“Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s travels is arguably the most savage thing ever written in the English language....”😂😂😂

@dustinhourihan6201

3 ай бұрын

Apparently the professor has never played games online ... just saying

"Drown the world; I am not content with despising it!" Unfathomably based.

As per usual, I kid myself that I'll take a sneak peek at the beginning and end up watching the whole thing. So good!

@mehmetgok1975

5 күн бұрын

Isn't that the rule of thumb that we are facing a genius?

Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯 I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎

@colleencupido5125

3 жыл бұрын

"Intellectual jewel" is right on... Which philosophy book was my first? Plato, and I started with Apology. Why? Professor Sugrue's course on Plato in the mid 1990s. Then there's Pro. Solomon's s lecture on Anger from a Teaching Co./ Great Courses series where he describes one of his favorite books on philosophy... Alice in Wonderland. Especially the mouse's tail which ends with the line "I am judge and I am jury, said cunning old Fury." PS: It's because of this lecture that I read "Gulliver's Travels" back in the 90's. A children's book? Yeah, the same was Animal Farm is a children's book...

@mehmetgok1975

5 күн бұрын

@@colleencupido5125 In one video Dr. Sugrue says "There is no children's book here." which made me smile thus I wanted to add.

@mehmetgok1975

5 күн бұрын

Thomas Jefferson once said: "If you find an intellectual than ask what books he or she reads first."

Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him. 10/10 without music 20/10 with epic music

@dr.michaelsugrue

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words.

Whoever is uploading these, thank you!!

These uploads make my day, thank you!

Always happy to see a new lecture!

Thank you, Prof Sugrue for this great lecture.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing :)

Lilliput 15:26 Brobdingnag 22:20 Laputa 28:54 Glubbdubdrib 38:17 Luggnagg 42:15 Houyhnhnms 44:30

@leonstenutz6003

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this index.

This is an excellent lecture, as are your others, Dr. Sugrue. I say that despite the difference in temperament between yourself and Swift which makes you find much of his satire somewhat off-putting. Like Swift, I have a rather dark sense of humor, and _A Modest Proposal_ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s rare for me to burst out laughing when I read something, even something that’s quite funny. But with _A Modest Proposal,_ I just couldn’t restrain myself.

Thank You!

I really love this videos. You, sir, are a great teacher!

Keep it coming!

Beautifully presented.

Thank you.

Well I guess I’ll be reading Gulliber’s Travels again.

We seem to be beyond satire now. We live in Lilliput.

Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well. Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British Satarist, Dean and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin. I love Jonathan Swifts books. The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy. "The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!

No automatic subscription makes the video a bit difficult to understand. PS：big fan from China.

@obladioblada6932

2 жыл бұрын

Same here in Brazil. I wonder why does that happens.

Good old Jonathan would have either gone bananas in our world or created the Jon Swift Show and beaten George Carlin at ratings.

I needed to pass some time & knew this would be interesting. It was. The only disappointment I have with this video series is that each video comes to an abrupt end before I am ready for it to end.

Never read the whole book but My whole life was a lie assuming Gulliver's travels a children's book!

@cheri238

6 ай бұрын

What? Your kidding right? Have you ever read anything by Hans Christian Anderson? "Alice in Wonderland."

caption and transcript make understanding easily

I'm a cat-person because cats have value. I'm not a people-person, I'm just a person.

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

Imagine Swift in a COD lobby

At the big end??? Where are these bastards!? 😂 19:22

Could someone forward this video to Steven Pinker? Thanks!

42:20

Please tell me, how come this has been uploaded today but looks like it was taped in 1988 ?

@dr.michaelsugrue

3 жыл бұрын

The videos on this channel are from the lecture archives of Dr. Sugrue.

@dubthedirector

Жыл бұрын

What, there was a world before the internet?

3:20

Again Woody Allen is mentioned here :)

@Laocoon283

Жыл бұрын

He's my personal favorite child molester. Top 3 fasure

One gets the feeling that Swift didn't have a real great grasp of history or historical figures, if he thinks our ancestors were more virtuous.

No, no, no ... Literature IS the voice of truth and wisdom. Philosophy? Not so much....

Only true idealists (not necessarily the self-righteous, by the way) can ever become such cynical misanthropes--totally understandable and touchingly pathetic.