Dr. Sugrue is one of my favorite people on the planet.

"He has a great poker face in a society that doesn't have poker." A man ahead of his time.

Sprezzatura- The art of making philosophy understandable and relatable to regular joe's!

0:50 _The Book of The Courtier_ 1:50 Well Spoken, Deeply Learned 2:42 Expensively Dressed 4:57 A young woman asked a question Professor Sugrue did not know 6:04 Hidden Meaning 7:51 A Man Different from the facade he presents himself 8:24 He piggybacks 9:31 Spetzatora - Being Cool Confidence in the face of difficulty 11:24 Poker Face 11:57 Papal Nunzio 13:26 Papal Ambassador who is a man of prudence, deep thought 15:01 A Priest, Bishop, Author ✍🏻 Elaborate Spetzatora. *Whats going on here?* 15:55 A Memoir about S-x and Politics • The Duke is sick 🤒 17:20 Courtesy, Love, Hush 18:58 Why leave in a stupid joke? • _careful writing deserves careful reading_ 📖 20:23 Rat 🐀 Snake 🐍 21:50 Dutchess of Rebino Fox 🦊 23:01 Spetzatora (non-chalance, “he makes it look easy” ) 23:36 “A very sophisticated joke relys on a certain amount of dissimulation.” 24:03 Prudence • The Woman’s Reputation 25:53 Reflexivity • turning pre-suppositions back on themselves 26:43 Simile about metaphors 29:02 True Art 🖼 Is Unrevealed 29:42 Plausible Deniability 30:24 Careful with words 🦊 because seducers have to be 31:43 Seduced women are not blameworthy 32:17 A Good Courtier must be careful not to traduce a lady’s honor. 33:37 + Reliable + Quiet 34:42 No Kissing and Telling 35:33 Sympathy 💐 36:54 Memisis 37:25 A long and open conversation of Love. 2 lovers. Who is the other half?

Dr. Sugrue is a one of a kind individual. I hold this gentleman in as high of a regard as I hold my current professors here in academia. It is always a pleasure to visit his channel to take a break from coursework.

Never heard of Castiglione until now. Thanks for turning me onto him. I'll have to read his book.Thanks.

People come to your channel for a variety of reasons. Personally, I appreciate hearing the thoughts of an individual.

Started my morning with this video Going to be a good day today I appreciate you Dr. Sugrue

Thank you Maestro Sugrue.

If Dr. Sugrue's interpretation is correct (and I think it just might be), The Book of the Courtier is "a painting with a painting," a work of genius. Thank you for turning us onto it, professor; I'm sure I'd never have noticed it otherwise! From the book: "Practice in everything a certain nonchalance (sprezzatura) that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought."

This is kind of the new university.

You may not see this, but I love all your videos. Please keep contributing. You're making a positive difference in lives.

You have such a talent for making every single topic engaging. I could listen to one of these every single day and still feel like it's not enough. Thank you.

Mike gets younger, more wonderful, more expert, more informative every time he presents a lecture. He is yet better as he lectures twice on the same book (this one is in the Classics Revisited Series Webinar 2020). I think there is not a single book which he has not devoured and devoured to the bone. That's my feeling at any rate. Try to watch him as a young man lecturing in the early 1990's. It brings tears to one's eyes. Such a prodigy. As his colleague Darren Staloff put it in the '90's: Just put the camera in front of Mike and watch the magic happen."... Sic transit gloria mundi...

5:25 “Train thy tongue to say ‘I do not know!’”

Please don't stop. I discovered your stuff 2 days ago and gone through half your videos. You elucidate thing so clear.

Dear Sir, Ideally, you should live for atleast 1000 years for humanity's sake...instead of measly only 100 years. Precious and tremendous knowledge!!

Someone should write a book (or produce a movie?) about Michael Sugrue, and they should title it, "A Brilliant Mind." Good things are worth doing over.

Thank you for turning the wheel and continuing to educate young minds, even after you've already accomplished so much. You, sir, are a living legend. My 4 year old son quite enjoys your lecture video on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations; even if he doesn't understand much of it yet, the candor and passion in the way you teach is truly captivating. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for uploading these videos, they have helped me immensely and I'm sure will help thousands more to further our understanding of the world around us.

Thank You, Dr!

Thank you for this, I have never read about Castiglione. Professor Sugre you are the best. I have listened to most all your early lectures when you were younger, and continue because i know how much you love teaching. I remember that when one of your students ask that question and you had to think about it, that you did not know. Thank you❤️ Also the the last one about MACHIAVELLI I listened to last it time, and listened to the one when you were younger., The Principae 11, The Prince, I loved. I do want to read the plays, and the other book. I will have to go to the library for that. When I was young, my papa explained to people this, "When one knows , one doesn't know, and only when one doesn't know then and only then one may." I always tried to remember that in my quest for knowledge. Professor Sugre, you are looking, well I now found out you have 3 daughters, not just 1, so I much love to all of you. Yes sir , I vae a passion for reading, but as you said last time in your lecture on MACHIAVELLI, it is nice to learn about the political states of minds of these great philosophers, but I would never want to go into politics, maybe be aware of politics and assist those who has the ability to lead us for a better world. AFFECTIONATELY AND RESPECTFULLY. ❤️

looking good doc!

Thank you for introducing me to this illustrious author! Never heard about Castiglione before!

The breadth of your knowledge is matched in the depth of interpretation you bring to each individual work. Thank you

Thanks for posting all of your lectures and for continuing to create more. I love your delivery and I've learned so much from your channel.

what an amazing educator; know that all of your videos are invaluable, and your teachings will reach thousands. ❤️

Dr. Sugrue, thank you again for your wisdom and guidance. 🙏

Thanks for all the free lectures you provide. They’ve been helping me out a lot in achieving my personal study goals. I love that you went throughout the history of western philosophy. It’s been super interesting to go through. God bless you.

A very cool listen!

I’ve listened to this so many times. Thank you again professor and Gen.

Thank you so much for everything you upload. It’s all very appreciated and valued. I’ve started to look forward to your new uploads like a rich and meaningful conversation with an old friend. You’ve opened so many philosophical topics up to me that I would never have dared tread into alone. I’ve gained a much broader range of philosophical ideas to understand Western culture and myself/humanity and I’m looking forward to the pleasure of working my through more of the original texts in the future(with the confidence and context you have provided). My world view is much more balanced now too as I’ve entertained so many arguments counter to my own natural leanings. Thank you Professor Sugrue!

I live for the first ten seconds of these.

This is such an awesome channel. Your enthusiasm is cultivating a very helpful and gratuitous audience. Thanks for all of these.

Thank you, Dr. Sugrue!

SOMEBODY GET THIS MAN AN HD CAMERA

I consider Dr. Sugrue's phone ringing and refusal to edit out his idle chatter before the lecture begins to be supreme Sprezzatura. Bravo!

Again, I find myself immersed. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.

Looking healthy Prof. Sugrue! 🙌🏼

You made my day. Grazie, Prof. Sugrue

I love your lectures!!!! Thank you so much for providing this content to us!!!

Sugrue Sugrue we ❤️ you.

This is pure gold

Fascinating in every way.

Holy wow, what a fun lecture and a great and revealing interpretation. Have to get the book now. Thank you.

I just bought it from the thriftstore, what a coincidence!

Thanks doc!

Peace be with you brother! 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you Doctor.

absolutely amazing interpretation, and hilarious, thank you

This is so interesting! Thank you so much for these lecture videos!

Those bedroom eyes in that thumbnail got me.

Of course, a lot has been written about Castiglione's influence on Hamlet, whomever might have written it. Sounds like the "virgin" queen might have had a gander as well.

He has a great poker face in a society that doesn't have poker lol spot on.

Dr. Sugrue, your reading of the use of reflexive metaphors certainly captures just how crafty and subtle Castiglione could be in interpersonal dialogue. For some strange reason, and this is really a stupid observation, it made me think of Jeff Daniels's character in Dumber and Dumber, Harry Dunne, when he tells Lauren Holly's character, Mary Swanson, "Nice set of hooters you got there" at the owl preservation benefit dinner. When Mary says "I beg your pardon?" Dunne says, "The Owls; they're beautiful." The Farrelly brothers seemed to be toying with the instrument of reflexive metaphors in a perverted courtier-esque situation with that line of dialogue.

Thanks!

Great work Sir!

Dr. Sugrue, thank you for continuously sharing your knowledge with the world. If it is of interest to you, could you please make a video on Baltasar Gracian, a Spanish philosopher?

Loookin good prof!

I thought oh no how embarrassing, I've been saying “sprezzatura” all this time, but I looked it up and that is how you say it!

Thank you for the video i truly ❤them

I am buying this book!

excellent

"Women hate rats, but love snakes." One possible interpretation, in line with Castiglione's strong principles of protecting a woman's honor above all else, could be that rats are snitches, tattle-tales, and indiscreet. Snakes, on the other hand, are sneaky and most importantly, silent. A seducer who "rats" about his affairs is to be hated and despised. Yet, a seducer who is a snake, quiet and stealthy, may be safe to love.

You should do a lecture on Leo Strauss!

I would love… LOVE to hear you lecture on JRR Tolkien, whom I consider one of the last romantics.

Professor, do you have lectures on Jung? Thank you.

it stopped before the end again. this time on a cliff hanger

Would be cool to see more Plato content 😳😳😳

Why aren’t current philosophers as influential?

What a way to end a lecture. "Who's the other half?"

Everybody knew over the course of a few centuries what a rat could bring, thus the reason it would be hated would be the commonest of sense.

nice

brilliant

Thanks

Regarding the joke on rats and snakes that PRofessor Sugrue mentions, in a Straussian interpretation, the joke satirizes people's tendency to engage in trivial conversations to avoid discussing deeper or uncomfortable topics. Fra Serafino's claim of having a secret explanation for why women dislike rats but like snakes symbolizes those in power asserting exclusive knowledge about complex social issues. This highlights the joke's critique of superficial social interactions and diversion from more important matters. This joke appears to be a play on words and humor based on the various interpretations of why people make fools of themselves in different situations. In the beginning, there's a group of people playing a game, and they're all talking and laughing. Each person in the group mentions something that they've made a fool of themselves over, such as "thinking," "looking," or "loving." These statements suggest that people often do foolish things when they engage in these activities. Then, a character named fra Serafino suggests a different game. He proposes that everyone in the group try to explain why it is that most women dislike rats but are fond of snakes. He claims that nobody will be able to guess the reason except for himself because he learned the secret in a peculiar way. The humor in this joke comes from the absurdity of the proposed game and the expectation that fra Serafino has some special insight into why women feel this way about rats and snakes. It's a humorous twist on the idea that people can be foolish in their attempts to explain things, and it leaves the reader or listener curious about what fra Serafino's explanation might be. The punchline is that the reason is likely to be as nonsensical as the game itself, adding an element of absurdity and irony to the joke.

Was this cut short by accident? It seems as though you might have had something more to say. Although I did enjoy the rather abrupt ending.

look for castiglione lecciones de birra in youtube

Is there a possibility to have a discussion on the works of Confucious or the Doctrine of the Mean? Thank you for these discussions.

Dr. S. could do voiceovers

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Okay... I just watched this whole thing... after a Captain Kangaroo episode. I'm bonkers.

Its Marla Maples.

Can you please clean your webcam lense...if that is the issue of why it's so blurry...I feel like I'm looking though a 1970s television screen lmao 🤣

@10:42 the return of the oxsimeron oxymoron!

spRessatura....

Isn't the joke "almost all women hate rats and love snakes, " about types of men? Its certainly a very naughty joke.

You ruined my life. Now I'm plotting to infiltrate the government.

Doc, you are in serious need of a lighting, camera and set upgrade. This level of content should have some degree of professional presentation to accompany it.

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Why aren’t current philosophers as influential?