosen from our college days. I have a graduate degree in Classics. I am bed ridden with terminal cancer and spend part of each day with philosophy, history, science, etc. podcasts. I listened to your Great Course on the dialogues of Plaro. Seemed that you, like Plato, were not a huge fan of democracy. lol. Two favors: 1.) Can you say hi to Gid for me? 2.) Do you know what happened to Gabriel who wrote his dissertation on Spinoza under Dr. Rosen? He was a regular at a coffee shop my wife and I owned. I look forward to this course and the others on your channel. Thanks.
Sugrue and Staloff changed my life
Fantastic lecture. Let us not be deficient in any of our understandings in philosophy. Action is the true showing of our understanding.
Been depressed and this is nice to listen to. Makes the brain work while still being a nice distraction haha
This channel is criminally under-subscribed.
Thank you, Prof Sugrue. Just awesome 👏
Thank you for your work Professor. These videos have awoken a passion I thought had died within me.
Wow. The value of this is priceless
I'm not sure if I'm using this term correctly... but this man possesses what I suspect to be the essence of "teacher." This is the closest real world example to what I think of when I think of the teachers I had in school. You know what I mean?
i know what you mean.
A really good introduction. I cannot wait for the rest of these lectures in the Great Minds series.
I learned about these early Greek philosophers in my psychology course and the history of psychological science is grounded in these ideas.
Thankyou for allowing access to such knowledge by such a clear and articulate professor.
Can you share info on the pshychology course you took? Is it available online?
@@panagiotisatmatzidis9972 sorry but my course has a change last year.
The unit is no longer available but you can purchase the textbook I used online.
It is titled; Hergenhahn's An Introduction to the History of Psychology, written by Tracy B. Henley.
A must read for the history and development of psychology.
1. Metaphysic is beyond physic and nature
2. Religion faith is job
Grateful Master ❤
Just want to paying my respects to an amazing educator. RIP.
Thank you for uploading these videos.. They are great content.. I have been looking for lectures on these topics for a long time.. Much helpful.. :)
This guy is amazing! No notes, wow impressed. I'm rolling up my sleeves and getting ready to learn me some philosophy for sure.
A really refreshing material in these dark times of plain stupidity.
I'm learning a lot by watching your lectures. Thank you.
Knowledge with energy ❤
Dr. Sugrue, the best of the best.
You can tell he's found his great love n life.
My deepest thank you for your teaching professor
Thank you so much for these series!
Rest In Peace sir.
This is great! I want to listen to as many of these as I have time to listen to! I’ve already listen to the one on Heidegger and the one on Foucault, but I think I need to listen to them again to get the full meaning. Maybe listen repeatedly. Very deep topics. Ones that I have gained familiarity with, but still do not totally understand.
Metaphysics - things outside of nature
Ontology - speech about BEING
Logic rules for deriving true inferences
Epistemology - thinking about knowledge
Aesthetics - theory of the beautiful
Ethics - basically, morality
Politics - how to organise society and dispense justice
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Logos (rational discourse Gr. Or word of God Hbr.) and Mythos (archetypal stories with universal applicability)
What a great teacher!
Ontology
1. What is nature - materialists - world of space and time - presocractic and modern
2. Nature plus something else - 2 Worlds Positions
3. World of the Forms - pure ideas, thoughts
Is there anywhere I can find out the order in which these 63 lectures occurred so that I can watch them in order? I'm utterly fascinated and impressed, and I'd love to have a numbered list to work through. Anybody?
Thank you for that magnificent gift
Fantastic lecture as usual
I find these discussions inspiring, much like the conversations we've been having on my channel around similar topics.
I think im addicted to these lectures
I wouldn't hype our modern sophistication so much. Future generation will look back at us and make the same comparisons we do to the ancients.
It would be very helpful if you could number the lectures so we know what follows what. Thank you for sharing this great resource.
Anybody watched a current video of dr sugrue? You wouldn't recognize him. He's likely 150 lbs heavier and his voice has turned gravelly and raspy, likely the result of decades of smoking. I'm not knocking him. Not in the least. I adore this man's tutelage and have learned much from him.
Incredible series!
Let's define "philosophy" as "the knowledge of friendship" rather than "the friend of knowledge"; then we raise a problem distinguishing "friend" from "love" as the concept "lover" differs like an object to the subject(s) of love for Plato. That problem in gender translates into the difference between even and odd numbers, which is analogous to the kinds of categories that Ontology considers in pursuit of Epistemological problems.
So thinking becomes related to consciousness in theory as wisdom is related to knowledge in practice. There are four causes of knowledge in Nature, which resemble the meaning of life in both Philosophy and Mathematics as subject, not in Biology as a science.
The foregoing is an etymological analysis of speech rather than an existential approach to philosophy.
The noted Mathematician and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead writes in his metaphysics, Process and Reality, that the whole of philosophy is merely a footnote to Plato.
8:15 Aesthetics belongs among Logic, Metaphysics, and Morals as the subjects of Philosophy (according to Will Durant) so that the "feeling" in aesthetics may differ from its senses in speech as the concept arose from actual speech. Aesthetics as a topic is equally important between Physics and Metaphysics as the "object of thought" becomes a problem in modern Linguistics: what is it? Thus grammar joins rhetoric and dialectic as the Classical equivalent of "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" except as Arithmetic is a different subject from Proportion in Mathematics and the basis for Statistics and Harmony in theory. In contrast, dialectic is merely the set of propositions no one can dispute, so implicitly a technique toward method in the practice of instructing others starts without argument or inference. That history involves the difference between Pythagoras and Euclid historically, when dialectic resolved certain subject through definition, then proof; so the proven propositions express actual positions where the arguments follow beauty into feeling for aesthetics, not truly logic.
Political Economy was a fairly individual science two hundred years ago, as Natural History and Natural Science fused historically into the modern difference between Physics and Metaphysics. That difference reflects a function of choice in Ethics, apart from the judgement of good or bad, decisions between right or wrong, or logical values contradicting aethetic theories in the one ontology.
A more symbolic than historical approach to materialism might be Botticelli's Venus rising from the Ocean, which was commissioned by Lorenzo Medicis for pornographic reasons in his bedroom and done on canvas cheaply, not wood as the Four Graces showed over his bed. That feeling for Venus is a modern equivalent of pleasure's function for the early metaphysics of pre-Socratic materialists. She is best described at the start of the long poem "On the Nature of Things" by the Roman Lucretius, as the problem with matter reduces to no explanation for shapes. Similarly, the plurality of shapes for Socrates translates into a contradiction between pleasure and satisfaction among the judgments of good and bad taste in modern, which is the end of metaphysics commonly credited to Kant's philosophy in an enduring Platonic tradition, where the metaphysics of morals implies the subject who chooses as well as the objects chosen in a world less than the universe but more than oneself locally or existentially.
Sir, excellent lecture.keep these lectures in you tube forever for the future generation .today 13.9.23 India.
I have no words. Incredible ❤❤❤❤
This guy is awesome!
Such an articulate teacher!!! Does anyone have link to the lecture that followed this? These lectures here seem a bit scattered through different topics. Would really love to access the whole course History of western philosophy taught by him. can anyone help? cheeers
Ethics is formalized morality. Politics is ethics + scale. Modern politics is rhetoric + scale.
Were these lectures performed in conjuction with Rick Roderick's philosophy series? Looks like the same set he used.
Informative and most entertaining!