30 year old pretty much uneducated ex junkie here I quit watching Netflix and dumb movies I’ve seen a million times i watch sugrue lectures on repeat even if I’ve heard them before . Was never interested in academics but this guy turns history and philosophy into a very accessible, entertaining , and throughly thought provoking experience . Love this guy . Makes me wanna go back to school!!! Thanks Mike!!! Life changing knowledge here

@nightoftheworld

3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah my friend, former cynical idiot here. Look up Slavoj Zizek as well. He is a much more hyperactive and neurotic professor, but his ideas especially regarding psychoanalysis and religion opened up an entire new world. Rick Roderick is also another amazing prof. on here who is very inspiring. To be a totally shameless self-promoter, I made a short super cut of them all on here because of the gift their lectures have given to me. No other way to pay it forward than to spread their gospel of scholasticism.

@mysterioso2006

2 ай бұрын

@@nightoftheworld oh cool ill have to check that out actually! thanks for making that info more accessible

@alittax

Ай бұрын

Congratulations on your interest! I've saved a list of other related channels like this one. If you're interested, I can paste them here.

RIP Prof Sugrue: from one Michael to another.

Nothing compares to you, Dr Sugrue. Remarkable mind.

Brilliant, love your teaching style. You put life into the Greek Classics that transform them into our current reality.

Thank you again, Professor Sugre. At least my heart is still on the comments. ❤ I hope you are feeling better. I pay for channels, and technology erases them in my comments. I still have ears and eyesight to read. Thank you again.❤

Sir, thank you so much! I learn so much listening to you. 🙏

I'm a philosophy undergrad at a UK university who switched course from Classics. Philosophy took my heart, but I also loved the myths and philosophers most of the Ancient world. I love my course and watching/ listening to Prof. Micheal Sugrue's lecture first thing in the morning with my cup of tea as I get ready for the day, and I make sure to share the vidoes that I think would be interesting and benefit my mother who is an avid listener of many admirable teachers and informers. Thank you for these videos, it gives me a newfound confidence in my lectures to share different ideas of yours and questions of mine that come from them.

Never sleeps! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the us Dr. Sugrue.

Thank you, Professor Sugre, for your lectures. With much love for the New Year 2024. Today is New Years Eve. Many blessings!!!🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

Dearest Teacher Michael, what a Glory !... You make me Love what I Know and Know what I Love. Ι don't forget Αισχχύλος who says in "Προμυθεύς Δεσμώτης", that the new Master is rough. Also John Coltrane! A Greek friend, Demetrios Maniates.

*Prometheus* 0:23 The Myth of Prometheus 1:27 The Ancient Prophecy "the gods will be overthrown" 2:12 Pushing The Envelope. Optimism about Human Nature. 2:45 Hubris and Self-Destruction. *Homer* 3:35 _The Illiad_ and _The Odyssey_ , Epics written by Homer. 4:27 Homer creates The Ideals of Greek Culture _The Illiad_ *Achilles* 5:55 Achilles is 1-Dimensional. 6:27 The Illiad opens with a Conflict. 7:32 Where can we find human excellence? On The Battlefield. 8:10 Achilles is Impulsive, he lacks self-control. 12:23 Achilles is eloquent from the fact he says everything he believes. 15:20 Achilles won't work with Agamemnon anymore. 16:09 Achilles feels disrespected. 16:42 Achilles is basically walking out on The Trojan War. 20:18 Achilles will listen to the Greek Ambassadors, Nestor, Phoenix, Odysseus, and Ajax. 21:42 Achilles is not a complicated person. 22:06 Achilles body and mind are simple and sincere. A Primitive Combination of Action and Thought. 24:58 Achilles listens to what the Ambassadors has to say. 25:33 Achilles does not care about wealth, he cares about Kalos, about Glory! 26:46 Achilles has a few mental states - If you Insult Achilles, Achilles will leave the battle. - If you anger Achilles, Achilles will kill whoever angers him. 28:16 Achilles does not accept bribes. 28:54 Achilles _"Oh how I hate like the gates of Hades itself, a man who thinks one thing and says another."_ 29:36 Achilles finds lies baffling. Achilles has not told a lie in his life. What you see is what you get. 30:15 "I hate the liar." 31:29 A Liar has to have 2 things in the head at the same time, (1) The Real Fact of The Matter (which you are obscuring) and (2) The Verbal Account of The Matter which is not the case (a crafty lie). 32:31 Achilles is surrounded by people who say 1 thing and think another. Achilles is a 1-thought-at-a-time man kinda guy. 33:38 _"What would it be like to have another man's experience?"_ 34:52 What would it be like.... *Agamemnon* 8:57 Agamemnon. 9:57 Agamemnon takes a slave girl. 10:38 Agamemnon needs to give the slave girl back or Apollo will reign down arrows. *Athena, The Goddess of War and Wisdom* 11:42 The Goddess Athena came down to restrain Achilles. 13:18 The idea here is we are creating the Ideal Greek man. *Greek History* 14:04 1500-1400 BC The Greeks are like pirates. 14:20 Then, they find advantageous islands, and start to trade, which is more lucrative than raiding. *Odysseus* 14:30 The New Hero, Odysseus 19:18 Odysseus will be one of the men who tries to win Achilles back into Fighting. 30:30 Liar 35:15 Odysseus has Whit. 37:00 Odysseus looks at things in a calculating way. 37:55 Odysseus Hubris with The Cyclops offends Poseidon. 39:25 Odysseus Odyssey strips down and rebuilds Odysseus. 40:10 *What do warriors stand for? What makes a hero?* 40:50 It is unholy to vaunt over the bodies of the dead. *Hector, Leader of The Trojan Army* 17:20 Hector defeats The Greeks many times. *Nestor, The Wise Advisor of The Greek Army* 17:58 Nestor encourages The Greek Leaders to get Achilles Back on The Greek Army's Side. 19:18 Nestor will be one of the men who tries to win Achilles back into Fighting. 30:30 Liar _Versions of The Greek Hero_ 22:55 Version 1.0 of The Greek Hero is Achilles, The Simple-Thinking Super-Strong Warrior. 35:15 Version 2.0 of The Greek Hero is Odysseus, The Crafty, Intelligent, Strategist Leader. 41:17 Version 3.0 of The Greek Hero is Socrates, The Knowledgeable Philosopher who Improves The Lives of Those He Speaks With. A Warrior of Truth and Virtue. *Prium* 33:48 43:04 There are limits to what you can do with language. 43:14 You need a Flash of Insight. 43:30 Read Plato's Republic. 44:23 The Republic is A Life-Changing Book. 44:57 Republic Outline on Michael Sugrue's Substack. 45:22 Read The Peripheral Readings. It will allow you to take on what may be the greatest book ever written. 46:13 Plato's 7th Letter. Greatest Metaphysical Ideas: Forms. 46:39 Plato's 7th Letter "Look beyond" 47:08 Tragedy, Comedy, Physics. 47:26 The Invention of Natural Science. _The History of The Natural World_ 48:18 Rationality. Smartness. 48:46 The First Scientific Revolution caused a corresponding revolution in all other domains of Culture: Religion, Politics, Ethics, Law, Literature, History, Social Science. 49:14 Re-Reading The Republic for the 51st time. 49:38 Congratulations! I'm happy that you're here. Goodnight, Goodbye for a while.

My early week now has deeper purpose. Thank you.

Learning never sleeps

Thank you Professor ! Almost like a healthy evolution of the individual. From the adolescent bravado, arrogance and stubborness and after the trials and motions of life we enter our Socratic phase where the ripeness of thought and plurality of experience have made us realize, the best we can hope for to try to understand the world around us, is to ask the right questions.

Freshman year the only thing I enjoyed was reading the Iliad and the Odyssey. Thank you for reminding me Professor ....Cheers.

So thrilled to have stumbled upon your channel, thank you so much for your work, Professor! Your lectures bring me such joy!

God bless this man.

Glad to stumble upon this early in the morning

I would love to translate these lectures to portuguese. They're so enlightening...

Very much appreciated. Thank you.

We need not imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger as Achilles- we already have Brad Pitt.

Thank you professor!!! Your lessons are truly a gift from god

Michael has this uncanny ability to make me laugh hilariously at violent and grim depictions by highlighting it's absurdity in the most dry and understated manner- his ancestors must be British.

@RNCM_Philosophy

5 ай бұрын

He's Irish in descent!

@mountainjay

5 ай бұрын

@@RNCM_Philosophy There you go!

Dr Sugrue discusses a project and series of lectures to be accompanied by readings through substack at the end of this video. He discusses a sense of revelatory understanding he achieved on Plato's Republic at 20. How can we access these readings? Because it will be my life's aim to uncover the truths that his death left unsaid.

RIP brother!

thanks for what you taught us

I can’t help but notice the other break down and live chat videos posted previously on on this topic innthe channel; has this course on the Republic already happened, or is this a 2024 plan? Either or is great, I enjoy the content and learning immensely

I may give The Iliad yet one more try under the guidance of this lecture.

At 27:45, Achilles is protected by the river Lethe, and not the river Styx?

I always think it’s interesting that Dante never had access to read Homer so he puts Odysseus in the lowest part of hell because he was a trixter with the Trojan horse

I think all Indo-European origin religions have this concept of overthrowing gods....

An American intellectual hero summa cum laude. RIP Dr. Sugrue

❤

What if the Greeks were correct & Socrates did corrupt the youth, but, instead of Plato & the young aristocrats, he corrupted the young Western civilization with his metaphysics, allegories, & belief in the realm of the Forms?

Women just love travel™ so it makes sense they prefer The Odyssey.

i dont like the portrait of Achilles although i like your insights very much. i would like for you to think about the 3 heros as the necessary spirits of war peace and management for life. neither Achilles nor Odysseus are fit to rule but both are necessary to take over and understand nature and mankind. Socrates is proposed to be the establishment that builds upon the 2 heros before him. a society that is beyond fighting for survival and that already found the pillars of a cohesive community.