Great Minds - Introduction to the Problems and Scope of Philosophy

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

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  • @jordantheconjurer
    @jordantheconjurer 10 месяцев назад +71

    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

    • @rl1389
      @rl1389 Месяц назад

      lol he's alive

    • @whatdoesthisthingdo
      @whatdoesthisthingdo Месяц назад

      @@rl1389 He passed away in January of this year.
      RIP, Professor.

  • @gaborborbely776
    @gaborborbely776 2 года назад +148

    This series is the single biggest proof that RUclips can also make good to humans. Thank you so much for this invaluable content!

    • @paulbenis1172
      @paulbenis1172 11 месяцев назад

      the sophist

    • @willmercury
      @willmercury 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@paulbenis1172Don't be so hard on yourself.

  • @Dimebag91
    @Dimebag91 4 года назад +385

    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!

    • @TolaRat
      @TolaRat 3 года назад +3

      +1 👆🏼

    • @waterwolf1237
      @waterwolf1237 3 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/IXBwauVGIzI/видео.html

    • @andrewryan2814
      @andrewryan2814 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @cheogrady
      @cheogrady 2 года назад +1

      @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!!!

    • @syedaliraza1494
      @syedaliraza1494 Год назад +1

      I second you. I'm a philosophy teacher and I can't really explain how much I owe this man.

  • @robinsonholloway142
    @robinsonholloway142 6 месяцев назад +30

    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.

  • @piaraskelly1038
    @piaraskelly1038 8 месяцев назад +9

    I just came across Prof Sugrue recently. Amazing content from an amazing thinker and teacher. So grateful it is available. RIP.

  • @nareshdekkapati7709
    @nareshdekkapati7709 Год назад +9

    Sir, Excellent lecture.keep these lectures on you tube for the benefit of future generations.
    13.9.23.India.

  • @rodnee2340
    @rodnee2340 9 месяцев назад +6

    I just discovered Michael's lectures TODAY! And I'm now in my third one. Absolutely entertaining delivery with a transparency that is rare.

  • @JRC_86
    @JRC_86 Год назад +22

    The amount of clarity woven throughout these lectures is astounding.

  • @thattimestampguy
    @thattimestampguy 2 года назад +169

    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?

  • @Nick-qf7vt
    @Nick-qf7vt 2 года назад +61

    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.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 3 месяца назад +5

    Professor Michael Sugrue will be remembered always.
    🙏❤️

  • @derrickparra8734
    @derrickparra8734 4 года назад +816

    The type of professor you'd ditch class to go and listen to.

    • @TheyBenefit
      @TheyBenefit 3 года назад +53

      Would've stayed in school if I had professor like him lol. Love his Meditations lecture. Also, thank you Prof. Sugrue for uploading these.

    • @Hasan-cq1sz
      @Hasan-cq1sz 3 года назад +28

      The type of professor you'd ditch procrastinating to go listen to

    • @hughwheaton2705
      @hughwheaton2705 2 года назад +3

      @@Hasan-cq1sz literally haha

    • @dustincaldwell2354
      @dustincaldwell2354 2 года назад +1

      That’s what the f*%# I’m talking about! ❤

    • @jhonjacson798
      @jhonjacson798 2 года назад +4

      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.

  • @Wbjpen
    @Wbjpen 2 года назад +44

    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.

  • @craighamaimbo844
    @craighamaimbo844 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @noahlupu5719
    @noahlupu5719 Год назад +11

    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

  • @erikebbing3701
    @erikebbing3701 2 года назад +8

    Listening to these lectures on repeat, so I can pull as much of the wisdom from them as possible. Never gets old!!

  • @wicklunda
    @wicklunda 3 года назад +55

    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!

    • @NodakBro
      @NodakBro 2 года назад +22

      Here you are my friend: ruclips.net/p/PLB5ShJRcpNFPz_2uazuT4XJ3yP3O4fH1H

    • @Mary-wb1nu
      @Mary-wb1nu 2 года назад +10

      @@NodakBro THANK U SO MUCH

    • @joo5070
      @joo5070 Год назад

      @@NodakBro God blees you, some kind stranger on the internet

    • @rjaph842
      @rjaph842 11 месяцев назад +1

      thank you

    • @TOHMASBARTRLT
      @TOHMASBARTRLT 7 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @DominicMotuka
    @DominicMotuka 4 года назад +16

    Wow! People pay top dollar for these types of lectures!!

  • @nightoftheworld
    @nightoftheworld 4 года назад +71

    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.”

    • @joseph-zoramcbride4029
      @joseph-zoramcbride4029 3 года назад +3

      That sounds promising. Though I wish you would apply the same charitable reading when examining Foucault.

  • @samd8016
    @samd8016 3 года назад +22

    Every person on earth should be hearing these amazing lectures.

    • @lukedavis6711
      @lukedavis6711 2 года назад +3

      Unfortunately some peoples minds dont have the capacity to start the engine

    • @TristanThompsonCompilationBros
      @TristanThompsonCompilationBros 2 года назад +1

      @@lukedavis6711 most*****

    • @joemcdermott1213
      @joemcdermott1213 2 года назад +2

      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.

    • @freedomfighter6838
      @freedomfighter6838 2 года назад

      @@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…

  • @jon_______
    @jon_______ 3 года назад +9

    Michael Sugrue, I hope your team can share with you that people like me on RUclips 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.

  • @SHIBBYiPANDA
    @SHIBBYiPANDA 3 года назад +13

    This man has great stage presence that emanates honestly from his passion for the philosophy.

  • @restashore7146
    @restashore7146 3 года назад +4

    I get wiser after every Michael Sugrue video

  • @apian29
    @apian29 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for sharing these for free ❤

  • @andrewbacon8811
    @andrewbacon8811 7 месяцев назад +1

    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 RUclips. I await the Philosopher King (Tyrant).

    • @markmarz
      @markmarz 5 месяцев назад

      Irony? Yeah, I don't understand your point. Explain the irony. If you will deign to condescend to one less brilliant than yourself.

  • @Thom3748
    @Thom3748 3 года назад +14

    What is amazing is the breadth and depth of Sugrue's knowledge and understanding of philosophy. He packs a lot in a fast delivery!

  • @TolaRat
    @TolaRat 3 года назад +11

    + 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!! 🙏

  • @attentionsparkbiz
    @attentionsparkbiz 3 года назад +72

    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!

    • @Kal-el95
      @Kal-el95 2 года назад +5

      Sorry to bug you but I'd like to know what you read for your bachelor's and what college you got admitted to

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 года назад +1

      @@Kal-el95 Creepy stalker

    • @bernardreinhart6828
      @bernardreinhart6828 Год назад

      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.

  • @LoudandClearChastity
    @LoudandClearChastity 11 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @veronikaalekyan
    @veronikaalekyan 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’m so happy I found these lectures. I was so reluctant to listen yo Jordan Peterson

  • @notsorrystory
    @notsorrystory Год назад +4

    Been depressed and this is nice to listen to. Makes the brain work while still being a nice distraction haha

  • @snakir
    @snakir 9 месяцев назад

    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!

  • @danielhailemariam6014
    @danielhailemariam6014 3 года назад +20

    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!

  • @temitope6830
    @temitope6830 4 года назад +45

    Thank you so much for not just creating this Chanel but being consistent with your content. May God bless you

    • @samd8016
      @samd8016 3 года назад

      There s no god. It does not exist. It is a lie.

  • @mylesunderwood979
    @mylesunderwood979 2 года назад +9

    Wow. A truly incredible professor.

  • @Dino_Medici
    @Dino_Medici Год назад

    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

  • @Freesia-gi4yj
    @Freesia-gi4yj Год назад +3

    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.

  • @aleckscott
    @aleckscott 3 года назад +13

    Dr. Sugrue's lectures are definitely the best - his presentation solid, his words remarkable - and greatly appreciated by this layman in particular. Thank you!

  • @michaelprenez-isbell8672
    @michaelprenez-isbell8672 4 года назад +54

    Big fan of Prof Sugrue, first bought these lectures in 1992! Looking forward to release of the Gadamer lecture.

    • @migueladrianvalevelazquez8703
      @migueladrianvalevelazquez8703 4 года назад +2

      Where can I buy them

    • @nightoftheworld
      @nightoftheworld 4 года назад +3

      Miguel Vale Not sure they sell them anymore. You may have to ask for or find second hand copies to get them..

    • @dosumuopeyemi6999
      @dosumuopeyemi6999 3 года назад +2

      I'm also a big fan of His work. Professor Sugrue is up there with Thomas Sowell

    • @biniamabrha191
      @biniamabrha191 2 года назад

      where can i get the full lecture>?

    • @pendejo6466
      @pendejo6466 2 года назад +1

      1992? Get out of here!

  • @Deadnature
    @Deadnature 3 года назад +13

    Honestly one of the best teachers on western philosophy. I'm so grateful this is free on youtube. Thank you Michael!

    • @Sunfried1
      @Sunfried1 3 года назад +3

      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.

    • @joemcdermott1213
      @joemcdermott1213 2 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @shreddez
      @shreddez 2 года назад

      RUclips comment sections

    • @Devansh-nu4qw
      @Devansh-nu4qw 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@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.

    • @NobleVagabond2552
      @NobleVagabond2552 4 месяца назад

      Jordan Peterson is an excellent psychologist but a terrible philosopher, also it seems the comment that originally brought him up is gone

  • @SurgeonSuhailAnwar
    @SurgeonSuhailAnwar 3 года назад +6

    Awesome talk - no fancy stuff , no gizmos - just pure unadulterated simple delivery of knowledge

  • @cheyennenew5177
    @cheyennenew5177 3 года назад +11

    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

  • @johnnypingsmusic
    @johnnypingsmusic 9 дней назад

    I am grateful to begin my second intake of these magnificent lectures, thank you once again for sharing with us

  • @SunSnowGravity
    @SunSnowGravity 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @mattayoubi9829
    @mattayoubi9829 2 года назад +1

    I am enthralled. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.

  • @havefunbesafe
    @havefunbesafe 2 года назад +2

    AS good as it gets!!!! Bravo Dr. Sugrue.

  • @itsawonderfullife4802
    @itsawonderfullife4802 4 года назад +28

    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.

    • @muneebpullani8539
      @muneebpullani8539 2 года назад

      Its only 30 lectures here on RUclips. Where can I find rest of the 60 lectures?

    • @sirbernardwoolley7789
      @sirbernardwoolley7789 2 года назад +2

      ruclips.net/p/PLez3PPtnpncT3FVrZqrLGllGpOf4HXJFh Here you go

    • @Themistoclees
      @Themistoclees 2 года назад

      @@sirbernardwoolley7789 Thank you for this!

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 года назад +1

      @@muneebpullani8539 You can only buy secondhand

    • @vaishnaviprasad2051
      @vaishnaviprasad2051 2 года назад

      @@thadtuiol1717 where can I find the rest of the lectures ??

  • @allyourbase888
    @allyourbase888 3 года назад +3

    This is a beautifully rich, concise and vibrant lecture. I’m enthralled by the fact that this is the first in 60+.

  • @johndoe-lz3zu
    @johndoe-lz3zu Год назад +1

    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

  • @ddevvnnull198
    @ddevvnnull198 Год назад

    We are so lucky to be learning from his lectures like this. May God bless him.

  • @bruh-dg3te
    @bruh-dg3te 4 года назад +34

    I love these lectures!

  • @slavabrodetskiy597
    @slavabrodetskiy597 2 года назад +2

    Sugrue and Staloff changed my life

  • @Over-Boy42
    @Over-Boy42 7 месяцев назад

    This is excellent! It takes courage to not only know to uphold your convictions but also challenge them.

  • @thefleecer3673
    @thefleecer3673 3 года назад +7

    I love the way you keep the language simple, it makes these concepts so much more accessible, great work 👍

    • @joemcdermott1213
      @joemcdermott1213 2 года назад +1

      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.

    • @bernardreinhart6828
      @bernardreinhart6828 Год назад

      true in many instances but not exhaustive; it depends on your definition of “simple” language.

  • @hamburgertrain6
    @hamburgertrain6 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for this, Mr. Sugrue.

  • @roahboah
    @roahboah 3 года назад +2

    I'm so grateful you have shared these with everyone. I appreciate you. Thank you, Dr. Sugrue.

  • @MrDavidbr1970
    @MrDavidbr1970 2 года назад +1

    This channel is criminally under-subscribed.

  • @TheCrazykicks07
    @TheCrazykicks07 2 года назад +1

    Fantastic lecture. Let us not be deficient in any of our understandings in philosophy. Action is the true showing of our understanding.

  • @username1235400
    @username1235400 3 года назад +2

    Thank you, Prof Sugrue. Just awesome 👏

  • @banti7308
    @banti7308 2 года назад +1

    I am amazed and deeply appreciative of his clarity in the lecture. Thank you.

  • @robbiehenderson9582
    @robbiehenderson9582 2 года назад +4

    This guy is amazing! No notes, wow impressed. I'm rolling up my sleeves and getting ready to learn me some philosophy for sure.

  • @1abdelrahmanwael
    @1abdelrahmanwael 6 месяцев назад

    Wow. The value of this is priceless

  • @hussaindar844
    @hussaindar844 Год назад +2

    Knowledge with energy ❤

  • @LordYanSpeaks
    @LordYanSpeaks Год назад

    A really refreshing material in these dark times of plain stupidity.

  • @AjNotsri
    @AjNotsri 2 года назад

    Thank you for your work Professor. These videos have awoken a passion I thought had died within me.

  • @keithdunlap
    @keithdunlap Год назад +2

    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.

  • @templephantom6613
    @templephantom6613 2 года назад +3

    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.. :)

  • @justordinaryguy1988
    @justordinaryguy1988 Год назад +1

    What a great teacher!

  • @quietprofessional4557
    @quietprofessional4557 4 года назад +8

    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
      @panagiotisatmatzidis9972 2 года назад

      Can you share info on the pshychology course you took? Is it available online?

    • @quietprofessional4557
      @quietprofessional4557 2 года назад

      @@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.

  • @penguinatedthings305
    @penguinatedthings305 2 года назад

    I'm learning a lot by watching your lectures. Thank you.

  • @WisdomisPower-10inminute-dn5no
    @WisdomisPower-10inminute-dn5no 11 месяцев назад

    I find these discussions inspiring, much like the conversations we've been having on my channel around similar topics.

  • @MistahKurtz1979
    @MistahKurtz1979 10 месяцев назад

    Just want to paying my respects to an amazing educator. RIP.

  • @danasheys9300
    @danasheys9300 2 года назад +1

    I think im addicted to these lectures

  • @nightoftheworld
    @nightoftheworld 4 года назад +8

    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.”

  • @SimonJHeath
    @SimonJHeath 2 года назад

    Dr. Sugrue, the best of the best.

  • @piotrmachay1936
    @piotrmachay1936 2 года назад

    Thank you for that magnificent gift

  • @johnparadise3134
    @johnparadise3134 3 года назад +3

    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.

  • @iLikeMyOwnPosts
    @iLikeMyOwnPosts 2 года назад +3

    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?

  • @iExamineLife
    @iExamineLife 2 года назад

    My deepest thank you for your teaching professor

  • @nareshdekkapati7709
    @nareshdekkapati7709 Год назад

    Sir, excellent lecture.keep these lectures in you tube forever for the future generation .today 13.9.23 India.

  • @elvissanchez8985
    @elvissanchez8985 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for these series!

  • @andytaylor3029
    @andytaylor3029 4 года назад +3

    Fantastic lecture as usual

  • @lorrainetang2785
    @lorrainetang2785 9 месяцев назад

    Incredible series!

  • @chrismcdaniel475
    @chrismcdaniel475 2 года назад +2

    This guy is awesome!

  • @arockpcb1347
    @arockpcb1347 3 года назад +7

    Outstanding scholar

  • @benperrin3433
    @benperrin3433 3 года назад +2

    Absolutely brilliant

  • @Buddy-cv3qx
    @Buddy-cv3qx Год назад +2

    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.

  • @jeromegoerke3403
    @jeromegoerke3403 2 года назад +2

    It would be very helpful if you could number the lectures so we know what follows what. Thank you for sharing this great resource.

  • @anthenehbeze.
    @anthenehbeze. Год назад

    I have no words. Incredible ❤❤❤❤

  • @TheNewSongwriters
    @TheNewSongwriters 2 года назад

    What a great, great, great teacher.

  • @vgmilo
    @vgmilo 3 года назад

    Just wanna say that I found these lectures recently and I've been blowing through them!
    Really good flow of speaking and very clear while also engaging

  • @alfredhitchcock45
    @alfredhitchcock45 2 года назад +3

    1. Aesthetics - Beautiful
    2. Ethics - Right and Wrong
    3: Politics - Level of Society

  • @berhemenseyda1383
    @berhemenseyda1383 2 месяца назад

    The kind of profs I need in University

  • @he_vysmoker
    @he_vysmoker Год назад

    Informative and most entertaining!

  • @atitsala9013
    @atitsala9013 4 месяца назад +1

    Love from India ❤❤

  • @butteredtoast8666
    @butteredtoast8666 3 года назад +2

    You can tell he's found his great love n life.

  • @sattendragupta
    @sattendragupta 5 месяцев назад +1

    Music to my ears

  • @kylemedeiros6907
    @kylemedeiros6907 3 года назад +2

    I am only this engaged when Jordan Peterson talks. Please take this as the highest of compliments. Back in school in 2 weeks.

    • @gerhitchman
      @gerhitchman 3 года назад

      What??

    • @swagg7109
      @swagg7109 3 года назад +2

      @@gerhitchman He is saying he only finds himself able to engage in this kind of content when it is espoused by Jordan Peterson, but he was able to engage with the lectures of Michael Sugrue. Meaning that conceptually he finds this man just as interesting and engaging as someone he regards highly. Basically its a compliment to M.Sugrue.

    • @jjkpolskeem
      @jjkpolskeem 3 года назад

      @@swagg7109 nah comparing peterson to sugrue cannot be a compliment in any way

  • @lusilverrr
    @lusilverrr 5 месяцев назад +1

    easily the best background. baby blue fancy room makes me feel weird and the dark blue curtains are too dark and blue

  • @visceral2483
    @visceral2483 10 месяцев назад +2

    Rest In Peace sir.