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

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

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

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.

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!

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.”

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?

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

The amount of clarity woven throughout these lectures is astounding.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

+ 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!! 🙏

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

Every person on earth should be hearing these amazing lectures.

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!

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

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

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

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

I get wiser after every Michael Sugrue video

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

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

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

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!

Sugrue and Staloff changed my life

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!

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

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.

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 KZfaq. I await the Philosopher King (Tyrant).

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.

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

Wow. A truly incredible professor.

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

Wow. The value of this is priceless

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

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

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

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.

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.

This channel is criminally under-subscribed.

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.”

I love these lectures!

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.

Thank you so much for these series!

Thank you, Prof Sugrue. Just awesome 👏

Thank you for this, Mr. Sugrue.

I am enthralled. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.

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.

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

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

I have no words. Incredible ❤❤❤❤

Thank you for that magnificent gift

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

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

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

What a great, great, great teacher.

Dr. Sugrue, the best of the best.

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

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

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

Knowledge with energy ❤

Rest In Peace, Professor.

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

Thank you so very much.

Incredible series!

Absolutely brilliant

My deepest thank you for your teaching professor

This guy is awesome!

Fantastic lecture as usual

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.. :)

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

always enjoyable.

Informative and most entertaining!

Great stuff!

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

What a great teacher!

Passionate lecture.

Fantastic.

Rest In Peace sir.

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

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

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

Outstanding scholar

Excellent!

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

Anybody watched a current video of dr sugrue? You wouldn't recognize him. He's likely 150 lbs heavier and his voice has turned gravelly and raspy, likely the result of decades of smoking. I'm not knocking him. Not in the least. I adore this man's tutelage and have learned much from him.

I love this man

Very very very good lecture.

I think im addicted to these lectures

Top class!

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.

Brilliant!

My thanks to you.

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