Machiavelli
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Absolute treasure. Thanks to his daughter for preserving his digital legacy for future generations.
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This man has changed my perspective in ways I can’t quite explain in a coherent fashion. All I can say is that it’s such a blessing that we can listen to this man’s dissertations online about some of the most important literary topics of humanity. Thank you for this content
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I was hooked when I saw your lecture on marcus aurelius, I'm a big fan, you made philosophy so much easier for me. Thank you professor
Sugrue is quite influenced by the Straussian, Alan Bloom. If you want more content along those lines, try Leo Strauss' "The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism". Then go from there!
@@camorinbatchelder6514 don’t Straussians believe in deceiving laypeople? They have one world view, that they perceive to be correct and that they pursuit, yet, simultaneously, influence laypeople to believe a false worldview… so as to deceive and gain a one up. Did I get that right?
@@divinegon4671 yes, Strauss distinguished between the "estoteric" (elitism) and the "exoteric" (plebs). He basically espoused a secular political theology for the elites and a religous thralldom for the laypeople.
Strauss and his followers can indeed be very deceptive, reflected by their excessive universalism and rationalism in politics, which is destructive towards laypeople. Notwithstanding, Strauss is unique; a Platonist and a Nietzschian in the same breath. Maybe balance him out with Isaiah Berlin or Roger Scruton?
@@camorinbatchelder6514 wonderful. Thank you
Thanks to Micheal and his daughter for all the content!
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Michael, I've only recently come across your content and lectures. I have not studied philosophy nor politics at university for many years now and you have reignited that love of knowledge that used to burn bright. So thank you Michael and all the best.
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It’s not just the material but the presentation… your ability to simply and seamlessly discuss such a variety of deep topics really shows your storytelling capability.
You have a great talent, not just of recall but of engaging your students.
Thank you so much, I hope you know we all love and appreciate you Doc!
Your magic as a lecturer never left! Completely entranced as always
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Saw your lectures on Marcus Aurelius and Arthur Schopenhauer and loved them but totally delighted to see more yet being done! Thank you Professor Sugrue for sharing!
A huuuge THANK YOU from a 30 y old Croatian who you’ve helped enormously in not regretting he ended up studying something else rather than philosophy by at least getting sparks of it on the internets- I’m certain you can’t imagine how much it means to a massive amount of us - THANK YOU, SIR!
Michael just want to thank you for continuing to create and share amazing educational content. I’m almost 30 and have been a fan since my college days, your lectures are timeless!
Thanks again for the wisdom
Thank you, again. You bring so much enrichment to us, in such an astoundingly venerable manner. Love it.
So thankful to have discovered this channel. This is high quality education from a brilliant man.
I just finished listening to your lecture on Machiavelli not two hours ago! This is great
Dr. Sugrue, suggestion delivered with great love and respect: In your youth, your lectures were delivered with a frenetic walking pace. Your current lectures are delivered while you are seated. Unless you are constrained by health restrictions, have you thought about a medium between those two deliveries, like a simple meandering walk in the park? I'd love to see some of your lectures delivered in that fashion. Cheers and thank you.
People like you are such a few on this planet. Please let have more of you before the doomsday reaches us. Thank you so much
Love this. Thank you, Mr. Sugrue.
Glad to see you making new content! I've watched pretty much all your old lectures on here and have loved every minute. Huge thank you for all your work
I just read the article about Tom Rollins and the teaching company where it mentions you coming in clutch with a brilliant, off-the-cuff Machiavelli lecture when the scheduled guy got too nervous. I would love to hear your thoughts about what you think the wild success of your lectures (and the teaching company/great courses/ other youtube lecturers) says about modern Universities and where education should go given how the internet has increased the communication bandwidth so broadly.
Also: The article mentions some antics of Rick Roderick's. One quote in particular when Tom Rollins apparently told Roderick he'd have to cut some political remarks about Nancy Reagan was Rick saying “Tom, truth is a defense to libel.” I'd love to hear your thoughts on Professor Roderick or experiences with him, if you had any?
Thanks for all you do and sorry for the lengthy email-comment. Heres the article for anyone interested in some background mentioning Dr. Sugrue and the Teaching Company he brilliantly helped succeed in the pre-internet era of recorded, high-level public education. www.city-journal.org/html/great-courses-great-profits-13393.html
your lectures have left me craving more i love hearing you talk about philosophy
Sugrue is quite influenced by the Straussian, Alan Bloom. If you want more content along those lines, try Leo Strauss' "The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism". Then go from there!
This feels like one long set up for a killer punch line. Michael, you are the absolute best
The myth, the man, the legend! Truly a master lecturer!
Loved your original lecture and love the reboot 👏
Always good to see the professor pop up on my feed.
You’re a gen sit! I salute you and have been a fan for years, glad to see your new material.
Always a pleasure to listen to your lectures, thank you for your work!
Thank you for your work Dr. Sugrue 🙏
More videos like this please Michael!
Thank you, sir. Thank you for everything.
Just discovered this channel. Educational resources like this are so important! Thank you
Michael your a legend man thanks for the very informative material.
You are a rhetorical powerhouse if I've ever seen one! Brilliant!
Very glad to see you are still at it.
Feel crazy lucky to easily have access to information like this, thank you so much!
Thank you Michael! Just found your meditations lecture from a couple decades ago. Will be watching you every week
Im enjoying this while sipping my coffee thank you sir!
Looking forward to all these additional talks that I see popping up on my feed; what a feast!
Brilliant talk, Micheal. I listened to another talk of yours on Machiavelli. This one was so much better. Thank you. Your channel is excellent.
Love it, Dr Saheb!
you're the best. weaving in Strauss? Brilliant!
You're the man.
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Thank you for sharing your profound knowledge of history professor.
Thank you, I saw your previous lecture on Niccolò. Haven't seen a better lecture on the subject.
This is awesome this what a college professor should be thank you
Thank you for this ❤
Hello, sir! It`s a real pleasure to hear you and to understand much better the philosophy with you, but I cannot believe that You had such a physical transformation during the year. Congratulations for the videos and keep it going on!
I’m now hearing of you and I’m becoming a big time fan. Learning a shit ton and enjoying the video
One of my favorite components of Dr Sugrue’s lectures is the emphasis on historical context and exactly why and what influenced a theorist to write the way they do.
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A great teacher never loses the gift of enlightening others and bringing history and theory to life. Thank you.
Glad your getting your due on subscribers..... still not enough.... your the man you did the hard work of study so you could teach it to us dummies in a fraction of time.... big fan of the way I have seen you in other videos not say the persons theory/views/life is wrong or right (unless obvious) but open ended... big ups to you 💪 🙏🙏🙏
Edit: I feel I should thank you for continuing our shared passion.... we're blessed
Your lectures are the best content on TH-cam. They should be interruptions courtesy of the Emergency Broadcast System.
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"Philosophy is the preparation for death. Why would one be afraid of the moment he has been preparing for?"
I read some of the classics occasionally. I’m not educated to-any high standard, I haven’t been to university. What I find is although they can be long, hard work and challenging, it’s AFTER you’ve read the work that has the most impact. It is only then that it sinks in just how important or good it was. I find my self thinking about it or doing some light research into connected works etc. I don’t do that with mainstream fiction, which I love. However, some of the classics can actually change you.
Hello Doctor, you are Marcus Aurelius with this style , thanks for your precious lectures.
Thanks doc!
There's legendary, then there's Sugrue on Machiavelli 👑
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Thank you good sir.
Long live Professor Sugrue!
Thank you for the lectures regarding Nietzsche.
"maybe human condition should sometimes be such that there's no way to avoid evil....that's one of the reasons I'm not a politician" brilliant
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Thanks professor
Brilliant!
Hope to see you back in a classroom setting, it will be such a great idea to create series like the Harvard Justice Series by Michael Sandel.
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0:13 One of the most Famous Florentine Political Commentators
1:10 1469-1527, 1492
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2:36 Italy 🇮🇹 🏈 Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice
3:28 Separating Politics and Ethics
We can tell winners and losers in our human lives
5:46 It’s about learning How to Win
• Diabolical liars end up dead
6:34 Wise Ruler’s Economy Of Evil
7:25 “You have to know when to pick your shot.”
8:19 If you want cleaning, go to the church, if you want power, go into politics.
8:43 Politics and Ethics aren’t
• Double Crossing
10:15 Power is expansive intrinsically
• Outwit the enemy, Realpolitik
• [ _Break a few eggs to make an omelette_ ]
12:52 Like a 16th century Sophistry,
14:12 _The Discourse on Living_
15:10 The Man of Ability, of Ambition,
15:49 “You’re gonna have to make a choice.”
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Saving
Power
17:05 Problem
- Makes man not social anymore
- Not bound by constraints
- Unloyal Politician
19:21 He’s amazingly talented
• He chooses Action over Contemplation
• He’s a dark comedian
21:03 Disguise 🥸 _Mandragala Root_
23:00 An artwork 🖼 of his view of human nature
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24:42 Cynical 🤨
26:04 Machiavelli
• King Lear’s Bad Brother
27:12 A Teacher of Evil [Treachery]
28:12 The Perfect Machiavellian
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Thank you! Please consider an episode about Guicciardini. They lived at the same time; it's interesting to compare their opposing approaches to history.
This is one of those talks I would want to memorize.
Peace be with you brother! 🙏🙏🙏
good work
You have some of the best philosophy videos on TH-cam. If you have not thought of it, investing in a good microphone and camera could satisfy the TH-cam algorithm and get you in front of more people, because you deserve it.
For further study, I'd recommend also work by Cary Nedderman (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for free, online, last time I looked), and Leo Paul de Alvarez, "The Machiavellian Enterprise," a scholarly study that achieved a second edition, available on Amazon, last time I looked.
The truthsayers (like Machiavelli) may not be blessed, but they will be admired for calling it like they see it. Great lecture!
Sir, first I have saw your younger version videos.Suddenly, I got here and surprised that those were the videos filmed two decades earlier
Aww yeah! A prepared Machiavelli lecture. Forget the price, we've got the king himself.
awesome work sir sugrue!, would love to hear you cover Nietzsche
yes
He has released two lecture on Nietzsche already. Check out his channel :)
It's odd how Machiavelli being Machiavelli still undergoes torture....But I think it suits the sentence that the professor spoke at the end....
Interesting to hear Strauss come up here. Would love to hear a lecture on his thought!
I tend to watch your lecture on Machiavelli every now and then. It's a joy to see another video on him as well. Can you recommend some other political philosophers that follow his intellectual traditions?
Ayo?! my guy is still at it?!!💪
The way he sets up the historical context is absolutely brilliant; you don't get that insight so incisively in Strauss, or Zuckert, or Mansfield--at least I haven't! I wonder if it is true what I've read, that Rousseau opined that "The Prince" is really a satire! Anyway, Thank You Michael Sugrue!
Informative
I love all your work! Thank you for all you fo and may God bless you and your family
Thanks for all your videos, they are great. When the Internet first became popular, I assumed the future would be full of this sort of content. But instead of Intelligent and generous people like yourself making the world a better place, we got cats playing keyboards and teenagers twerking.
I highly suggest the book The Machiavelliana by James Burnham!
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Cool dude
Love more content, Machiavelli. You should read Chanakya (just read some quotes by him you'll get a same flavour), he is the biggest equal to Machiavelli but isn't covered that much. PLEASE look into him and speak to him as well.