My favorite part of philosphy is everyone can participate. Im a very poor man and cannot afford school but having a cell phone allows me to watch lectures. Thanks for uploading these.
@@swaminathan_r1 how is your response helpful to a person who can only access knowledge by chance. Anyone who seeks knowledge comes out better than that who",s been forced that way by their wealthy guardins. When one is thirsty of knowledge even a phone is enough further more its not a race.
@@buckocrooks historically information such as this was sequestered in University's, available exclusively to an elite minority of the population. I suppose that was my point.
@@bigdougbarkz Those of us who are here intellectually challenging ourselves to not only understand the theories and works of the greatest thinkers of human history but also attempt to progress their thought through our own dialectical, academic, or other methods, can simply sleep at night knowing that we contributed to the transcendence of our collective understanding (hopefully some progressive action to protect the planet follows as well). That is the only verification or affirmation that one should ever need and it comes from within. However, I agree, those of who do this are "extra"ordinary. :) But that rests on the condition that we are actively participating in an open dialogue to simultaneously share what we understand as well as broaden our own horizons.
As part of my personal growth I came to realise, I’m not nearly as intelligent as I thought I was. So lectures like these truly baffle and amaze me to see how well thought and deep some people philosophise and are able to share it in a way that others can understand it without having to go through that rabbit hole of thought. Thank you for sharing this lecture!
You've just about summed up my experiences - as each day passes, I realize I'm less intelligent than I ever thought I was. It's humbling, slightly depressing, and yet exciting, because I realize how much more there is to learn and that consequently I'll never get bored!
Absolutely. I found Dr. Sugure's lecture on Marcus Aurelius some time ago, but while I admired the Stoic ideal it didn't quite resonate so I let it drop. Now I've come looking for answers and am just now really feeling and realizing (as opposed to intellectually knowing) that virtually every major quest for understanding by the greatest minds of all time are here at my fingertips. More than enough for one lifetime.
This comment surprisingly encapsulates what heidegger meant with cosmic guilt. You have a horizon in your future and you will not learn everything that you have the potential to, and that leaves you with guilt and an obligation to yourself to be the best person you can be!
@@dylandavis4753 I noticed the guilt a lot in last few months. I know i have the potential to become a doctor for example. I live in a country where this would be possible without having to pay for the education. I have the urge to do something with my life that also benefits others, helps others and therefor gives me meaning. And yet, here i am, not living up to that potential for various reasons. The largest being "lazy" (no thrive, no energy, resisting commitment and the willigness to learn). And everyday, i feel that guilt and i cant seem to overcome it but im working on it in therapy. But very interesting, thank you for your comment
• (Time Stamps) 3:55 - Ontology 5:35 - Heidegger’s issue with Ontology 6:31 - Plato’s view of being and our local understanding of it contrasted with our lack of understanding of it as a whole 7:52 - Heidegger’s approach to understanding “being” 8:45 - What it’s like to be Human 10:06 - What it is to be a Human Being 14:10 - Heidegger’s View of Being • (Interesting Assertions) 10:51- Man ought to Authentically “Be” 11:58 - To be a Human Being is to contextualize the world and attribute meaning to it 13:33 - I’m calling you back to yourselves 13:45 - “Being” not “being” has a strong homology to God 14:15 - Gospel story of the rich young man
Came across these while finding out that Dr Sugrue just recently passed, thank you for making these materials accessible for general public, rest in peace
Back in college, I worked hard to study these. Now, I listen to your lectures to relax and focus. Your lectures help me get away from being distracted by distraction. Thank you!
I discovered Professor Sugrue from this video. He has helped my understanding so much over the last few years. I am so dissapointed to learn of his passing. But what an incredible intellectual legacy this man has left behind. I sure do appreciate him and his contributions.
I discovered dr Sugrue's videos after his passing aswell, .. Its remarkable the quality of his lectures, and explanations are so unique! Dr. Sugrue had also a substack site and theres also a podcast ,by him and his daughter ,I believe..❤
Class act. Michael Sugrue is exemplary of what is best in the academic tradition-incisive criticism coupled with light heartened self knowledge. Brilliant lecture.
This lesson is so comprehensible even for someone who's not a English speaker like me. And the conclusion of Heidegger is intriguing. One must be really lucky to be your student.
Studying Heidegger with the great Dr Joseph P. Fell was a spectacular highlight of my college career. It was completely mind-blowing. The excitement in the room was unforgettable. The validity of Heidegger's work was confirmed for me by the fact that he ultimately started to think in a way entirely compatible with the teachings of Buddha, the ultimate thinker. Both investigated the meaning of human life, and how to live, as deeply as they possibly could. "Do not let the little Beings of the world distract you from the big Being." Well put, Dr Sugrue.
“Empty” is not to be deplored according to the Buddha and Heidegger. According to the former it would be nirvana and to the latter it would be an openness towards Being. But of course, if one is in the business of philosophy for the purpose of obtaining a set of propositions and doctrines this would hardly strike one as very impressive.
But which Buddhist tradition are you following? Saying "Buddha did this" in the context of Buddhist history is about as deep as saying "Jesus did this" except much less because you're talking about a 2500+ old figure with hundreds of various philosophical traditions here. Which buddha? The teravadin buddha? Nagarjunian Buddha?
@@tonyrandall3146 Alan Watts was the reason I left spirituality and all those useless stuff. He himself died a depressed drunk man, whats the point of following a philosophy where the philosopher himself is not free?
Very happy to see these on TH-cam and hopefully will find a wide audience. Your Plato lectures (which I bought more than a decade ago from TGC) changed my life: I started to learn Ancient Greek and started to read Plato seriously. THANK YOU for your brilliant light and guidance!
Great lecturer. Been a long time ago I read Being and Time. When I was at university my former German professor said that reading Heidegger almost had to be done in Deutsch - his wordplays are legendary and beautiful (in Deutsch) and in many ways the power and beauty of his prose are lost in any translation. I couldn't agree more on the mystic and exhausting wordplay of the work and I remember almost skimming the second part of Being and Time as it is so incomprehensible, you loose the motivation to finish it. The more you understand of his thinking, the harder it seems to get and I do think it is only the 1 part that is worth reading. I remember my teacher at the time also saying that his teacher and later colleague Husserl work was of more importance, but I have never read him. The biggest problem with Heidegger was and is his biography and I couldn't agree more on Michael Sugrues sentiment on it - a work that so strongly, and often brilliantly urges you to follow him, for sure makes you hesitant considering just what Heidegger did to Husserl and his deep admiration of the nazi party. The real nasty part the work is that of ´das man´ and it is clear that much of his thought on man was in line with the extreme right wing politics of the nazi party. If I remember the course correct, Heidegger was apparently very unsure of himself, and he wrote most of his work on the countryside in a shed where he assumed the full on character of a farmer... I could be wrong about this, but I'm quite sure of it - people describing meeting one of the biggest philosophers in our time with the clothing, mannerisms and accent of a potato farmer... Heiddegers strength was surprisingly in teaching, and his lectures were often completely overcrowded and people were often sitting outside listening through open windows. He was apparently a great pedagogue and lecturer. So was this by Michael Sugrue. Excellence.
Thank you very much for sharing these lessons. Currently a student, it would amaze me like never before if my teachers had as much inspiration and passion put in their lessons. Witnessing thinking is the most enriching experience one can have.
man.. after reading many books about existentialism, listening to dr. sugrue is one of the greatest joys.. because he distills these wholesome of fuzzy& blurred information with his wisdom so well that you become able to connect the dots in your mind.. thanks a lot !
All 50 lectures from the great minds of the western intellectual tradition were on TH-cam at one point, removed for copy right violation. It's so great to see Michael Sugrue back on TH-cam. I hope Darren Staloff uploads his lectures. I remember watching a great lecture he gave on Spinoza and freedom.
Michael, you are simply wonderful. I am in Calicut, Southern tip of India. In fact , I was in US from June 19 to September 19, 2019. I had visited Princeton Uni. My mother used often mention Princeton, since it was the institution which gave refuge and job to Einstein, when he escaped Nazi Germany. Einstein visited India in about 1937, on an invitation of CV.Raman, fame Raman effect. My mother was a student at American college, Madurai. and her chemistry professor took their batch to Madras to attend a public meeting held at Madras university. Michael's presentation is simple, shorn off jargon and quite understandable, and ipso facto superb. Hat's off to you, Sir. Advocate Victor Antony Noone.
0:29 Influential, Verbal Tricks, Ambitious 5:04 How do you study Being? Introspection, Looking Within 6:41 Plato - Being is like Light small beings are objects we see, colors we experience "Is" 8:58 Dazine - What it is like to be Human Being Finite, Contingent, Anxious, Worrisome, Guilty We are stuck within the Intercosom Authenticity - Be What You Are Being - A Context, An Order 12:25 A Governed Realm 12:52 Language, Discourse, Speech, (Formalized Ideas) 13:36 NO More Distractions 0 don't be distracted by distraction from distraction 14:10 The Rich Young Man Sell all you have and follow me Follow authenticity 15:10 You BECOME A Being, You Earn It Stop Ignoring What You Be *Being* 16:25 Facticity -I was THROWN INTO THE WORLD Without my permission, DEAL WITH IT 17:22 We are deprived 19:03 Confront The World, Confront Life, As it really is, Face Reality, Face Fact 20:30 Cultivate Being, Cultivate Yourself 22:23 See Reality, Know Reality, Face Reality Be Human 23:18 Confront Death, Recognize Conscious, Follow Authenticity 26:46 Authenticity _"We confront obligations to ourselves we can never meet."_ 27:48 Being concerns it's continuance, this creates Fright, Angst, Guilt - The uncomfort we didn't become what we could have been 29:50 We will not do all, you have to choose what you will do _You owe yourself a debt you can never repay_ 30:57 You Must Ask Questions You Cannot Answer Obscurity piled on Obscurity with Authentic Honesty 31:58 It's not what you do, it's how you do it. 33:32 History of Human Beings Oriented Toward The End 34:25 Thinking about NOTHING Confront Being As It Really Is 35:20 Philosophy can only be done in German 36:18 37:00 Analyzing Pre-Socratics Wood Trails --> Caul De Sac 39:35 Can you say something about nothing? Man does not feel heimly/homely in the world Play on Words, Puns 41:33 Morality, Mysticism Nihilism - _Speech indistinguishable from Silence_ Solipsism - Working from the inside out Dread, Death Reductionism 44:39 Being - Silence of God
I watched this while removing a rotten plumbing stack in an ancient tenement and found that despite the sheer horrors of the work itself my mind was crackling with thought and reflection. What an age we live in that one can learn 24/7 with the entirety of the human experience in their pocket at all times.
Life changing access to this brilliance and commitment. So completely absorbing !! The language for starters. Intellectually intimidating but all the more inspiring !!
Currently studying by my own being and time, and this was good reminder to me, just in time. To think, is to think, I think. Dr. Sugrue, u were an incredibly individual. Yes, and Becker was very big influence for me. Oh man, where does this leaves me with my little intellectual journey. To Be or not to be.
“We have an obligation to ourselves to become what we can.“ Amazing lecture on a very slippery subject. “Imagine trying to bite your own teeth.“ 🧐 Evolution seems to be pushing us towards distraction, but this obligation, in the end, is the greatest gift to ourselves as well as evolution itself.
I really enjoyed this for a number of reasons. I'm a fan of Dr. Michael Sugrue's lectures, not only because they are pregnant with richness and character, but also because when he criticizes an idea or thinker, it always has an undertone of biting humor. I hadn't noticed at first my smiling as he rounded out his polemic on Being And Time and Heidegger in general, things which I thought to myself when delving into Heidegger but that I chocked up to my own misunderstanding of a complex philosophy.
I'm the son of a poor cobbler who was raised in the streets of Alligator Town, Mississippi. I never received an education, and I started my cobbler apprenticeship when I was seven years old after my father died of measles. These videos have been a blessing and an absolute gift; since discovering them I have been granted a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship scholarship at Harvard and have achieved levels of enlightenment of which my family has never dared to dream. Cogito, ergo sum. Carthago delenda est.
I got u beat. I started to work at the age of 6 when my whole family died from tuberculosis combined with consumption and I just had to run the family business of a small shoe-shining stand near a ghetto. Luckily I survived and have since then I been accepted into Cambridge on several grants made only for homeless former working children or the HFWC award from the I.LIE Fellowship Scholarship. I am now living the life just like you, however I think therefore I fool others.
i feel happy and blessed that till now , 100,000 people are interested in this , it deserves more i know but at least people are still interested in such matters
but unfortunately he totally misinterprets Heidegger and got stuck in his own confusion and cartesian worldview. To make it worse, he was pretty confident he was right
This is a very bad entry point to Heidegger. I'd be reluctant to even call it an entry point, seeing that he engages very poorly with Heidegger's philosophy and concepts.
@@fablekey There's a lecture on Philosophy Overdose called "Heidegger, Being & Ontotheology (Mary-Jane Rubenstein)" that I quite enjoyed. I think it does presuppose some basic understanding of Heideggerian philosophy, so it's not really an entry point. I don't think it's easy to give a good introduction to Heidegger, but some of these online mediums are too eager to squeeze too much Heidegger into too little time. This lecture by Michael Sugrue for example takes on A LOT of central themes of Being & Time in 45 minutes. By comparison I'd receive 2 hour lectures on the first 20-30 pages of the book at my university.
* Dr. Sugrue opens a jar of peanut butter * This jar of peanut butter is probably one of the most influential, important jars of peanut butter in perhaps the past decade; maybe even the last century.
"Before Carver, peanuts were limited to crunchy snacks.... this Jar was mere peanuts until it chose total commitment and threw itself into a grinder; complete deconstruction of individual peanuts into a greater collective whole. Yummy."
LOVE having the old Great Minds lectures from the Teaching Company, again! This series went through several incarnations, with this one disappearing with the VHS/cassette tapes (I don' think it ever made it to DVD) When my local library phased out VHS tapes, I thought I'd never see them again! I do have the latest version, which is great, but I just loved Sugrue and these old timey ones. There's something about the analog recording, the simple sets and the longer lectures that brings me back to when I worked a menial job, unable to attend school, but wanting to learn as much as I could. I made it to college eventually and double-majored in philosophy, and these lectures paved the way for me. My professors were always impressed that I had knowledge and insight on the class material ahead of the readings.
Great lecture. I desagree about certain things though. I have read being and time and other heidegger's work, and from my point of view, he says that authenticity and inauthenticity is like a dance, we are never 100% one of those, both constitutes us as dasein, as being-in-the-world. The search of Being is not a voluntaristic moviment, like in the Christian story of leaving all the fortunes the follow him.
Such a superb talk! Intriguing that as someone who was taught for some time by Jesuits, I recognised so much of that running through Being and Time when I was doing a philosophy degree. Heidegger never forgot that Jesuitical methodology, he is quoted as saying “ if it hadn’t been for studying Theology I would never have discovered Philosophy.” Heidegger in addition to Duns Scotus, studied ( and was heavily influenced by) Meister Elkhart and the 16th Century Jesuit Francisco Suarez. One of my lecturers remarked that one of the difficulties with studying Heidegger was that one was required to learn “Heideggerese”. A former student of Heidegger who worked Theological ideas from Heidegger’s ‘ungodly’ philosophy was the German Theologian Karl Rahner I found reading Rahner actually explained a lot of Heidegger’s thought to me.
Chicago grad student Robert M. Pirsig wrote about two modes of being derived by Kant: the Classical (rational) and the Romantic (aesthetic). When those two things are in balance we have Quality (more or less a Platonic ideal). Before the duality of consciousness, there is Quality, but we are distracted by everyday existence. See Pirsig's book for a way of thinking about being. It was the philosophical best seller of the 20th Century, but given short shrift by academics.
This is something! I have wAtched about 15 of your lectures and this one stands out in your indictment of the person at the center of topic being what I feel is the purpuse of the lecture.
This guy is probably the greatest expositor of Western philosophy now known to the world. Sorry. But as a lifelong collector and reader. I state that this really is off the scale stuff. The internet now brings a golden age of love. Learning. Enthusiasm. Heralded by guys like this.
I got some problems with this guy's analysis of Heidegger. 1) 32:15 Just because a philosopher is a Nazi, doesn't mean none of his ideas should be shunned or you should be ashamed of being associated with those ideas. Nietzsche also talked greatly about nihilism, was misunderstood and even wrongly riled up by the Nazis to support their ideology, and that led to Nietzsche being ignored, in fear of anyone being called out as a Nazi, until Derrida picked him up and restored his greatness. 2) Alot of his "problems" with Heidegger are solved by Sartre in "Being and Nothingness", which is a great departure from Heidegger's mysticism towards secular christianity. 3) His understanding of German seems to be very minimal, which leads to him having a bad understanding of Heidegger. Dasein is a neologism, but it basically means "being there", which can be interpreted as "presence". Unheimlich doesn't mean "being away from home", but rather "eerie". An uncomfortable presence, so it is a reaction of the human being's "presence" (Dasein) to a foreign object that upsets the observer, therefor influencing our experience of reality. 4) Heidegger's ontology isn't a theology without God, but trying to understand how human beings, with the emphasis on beings, are present in the world, how our human minds process the world through the senses and how that affects our experience of the world. It is a dissection of human thought, in so much trying to understand how this process has become a cultural process instead of a biological, chemical, analytical process. If you understand this, it is also easy to understand why Heidegger believed philosophy could only be exercised in German. He was raised German, he talked German, he probably thought in German. German is his modus operandi, therefor the German language and culture form his understanding of the world. Michael is right to argue that Wittgenstein would later prove Heidegger to be wrong, though this also underlines why analytical philosophers might have problems to fully grasp continental philosophy. 3) The so-called "silence of God" was the confrontation that humans were capable of committing such a horrible crime against humanity and that God didn't do anything to stop it. Christianity had lost its worth for (Western) Europe, while Christianity remained unaffected in the USA until WW2 and arguably still is unaffected today. This is also how the relationship between Late Modernism and Postmodernism in continental philosophy should be understood. You cannot understand these waves of philosophy without acknowledging how upsetting the World Wars were for Europe. People were looking for new ways that would lead to a brighter future, as is evident in the student protests globally in the sixties, the hippies in America, quests for new modes of consciousness, the mixing of East and West, but also the scrutiny of what society and culture was made of and how it can be altered into something that works for everyone, and of course its conservative counteraction that still goes on to this day.
Heidegger was only a Nazi party member for about two years and then resigned. Guess he was from peasant stock and thought only the Nazis could keep the workers from going Marxist.
You completely missed the Professors point about Heideggar becoming a Nazi. It’s not the act of becoming a Nazi; it’s that he completely negated his own philosophy of Being by that very action.
Great lecture. I appreciated the most the lecturer's honesty in saying when he did not understand Heidegger. Also appreciated him not avoiding the ethical problem of Heidegger's involvement with Nazism and his final criticisms of his philosophy.
The Continental/Analytical debate gains ground in losing ground; the work in question is an acquired form of frustration, with discernible and noble ends. One hesitates: In Mind. Heidegger goes so far as to question the "concept' of thinking itself. In any event, we are left, still lost in the adventure, with the same questions "all over again". If the science is wanting, the literary reference obscure -- the "trick" of dispensing with God is well met. Let the humble student join the battle for ... truth. Worthy presentation, especially as regards that desire -- I know it well -- to stand at long last on solid earth.
"There are certain questions you have to ask in order to be human, the difficulty is and the tension of being human is that you are forced to ask questions for which there are no answers"" 30:49
Brilliant analysis and evaluation of Heidegger's thought. One must take a stand on his philosophy and not just regurgitate it. Before you criticize his antagonism toward Heidegger, consider Hannah Arendt's take on her former professor/lover in Heidegger the Fox: Once upon a time there was a fox who was so lacking in slyness that he not only kept getting caught in traps but couldn’t even tell the difference between a trap and a non-trap. … After he had spent his entire youth prowling around the traps of people … this fox decided to withdraw from the fox world altogether and to set about making himself a burrow. In his shocking ignorance of the difference between traps and non-traps, despite his incredibly extensive experience with traps, he hit on an idea completely new and unheard of among foxes: He built a trap as his burrow. He set himself inside it, passed it off as a normal burrow (not out of cunning, but because he had always thought others’ traps were their burrows). … Alas, no one would go into his trap, because he was sitting inside it himself. And so it occurred to our fox to decorate his trap beautifully and to hang up unequivocal signs everywhere on it that quite clearly said: “Come here, everyone; this is a trap, the most beautiful trap in the world.” From this point on … many came. Everyone except our fox could, of course, step out of it again. It was cut, literally, to his own measurement. But the fox who lived in the trap said proudly: “So many are visiting me in my trap that I have become the best of all foxes.” And there is some truth in that, too: Nobody knows the nature of traps better than one who sits in a trap his whole life long. (Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1994, 361-362; Arendt, Denktagebuch, 2002, 404-404)
I did like the fact Professor Sugrue was critical of Heidegger as it was quite unexpected and he made fair points. However, his continual confusion about Heidegger's meaning and fixation on "Nothingness" was puzzling . To me, it is just Heidegger reflecting on the ultimate question, "why is there something rather than nothing at all" , i.e. the ground of Being? Perhaps the professor needs to watch a few episodes of "Closer to Truth" with Robert Lawrence Kuhn as "Nothing" is one of his favorite topics.
Absolutely perfect! The shallowness (if not downright hollowness) and vacuity of Heidegger eloquently exposed. And when one thinks he is often touted as one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) philosopher of the 20th century, one has to be confronted with the intellectual (and moral) bankruptcy of the current philosophical enterprise.
I could listen to Michael Sugrue's lectures all day and not get the last tired of them and I'm not even a philosophically-inclined person. I just love the cadence and flow of his words.
Dr. S. Lecture such natural delivery without notes. Read a few lines of Heidegger and went crazy came to in about 20 minutes…I listen to Dr. S. And feel so drawn…though being and ontology has me on a precipice….but I like listening ….remove illusions sounds like Buddhism, but there is no self only emptiness….illusions are created by mind….that’s all I know
I so enjoy these videos, I grew up the son of a poor accountant and we could only afford for me to go to a "new " university in Northern England, nevertheless through hard work and diligence I managed to graduate with a 2:2 in business studies and now, after years of going in to work, I enjoy the satisfaction of also being an accountant! I have had some disappointments as well however, but thanks to Prof Sugrue, I am philosophical about it.
I often name Heidegger as a favourite philosopher..only by being as aware as possible of my eventual end can I live authentically and realize the remarkable value of all things relationships and people..and realize the importance of all interactions kindnesses and opportunities. If I live with the (false) notion that I shall live in this world forever..nothing means very much at all because it's always there and available.... tick tick tick... the 'trick' is realizing how precious everything actually is. Realizing my mortality, not morbidly, but just plainly, factually, adds so much value to my everyday, and gives me a proper appreciation of the immense value of things.
39:44 _"What can you think about nothing? What can you say about nothing? Heidegger appears to suggest that you can say quite a bit, but it beats me what it amounts to..."_ Absolutely savage haha
“And I could seat guests as they come Chatting not about Heidegger but wine.” I was singing this the other day and now this video shows up in my feed. I guess I have to watch it now.
@33:15 - is Heidegger really saying that we should engage in the pre-philosophical state and "deny" Dasein? I understand the hesitance toward his thought due to Nazism but I don't think Michael accurately describes his prescription here.
In my experience, Heidegger is telling a story about how it is to be Dasein; how we live *in-between* the philosophical and pre-philosophical states and we should get right with it, not deny it.
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My favorite part of philosphy is everyone can participate. Im a very poor man and cannot afford school but having a cell phone allows me to watch lectures. Thanks for uploading these.
yet, you can never get close to the level of an academic philosophy student.
why not? @@swaminathan_r1
@@swaminathan_r1 how is your response helpful to a person who can only access knowledge by chance. Anyone who seeks knowledge comes out better than that who",s been forced that way by their wealthy guardins. When one is thirsty of knowledge even a phone is enough further more its not a race.
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Don't think so...
@@majidnba Okay, I care least about your illusions.
"Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we are not what we could have been."
Damn.
this shook me hard, i always felt it but i couldn't articulate.
Ngl, It fucked me up
hows taht different from regrat?
Something that resonates with all of us beyond a doubt.
Unrealized potential is a debt you owe yourself you can never pay back. The way Michael said that hit me like a hammer!
It's an absolute blessing that these lectures are available to ordinary people-my deepest gratitude!
Who are the non-ordinary people to whom this is available otherwise?
@@buckocrooks historically information such as this was sequestered in University's, available exclusively to an elite minority of the population. I suppose that was my point.
I also find these agreeable.
Just don't call me ordinary
@@bigdougbarkz Those of us who are here intellectually challenging ourselves to not only understand the theories and works of the greatest thinkers of human history but also attempt to progress their thought through our own dialectical, academic, or other methods, can simply sleep at night knowing that we contributed to the transcendence of our collective understanding (hopefully some progressive action to protect the planet follows as well). That is the only verification or affirmation that one should ever need and it comes from within. However, I agree, those of who do this are "extra"ordinary. :) But that rests on the condition that we are actively participating in an open dialogue to simultaneously share what we understand as well as broaden our own horizons.
As part of my personal growth I came to realise, I’m not nearly as intelligent as I thought I was. So lectures like these truly baffle and amaze me to see how well thought and deep some people philosophise and are able to share it in a way that others can understand it without having to go through that rabbit hole of thought. Thank you for sharing this lecture!
You've just about summed up my experiences - as each day passes, I realize I'm less intelligent than I ever thought I was. It's humbling, slightly depressing, and yet exciting, because I realize how much more there is to learn and that consequently I'll never get bored!
Absolutely. I found Dr. Sugure's lecture on Marcus Aurelius some time ago, but while I admired the Stoic ideal it didn't quite resonate so I let it drop. Now I've come looking for answers and am just now really feeling and realizing (as opposed to intellectually knowing) that virtually every major quest for understanding by the greatest minds of all time are here at my fingertips. More than enough for one lifetime.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to become lidderate.
This comment surprisingly encapsulates what heidegger meant with cosmic guilt. You have a horizon in your future and you will not learn everything that you have the potential to, and that leaves you with guilt and an obligation to yourself to be the best person you can be!
@@dylandavis4753 I noticed the guilt a lot in last few months. I know i have the potential to become a doctor for example. I live in a country where this would be possible without having to pay for the education. I have the urge to do something with my life that also benefits others, helps others and therefor gives me meaning.
And yet, here i am, not living up to that potential for various reasons. The largest being "lazy" (no thrive, no energy, resisting commitment and the willigness to learn).
And everyday, i feel that guilt and i cant seem to overcome it but im working on it in therapy. But very interesting, thank you for your comment
The description alone warrants praise.
• (Time Stamps)
3:55 - Ontology
5:35 - Heidegger’s issue with Ontology
6:31 - Plato’s view of being and our local understanding of it contrasted with our lack of understanding of it as a whole
7:52 - Heidegger’s approach to understanding “being”
8:45 - What it’s like to be Human
10:06 - What it is to be a Human Being
14:10 - Heidegger’s View of Being
• (Interesting Assertions)
10:51- Man ought to Authentically “Be”
11:58 - To be a Human Being is to contextualize the world and attribute meaning to it
13:33 - I’m calling you back to yourselves
13:45 - “Being” not “being” has a strong homology to God
14:15 - Gospel story of the rich young man
Спасибо большое
Good effort, that chap!
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Oh wow I just now come back to my comment and see all the likes. I did this for myself and end up helping others. Glad I could help!
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Thank you.
Came across these while finding out that Dr Sugrue just recently passed, thank you for making these materials accessible for general public, rest in peace
Rest in Peace
Back in college, I worked hard to study these. Now, I listen to your lectures to relax and focus. Your lectures help me get away from being distracted by distraction. Thank you!
Distracted by distraction it’s almost poetic. Hope you were able to get away for a while, friend.
"Distracted from distraction by distraction", It is poetic, it's from eliots 4 quartets.
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@@kegsmelv117 which is a masterful philosophical work in its own right.
I discovered Professor Sugrue from this video. He has helped my understanding so much over the last few years. I am so dissapointed to learn of his passing. But what an incredible intellectual legacy this man has left behind. I sure do appreciate him and his contributions.
I discovered dr Sugrue's videos after his passing aswell, .. Its remarkable the quality of his lectures, and explanations are so unique! Dr. Sugrue had also a substack site and theres also a podcast ,by him and his daughter ,I believe..❤
This was best lecture on Heidegger that helped me to understand and first lecture I watched by Michael Sugrue. RIP
Class act. Michael Sugrue is exemplary of what is best in the academic tradition-incisive criticism coupled with light heartened self knowledge. Brilliant lecture.
What an absolute GIFT these lectures are to us. With the greatest sincerity, thank you so very much.
Rest in peace professor. I just finished this lecture, which is the first I watched. I especially enjoyed the commentary from a Christian perspective.
i think bro is still alive
Same brother
I think this is my all time favorite lecture on Heidegger. Truly amazing!
This lesson is so comprehensible even for someone who's not a English speaker like me. And the conclusion of Heidegger is intriguing. One must be really lucky to be your student.
Studying Heidegger with the great Dr Joseph P. Fell was a spectacular highlight of my college career. It was completely mind-blowing. The excitement in the room was unforgettable. The validity of Heidegger's work was confirmed for me by the fact that he ultimately started to think in a way entirely compatible with the teachings of Buddha, the ultimate thinker. Both investigated the meaning of human life, and how to live, as deeply as they possibly could.
"Do not let the little Beings of the world distract you from the big Being." Well put, Dr Sugrue.
Your glorification of the Buddha, and the lack of doubts about Heidegger, shows just how empty his philosophy is:p
@@monkerud2108 Buddhism today is a horrible misrepresentation of what the Buddha actually taught
“Empty” is not to be deplored according to the Buddha and Heidegger. According to the former it would be nirvana and to the latter it would be an openness towards Being. But of course, if one is in the business of philosophy for the purpose of obtaining a set of propositions and doctrines this would hardly strike one as very impressive.
And
Heidegger's great deep thoughts on how to live authentically led him to become a Nazi just after Hitler came to power.
But which Buddhist tradition are you following? Saying "Buddha did this" in the context of Buddhist history is about as deep as saying "Jesus did this" except much less because you're talking about a 2500+ old figure with hundreds of various philosophical traditions here.
Which buddha? The teravadin buddha? Nagarjunian Buddha?
Michael Sugrue, I still remember the first lecture I ve seen, years ago. and i remember thinking " I wish I had a teacher like him in college.
🧧
I did. dare I say an even better one: Dr. Rand at GSU. brilliant brilliant brilliant.
TH-cam is a slightly less hostile place thanks to your channel, Michael. thanks
Great comment. Thank you.
No it ain't! You shut up. Jk
Screw you Eunice…😂
Could you please explain? I do not see the connection.
I do not agree but I understand
‘An authentic confrontation with things you’d rather not think about.’ This is so enriching, thank you for uploading this
What a brilliant lecturer. He was made to be a professor.
I’ve never encountered his like. . He is so enthralled to philosophy .
alan watts take note...
Well deserved.
@@carlosgaspar8447 Alan Watts was a brilliant but troubled man.
@@tonyrandall3146 Alan Watts was the reason I left spirituality and all those useless stuff.
He himself died a depressed drunk man, whats the point of following a philosophy where the philosopher himself is not free?
Very happy to see these on TH-cam and hopefully will find a wide audience. Your Plato lectures (which I bought more than a decade ago from TGC) changed my life: I started to learn Ancient Greek and started to read Plato seriously. THANK YOU for your brilliant light and guidance!
I absolutely love your lecture, your lecture on Marcus Aurelius changed my life!!!
And your profile picture.
I could never go to Princeton . I’m so deeply grateful for being able to hear Prof Sugrue on TH-cam
Great lecturer. Been a long time ago I read Being and Time. When I was at university my former German professor said that reading Heidegger almost had to be done in Deutsch - his wordplays are legendary and beautiful (in Deutsch) and in many ways the power and beauty of his prose are lost in any translation. I couldn't agree more on the mystic and exhausting wordplay of the work and I remember almost skimming the second part of Being and Time as it is so incomprehensible, you loose the motivation to finish it. The more you understand of his thinking, the harder it seems to get and I do think it is only the 1 part that is worth reading. I remember my teacher at the time also saying that his teacher and later colleague Husserl work was of more importance, but I have never read him.
The biggest problem with Heidegger was and is his biography and I couldn't agree more on Michael Sugrues sentiment on it - a work that so strongly, and often brilliantly urges you to follow him, for sure makes you hesitant considering just what Heidegger did to Husserl and his deep admiration of the nazi party. The real nasty part the work is that of ´das man´ and it is clear that much of his thought on man was in line with the extreme right wing politics of the nazi party. If I remember the course correct, Heidegger was apparently very unsure of himself, and he wrote most of his work on the countryside in a shed where he assumed the full on character of a farmer... I could be wrong about this, but I'm quite sure of it - people describing meeting one of the biggest philosophers in our time with the clothing, mannerisms and accent of a potato farmer...
Heiddegers strength was surprisingly in teaching, and his lectures were often completely overcrowded and people were often sitting outside listening through open windows. He was apparently a great pedagogue and lecturer. So was this by Michael Sugrue. Excellence.
Thank you very much for sharing these lessons. Currently a student, it would amaze me like never before if my teachers had as much inspiration and passion put in their lessons. Witnessing thinking is the most enriching experience one can have.
man.. after reading many books about existentialism, listening to dr. sugrue is one of the greatest joys.. because he distills these wholesome of fuzzy& blurred information with his wisdom so well that you become able to connect the dots in your mind.. thanks a lot !
Michael Sugre makes me want to re-live my life and dedicate it to learning.
So true. Million likes for you
Start now, my friend.
Thanks!
All 50 lectures from the great minds of the western intellectual tradition were on TH-cam at one point, removed for copy right violation.
It's so great to see Michael Sugrue back on TH-cam.
I hope Darren Staloff uploads his lectures. I remember watching a great lecture he gave on Spinoza and freedom.
All 53 are still on TH-cam, just hidden.
@@BaronM where ?
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@@yashmishra7103 th-cam.com/play/PLez3PPtnpncT3FVrZqrLGllGpOf4HXJFh.html
@@cliftonawesomekid hey- many many thank yous for this find. much appreciated
Michael, you are simply wonderful. I am in Calicut, Southern tip of India. In fact , I was in US from June 19 to September 19, 2019. I had visited Princeton Uni. My mother used often mention Princeton, since it was the institution which gave refuge and job to Einstein, when he escaped Nazi Germany. Einstein visited India in about 1937, on an invitation of CV.Raman, fame Raman effect. My mother was a student at American college, Madurai. and her chemistry professor took their batch to Madras to attend a public meeting held at Madras university. Michael's presentation is simple, shorn off jargon and quite understandable, and ipso facto superb. Hat's off to you, Sir. Advocate Victor Antony Noone.
0:29 Influential, Verbal Tricks, Ambitious
5:04 How do you study Being?
Introspection, Looking Within
6:41 Plato - Being is like Light
small beings are objects we see, colors we experience
"Is"
8:58 Dazine - What it is like to be Human Being
Finite, Contingent, Anxious, Worrisome, Guilty
We are stuck within the Intercosom
Authenticity - Be What You Are
Being - A Context, An Order
12:25 A Governed Realm
12:52 Language, Discourse, Speech, (Formalized Ideas)
13:36 NO More Distractions 0 don't be distracted by distraction from distraction
14:10 The Rich Young Man
Sell all you have and follow me
Follow authenticity
15:10 You BECOME A Being, You Earn It
Stop Ignoring What You Be
*Being*
16:25 Facticity -I was THROWN INTO THE WORLD Without my permission, DEAL WITH IT
17:22 We are deprived
19:03 Confront The World, Confront Life, As it really is, Face Reality, Face Fact
20:30 Cultivate Being, Cultivate Yourself
22:23 See Reality, Know Reality, Face Reality
Be Human 23:18 Confront Death, Recognize Conscious, Follow Authenticity
26:46 Authenticity
_"We confront obligations to ourselves we can never meet."_
27:48 Being concerns it's continuance, this creates Fright, Angst,
Guilt - The uncomfort we didn't become what we could have been
29:50 We will not do all, you have to choose what you will do
_You owe yourself a debt you can never repay_
30:57 You Must Ask Questions You Cannot Answer
Obscurity piled on Obscurity
with Authentic Honesty
31:58 It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
33:32 History of Human Beings
Oriented Toward The End
34:25 Thinking about NOTHING
Confront Being As It Really Is
35:20 Philosophy can only be done in German 36:18
37:00 Analyzing Pre-Socratics
Wood Trails --> Caul De Sac
39:35 Can you say something about nothing?
Man does not feel heimly/homely in the world
Play on Words, Puns
41:33 Morality, Mysticism
Nihilism - _Speech indistinguishable from Silence_
Solipsism - Working from the inside out
Dread, Death
Reductionism
44:39 Being - Silence of God
Not that important, but the german term is Dasein instead of dazine.
I watched this while removing a rotten plumbing stack in an ancient tenement and found that despite the sheer horrors of the work itself my mind was crackling with thought and reflection. What an age we live in that one can learn 24/7 with the entirety of the human experience in their pocket at all times.
That closing line: “The silence of God.”
>God clears throat
@@jancsibacsi9979 then ensues to stay silent...
@@wrathofgrothendieck Or to whisper a wish.
@@soundtracksfortheblind ok, no 😄. Rosebud...
Life changing access to this brilliance and commitment. So completely absorbing !! The language for starters. Intellectually intimidating but all the more inspiring !!
Not too recondite? I had to look at that word up, when he used it :)
Professor many compliments for your great clarity! What a pleasure to listen!
Currently studying by my own being and time, and this was good reminder to me, just in time. To think, is to think, I think. Dr. Sugrue, u were an incredibly individual. Yes, and Becker was very big influence for me. Oh man, where does this leaves me with my little intellectual journey. To Be or not to be.
This lecture is needed, in these modern times
His ontological view is 💯💯💯
"But I could be wrong" is a really great punchline catchphrase X)
If I were ever to get a tattoo on my forehead,
"But I could be wrong" would be a strong contender.
“We have an obligation to ourselves to become what we can.“ Amazing lecture on a very slippery subject. “Imagine trying to bite your own teeth.“ 🧐 Evolution seems to be pushing us towards distraction, but this obligation, in the end, is the greatest gift to ourselves as well as evolution itself.
You shed light on Heidegger for me. I am grateful.
I really enjoyed this for a number of reasons. I'm a fan of Dr. Michael Sugrue's lectures, not only because they are pregnant with richness and character, but also because when he criticizes an idea or thinker, it always has an undertone of biting humor. I hadn't noticed at first my smiling as he rounded out his polemic on Being And Time and Heidegger in general, things which I thought to myself when delving into Heidegger but that I chocked up to my own misunderstanding of a complex philosophy.
chalked up
Ewww
6:50 it strongly resonates with Adishankaracharya's quote:"just as fire cannot burn by itself ,,the self cannot be the object of its own knowledge"
I'm the son of a poor cobbler who was raised in the streets of Alligator Town, Mississippi. I never received an education, and I started my cobbler apprenticeship when I was seven years old after my father died of measles. These videos have been a blessing and an absolute gift; since discovering them I have been granted a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship scholarship at Harvard and have achieved levels of enlightenment of which my family has never dared to dream. Cogito, ergo sum. Carthago delenda est.
Shouldn't you be busy with your alleged Harvard Scholarship instead of watching videos buddy?
I got u beat. I started to work at the age of 6 when my whole family died from tuberculosis combined with consumption and I just had to run the family business of a small shoe-shining stand near a ghetto. Luckily I survived and have since then I been accepted into Cambridge on several grants made only for homeless former working children or the HFWC award from the I.LIE Fellowship Scholarship. I am now living the life just like you, however I think therefore I fool others.
i feel happy and blessed that till now , 100,000 people are interested in this , it deserves more i know but at least people are still interested in such matters
He made Heidegger accessible to me, I've been struggling to find a good entry point, thank you for sharing your knowledge and structure!
but unfortunately he totally misinterprets Heidegger and got stuck in his own confusion and cartesian worldview. To make it worse, he was pretty confident he was right
This is a very bad entry point to Heidegger. I'd be reluctant to even call it an entry point, seeing that he engages very poorly with Heidegger's philosophy and concepts.
@@HSSLNG If you have another video to recommend as an entry point to Heidegger I would be very interested. Thanks in advance.
@@fablekey There's a lecture on Philosophy Overdose called "Heidegger, Being & Ontotheology (Mary-Jane Rubenstein)" that I quite enjoyed. I think it does presuppose some basic understanding of Heideggerian philosophy, so it's not really an entry point.
I don't think it's easy to give a good introduction to Heidegger, but some of these online mediums are too eager to squeeze too much Heidegger into too little time. This lecture by Michael Sugrue for example takes on A LOT of central themes of Being & Time in 45 minutes. By comparison I'd receive 2 hour lectures on the first 20-30 pages of the book at my university.
@@HSSLNG thanks for that, I will go take a look!
* Dr. Sugrue opens a jar of peanut butter *
This jar of peanut butter is probably one of the most influential, important jars of peanut butter in perhaps the past decade; maybe even the last century.
😂😂😂
lolz
.. *sips coffee*..."Now.."
"Before Carver, peanuts were limited to crunchy snacks.... this Jar was mere peanuts until it chose total commitment and threw itself into a grinder; complete deconstruction of individual peanuts into a greater collective whole. Yummy."
Real peanut butter not today’s peanut spread.
I have just discovered this channel and I’m immensly happy that I did. Great lecture!
LOVE having the old Great Minds lectures from the Teaching Company, again! This series went through several incarnations, with this one disappearing with the VHS/cassette tapes (I don' think it ever made it to DVD) When my local library phased out VHS tapes, I thought I'd never see them again! I do have the latest version, which is great, but I just loved Sugrue and these old timey ones.
There's something about the analog recording, the simple sets and the longer lectures that brings me back to when I worked a menial job, unable to attend school, but wanting to learn as much as I could. I made it to college eventually and double-majored in philosophy, and these lectures paved the way for me. My professors were always impressed that I had knowledge and insight on the class material ahead of the readings.
I like Heidegger's work. I love the thrills and chills, but it's also got a lot of heart. 5 bags of Popcorn.
5 bags? Are you a Greghead or something?
Great lecture. I desagree about certain things though. I have read being and time and other heidegger's work, and from my point of view, he says that authenticity and inauthenticity is like a dance, we are never 100% one of those, both constitutes us as dasein, as being-in-the-world. The search of Being is not a voluntaristic moviment, like in the Christian story of leaving all the fortunes the follow him.
Such a superb talk! Intriguing that as someone who was taught for some time by Jesuits, I recognised so much of that running through Being and Time when I was doing a philosophy degree. Heidegger never forgot that Jesuitical methodology, he is quoted as saying “ if it hadn’t been for studying Theology I would never have discovered Philosophy.” Heidegger in addition to Duns Scotus, studied ( and was heavily influenced by) Meister Elkhart and the 16th Century Jesuit Francisco Suarez. One of my lecturers remarked that one of the difficulties with studying Heidegger was that one was required to learn “Heideggerese”.
A former student of Heidegger who worked Theological ideas from Heidegger’s ‘ungodly’ philosophy was the German Theologian Karl Rahner I found reading Rahner actually explained a lot of Heidegger’s thought to me.
Chicago grad student Robert M. Pirsig wrote about two modes of being derived by Kant: the Classical (rational) and the Romantic (aesthetic). When those two things are in balance we have Quality (more or less a Platonic ideal). Before the duality of consciousness, there is Quality, but we are distracted by everyday existence. See Pirsig's book for a way of thinking about being. It was the philosophical best seller of the 20th Century, but given short shrift by academics.
The integral consciousness model discussed by gebser is a much more accommodating measure
This is something! I have wAtched about 15 of your lectures and this one stands out in your indictment of the person at the center of topic being what I feel is the purpuse of the lecture.
"Definition of Nihilism: Speech that's indistinguishable from Silence" Wow!
This guy is probably the greatest expositor of Western philosophy now known to the world. Sorry. But as a lifelong collector and reader. I state that this really is off the scale stuff. The internet now brings a golden age of love. Learning. Enthusiasm. Heralded by guys like this.
I got some problems with this guy's analysis of Heidegger.
1) 32:15 Just because a philosopher is a Nazi, doesn't mean none of his ideas should be shunned or you should be ashamed of being associated with those ideas. Nietzsche also talked greatly about nihilism, was misunderstood and even wrongly riled up by the Nazis to support their ideology, and that led to Nietzsche being ignored, in fear of anyone being called out as a Nazi, until Derrida picked him up and restored his greatness.
2) Alot of his "problems" with Heidegger are solved by Sartre in "Being and Nothingness", which is a great departure from Heidegger's mysticism towards secular christianity.
3) His understanding of German seems to be very minimal, which leads to him having a bad understanding of Heidegger. Dasein is a neologism, but it basically means "being there", which can be interpreted as "presence".
Unheimlich doesn't mean "being away from home", but rather "eerie". An uncomfortable presence, so it is a reaction of the human being's "presence" (Dasein) to a foreign object that upsets the observer, therefor influencing our experience of reality.
4) Heidegger's ontology isn't a theology without God, but trying to understand how human beings, with the emphasis on beings, are present in the world, how our human minds process the world through the senses and how that affects our experience of the world. It is a dissection of human thought, in so much trying to understand how this process has become a cultural process instead of a biological, chemical, analytical process.
If you understand this, it is also easy to understand why Heidegger believed philosophy could only be exercised in German. He was raised German, he talked German, he probably thought in German. German is his modus operandi, therefor the German language and culture form his understanding of the world. Michael is right to argue that Wittgenstein would later prove Heidegger to be wrong, though this also underlines why analytical philosophers might have problems to fully grasp continental philosophy.
3) The so-called "silence of God" was the confrontation that humans were capable of committing such a horrible crime against humanity and that God didn't do anything to stop it. Christianity had lost its worth for (Western) Europe, while Christianity remained unaffected in the USA until WW2 and arguably still is unaffected today.
This is also how the relationship between Late Modernism and Postmodernism in continental philosophy should be understood. You cannot understand these waves of philosophy without acknowledging how upsetting the World Wars were for Europe. People were looking for new ways that would lead to a brighter future, as is evident in the student protests globally in the sixties, the hippies in America, quests for new modes of consciousness, the mixing of East and West, but also the scrutiny of what society and culture was made of and how it can be altered into something that works for everyone, and of course its conservative counteraction that still goes on to this day.
Heidegger was only a Nazi party member for about two years and then resigned. Guess he was from peasant stock and thought only the Nazis could keep the workers from going Marxist.
You completely missed the Professors point about Heideggar becoming a Nazi. It’s not the act of becoming a Nazi; it’s that he completely negated his own philosophy of Being by that very action.
@@MegaFount "Do as I say, not as I do"
some very good points in this comment
This is such a great and beautiful content for free on the internet. I never see a Heidegger class like this. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you. Very informative. I admire your ability to carry on the lecture with such enthusiasm and undiminishing clarity.
Great lecture. I appreciated the most the lecturer's honesty in saying when he did not understand Heidegger. Also appreciated him not avoiding the ethical problem of Heidegger's involvement with Nazism and his final criticisms of his philosophy.
That was phenomenal! Many blessings for sharing your gift with us all.
The Continental/Analytical debate gains ground in losing ground; the work in question is an acquired form of frustration, with discernible and noble ends. One hesitates: In Mind. Heidegger goes so far as to question the "concept' of thinking itself. In any event, we are left, still lost in the adventure, with the same questions "all over again". If the science is wanting, the literary reference obscure -- the "trick" of dispensing with God is well met. Let the humble student join the battle for ... truth. Worthy presentation, especially as regards that desire -- I know it well -- to stand at long last on solid earth.
Your lectures are amazing. Full stop. It would be great if these were uploaded as a podcast.
But you can't see Dr. Sugrue pace as he lectures!
"There are certain questions you have to ask in order to be human, the difficulty is and the tension of being human is that you are forced to ask questions for which there are no answers""
30:49
Brilliant analysis and evaluation of Heidegger's thought. One must take a stand on his philosophy and not just regurgitate it. Before you criticize his antagonism toward Heidegger, consider Hannah Arendt's take on her former professor/lover in Heidegger the Fox: Once upon a time there was a fox who was so lacking in slyness that he not only kept getting caught in traps but couldn’t even tell the difference between a trap and a non-trap. … After he had spent his entire youth prowling around the traps of people … this fox decided to withdraw from the fox world altogether and to set about making himself a burrow. In his shocking ignorance of the difference between traps and non-traps, despite his incredibly extensive experience with traps, he hit on an idea completely new and unheard of among foxes: He built a trap as his burrow. He set himself inside it, passed it off as a normal burrow (not out of cunning, but because he had always thought others’ traps were their burrows). … Alas, no one would go into his trap, because he was sitting inside it himself. And so it occurred to our fox to decorate his trap beautifully and to hang up unequivocal signs everywhere on it that quite clearly said: “Come here, everyone; this is a trap, the most beautiful trap in the world.” From this point on … many came. Everyone except our fox could, of course, step out of it again. It was cut, literally, to his own measurement. But the fox who lived in the trap said proudly: “So many are visiting me in my trap that I have become the best of all foxes.” And there is some truth in that, too: Nobody knows the nature of traps better than one who sits in a trap his whole life long. (Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1994, 361-362; Arendt, Denktagebuch, 2002, 404-404)
I did like the fact Professor Sugrue was critical of Heidegger as it was quite unexpected and he made fair points. However, his continual confusion about Heidegger's meaning and fixation on "Nothingness" was puzzling . To me, it is just Heidegger reflecting on the ultimate question, "why is there something rather than nothing at all" , i.e. the ground of Being? Perhaps the professor needs to watch a few episodes of "Closer to Truth" with Robert Lawrence Kuhn as "Nothing" is one of his favorite topics.
Imo Heidegger is highly overestmated. I like this fox-trap-story.
@@dioklezian3128 care to share what you base your opinion on?
I have learned so much from these lectures. Thank you Dr. Sugrue
"Death extinguishes all our possibilities, it does not exhaust all our possibilities"
i love these videos, back from the good ol' days when smart folks lectured in front of maps drawn by previous smart folks
Wow!. Clear and beautiful lecture. A work of art.
Absolutely perfect! The shallowness (if not downright hollowness) and vacuity of Heidegger eloquently exposed. And when one thinks he is often touted as one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) philosopher of the 20th century, one has to be confronted with the intellectual (and moral) bankruptcy of the current philosophical enterprise.
I could listen to Michael Sugrue's lectures all day and not get the last tired of them and I'm not even a philosophically-inclined person. I just love the cadence and flow of his words.
Marbelouse, these clear and nourishing lessons are just so very pleasant. Thanks for illustrating us and giving us such a good time.
"The phenomenology of careerism" - one of the funniest, most underrated jokes in modern society.
Dr. S. Lecture such natural delivery without notes. Read a few lines of Heidegger and went crazy came to in about 20 minutes…I listen to Dr. S. And feel so drawn…though being and ontology has me on a precipice….but I like listening ….remove illusions sounds like Buddhism, but there is no self only emptiness….illusions are created by mind….that’s all I know
The End of this lecture tops it off and makes it truly perfect.
Yes, a mic drop ending!
Best and most comprehensive analysis of Heidegger I ve ever witnessed to. Many thanx!
I love the way Dr Sahib makes such complex n elusive ideas accessible to the lay learners like me. Indeed, words fall short to express my gratitude.
I so enjoy these videos, I grew up the son of a poor accountant and we could only afford for me to go to a "new " university in Northern England, nevertheless through hard work and diligence I managed to graduate with a 2:2 in business studies and now, after years of going in to work, I enjoy the satisfaction of also being an accountant! I have had some disappointments as well however, but thanks to Prof Sugrue, I am philosophical about it.
Brilliant content my man! Concise, articulate and passionate.
I often name Heidegger as a favourite philosopher..only by being as aware as possible of my eventual end can I live authentically and realize the remarkable value of all things relationships and people..and realize the importance of all interactions kindnesses and opportunities. If I live with the (false) notion that I shall live in this world forever..nothing means very much at all because it's always there and available.... tick tick tick... the 'trick' is realizing how precious everything actually is. Realizing my mortality, not morbidly, but just plainly, factually, adds so much value to my everyday, and gives me a proper appreciation of the immense value of things.
39:44 _"What can you think about nothing? What can you say about nothing? Heidegger appears to suggest that you can say quite a bit, but it beats me what it amounts to..."_
Absolutely savage haha
Kudos to the cameraman 😊 Jokes aside, it's a very lucid and easy to follow interpretation of a very hard to follow philosopher. Thanks for uploading!
wonderful lecture. I will hear it repeatedly.
You have left a lot of light behind you. Rest in peace professor ❤️🙏
Thank you so much for providing these lectures!
“And I could seat guests as they come
Chatting not about Heidegger but wine.”
I was singing this the other day and now this video shows up in my feed. I guess I have to watch it now.
God I love rent
Thank you for uploading all these great videos!
23:55 Well, Dr. Sugrue must certainly have something meaningful to say about it now
@33:15 - is Heidegger really saying that we should engage in the pre-philosophical state and "deny" Dasein? I understand the hesitance toward his thought due to Nazism but I don't think Michael accurately describes his prescription here.
In my experience, Heidegger is telling a story about how it is to be Dasein; how we live *in-between* the philosophical and pre-philosophical states and we should get right with it, not deny it.
Which therefore does NOT prescribe the submission to Nazi ideology or "das man"
"Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we're not who we could've been". Now that hits some messages back to my brain!
I love when the professor says “I could be wrong”, when he really means “oh, I’m definitely right!” 😂
Thank you, Dr Sugrue, for uploading these lectures
An excellent exposition of "Being and Time".
One of the very best lectures on the complexities of Heidegger
that coffee is never getting finished.
I never had a teacher be able to lecture with such ease .
Great stuff. Funny how it looks like a mid Eighties SNL sketch.
I like these videos before I even watch them because I just know its gonna be good
Thanks Michael this was an intellectual motivational cleansing
Beautifully said
“Nothing Knots” … nothing always leads to something. Nothingness until the Big Bang! Great lecture
The type of professor every student dreams of having!