The GOAT! Prof. Sugrue. Can't express how grateful I am for the content you've made available for everyone. Ty !

It is both an honor and a privilege to be able to listen to Dr. Sugrue ruminate on virtually anything, let alone a timeless classic like Robinson Crusoe. I recall learning that you are a father yourself, so it seems appropriate to say happy Father's Day!

The return of the king. I could listen all day.

I have been listening to your lectures on philosophy and they are a delight. You are a learned, engaging speaker who I am very glad to be able to listen to. Thank you Dr.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to hear from Prof. Sugrue under any pretext. He’s an extremely articulate and intelligent individual who is a well spring of wisdom. He challenges you to see ideas from different perspectives that we may have never considered before. I’ve always been a fan of the adventure texts from the past and it’s interesting to see how he finds the kernels of knowledge and wisdom in these stories and makes you see the text in a completely different light. You can apply the ideas that this story conveys in everyday life because there are so many facets to explore. Thank you Professor for your lecture.

These recent lectures have been great, can’t wait to hear the next one! Thanks 😊

2:10 He has dedicated years of thought to this. 3:55 Child: It’s An Adventure Story Scholar: It Captures The Age of Reason in 1 Novel Published 1719 An Allegory A symbolic microcosm of Human History 5:41 The Enlightenment view of World History Father: Live The Middle Way Robinson: Go on An Adventure 7:08 Portuguese Ship to Brazil 🇧🇷 Sells his runaway friend to The Boat Captain Calculation, Diary, Quantity make up his way of life 8:35 Locke’s Natural Obligations 10:32 Hubris, Herbs, Alcohol _Temperance_ 13:39 5 Years Carving a Canoe 15:28 Teaches Parrot To Talk 🦜 16:10 Cannibals Take a life to Save a life? 17:31 Crusoe’s Servant named Friday 18:50 Pirates 🏴‍☠️ Labor Theory of Value 20:06 Returns To London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Friday Suddenly Dies No Mourning Charles Dickens disappointed!! 😢 22:25 Shows how THE WEST understood itself. Age of Reason in a Literary Form. The Novel. *Question and Answer* 24:18 Animals in Robinson Crusoe Internal Religious Belief - Job The Ship - Western Intellectual Tools 27:52 Savagery Crusoe and Defoe are ok with Slavery 28:57 Plenty of prior generations were brought up on it, they didn’t have the thoughts (current standard thinking) does 31:23 Don’t Stray, Prodigal Son 36:46 Religious Belief is Pre-Rational 38:09 Scientific Revolution 39:21 His name is Friday. Why? 42:45 Parse Yourself Reader, Your World Author, Their World Don’t lose Perspective 45:27 Lacks Emotion Stories can have beneficial side-effects

He cries when Rex dies! Thank you for this great presentation.

Thank you, Dr.Sugre. I was fortunate enough to have a had a brother who loved books as I did as much as I did as a small child. Subsequently, he was 10 years older than me. Plus , my papa who had a flourishing library with every book imaginiable to read. Thankfully, the imagery of this book was discussed thoroughly in our home. I was about 8 years old and was devastated. Unfortunately,I was because I was having problems in school as I would stand up for my black friends who, at that point, had not been allowed to enter our elementary school. These were the early sixties in the south. It was a heartbreaking experience for me. I did not appreciate Robinson Caruso's novel too much early in my life as I understood much as to what you just pointed out so eloquently. The older I got, the more I appreciated the merits of his work. Thank you for this discussion. ❤

Great lecture as always. Hope this channel keeps growing

Great lecture! Looking forward to the course this may :)

It would be great to hear Dr. Sugrue's critique of The picture of dorian gray

@KaiTheAndragogist

Жыл бұрын

Seconding a request for Wilde!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on Thomas Pynchon. Any book, especially the more difficult ones.

@BardSonic

2 жыл бұрын

Even more interesting would be a philosophical discussion on the present value of particular segments of the reading population in valuing the difficult or the transgressive as an aesthetic goal.

@kishorekrishnadas5541

Жыл бұрын

Pynchon and D. Foster Wallace would be an cream dream.

@kishorekrishnadas5541

Жыл бұрын

@@BardSonic It's called, "terrorism" and it's nothing new.

@BardSonic

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@@kishorekrishnadas5541 elaborate

@kishorekrishnadas5541

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@@BardSonic Excuse the long reply; been busy. I'm engaged in a kind of simplification of terms. I believe you're doing the same. I think that when you can get to, "I believe in a basic idea of truth and I believe this ultimately guides society" that the question of the embrace of the difficult or transgressive becomes a question of whether or not it's morally right for a bookish few to use political violence (or call it, "severe social action") when you, "reduce the terms;" Ultimately (following from Sugrue) I'm being tounge-and-cheek; it's really a matter of what intellectual tradition you stem from (I; English and not very prudent!). The Humian-Burkian tradition will ere on the side of maintaining the current social order. It's from this angle I make my comment. At the end of the day we deal with the world as it is and not how we'd like it to be. I think what's been missing in this is, "the real reality of how I'd realistically like to see the real world as an objective fact about minds." Rhetorical question: Was May 68 a success? For whom? The Left? The Gaullists? The Establishment?

I like the Dr. Stone anime. Seems like a similar genre.

I have not figured out how to participate in the live meetings. Please let me know how to do so.

How can we donate ?

Crusoe experienced two years of miserable slavery, He was concerned about the fate of the slave boy but heartened by the captain who pledged to give the boy his freedom after 10 years. Crusoe recognizes that he was blessed, my word, by two noble, honest captains. Sugrue glosses over the first great chapter’s great advice about the cruel world. Sugrue is not such a deep thinker.

It really does get beyond tiresome to be constantly hearing the self righteous criticism about traditional literary texts. It unhelpfully distracts from time that could be better spent gleaning out the genuinely literary aspects of the text. It's a loss to everyone involved. If someone is so concerned about slavery and the role of women in society then perhaps they would do better to write their own book about those things rather than try and destroy a valid literary process. The idea of banning books and reading everything through the lense of race and gender is simplistic, shallow and - self righteous. It is also incredibly dangerous.

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Dang he got big

@BardSonic

2 жыл бұрын

Go big or go home. This man is a treasure.

@divinegon4671

2 жыл бұрын

He’s earned it

@cheri238

10 ай бұрын

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.