"Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we are not what we could have been." Damn.

My favorite part of philosphy is everyone can participate. Im a very poor man and cannot afford school but having a cell phone allows me to watch lectures. Thanks for uploading these.

It's an absolute blessing that these lectures are available to ordinary people-my deepest gratitude!

Rest in peace professor. I just finished this lecture, which is the first I watched. I especially enjoyed the commentary from a Christian perspective.

As part of my personal growth I came to realise, I’m not nearly as intelligent as I thought I was. So lectures like these truly baffle and amaze me to see how well thought and deep some people philosophise and are able to share it in a way that others can understand it without having to go through that rabbit hole of thought. Thank you for sharing this lecture!

I'm the son of a poor cobbler who was raised in the streets of Alligator Town, Mississippi. I never received an education, and I started my cobbler apprenticeship when I was seven years old after my father died of measles. These videos have been a blessing and an absolute gift; since discovering them I have been granted a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship scholarship at Harvard and have achieved levels of enlightenment of which my family has never dared to dream. Cogito, ergo sum. Carthago delenda est.

KZfaq is a slightly less hostile place thanks to your channel, Michael. thanks

Back in college, I worked hard to study these. Now, I listen to your lectures to relax and focus. Your lectures help me get away from being distracted by distraction. Thank you!

Michael Sugre makes me want to re-live my life and dedicate it to learning.

• (Time Stamps) 3:55 - Ontology 5:35 - Heidegger’s issue with Ontology 6:31 - Plato’s view of being and our local understanding of it contrasted with our lack of understanding of it as a whole 7:52 - Heidegger’s approach to understanding “being” 8:45 - What it’s like to be Human 10:06 - What it is to be a Human Being 14:10 - Heidegger’s View of Being • (Interesting Assertions) 10:51- Man ought to Authentically “Be” 11:58 - To be a Human Being is to contextualize the world and attribute meaning to it 13:33 - I’m calling you back to yourselves 13:45 - “Being” not “being” has a strong homology to God 14:15 - Gospel story of the rich young man

What a brilliant lecturer. He was made to be a professor.

That closing line: “The silence of God.”

* Dr. Sugrue opens a jar of peanut butter * This jar of peanut butter is probably one of the most influential, important jars of peanut butter in perhaps the past decade; maybe even the last century.

This guy is probably the greatest expositor of Western philosophy now known to the world. Sorry. But as a lifelong collector and reader. I state that this really is off the scale stuff. The internet now brings a golden age of love. Learning. Enthusiasm. Heralded by guys like this.

Class act. Michael Sugrue is exemplary of what is best in the academic tradition-incisive criticism coupled with light heartened self knowledge. Brilliant lecture.

Michael Sugrue, I still remember the first lecture I ve seen, years ago. and i remember thinking " I wish I had a teacher like him in college.

All 50 lectures from the great minds of the western intellectual tradition were on KZfaq at one point, removed for copy right violation. It's so great to see Michael Sugrue back on KZfaq. I hope Darren Staloff uploads his lectures. I remember watching a great lecture he gave on Spinoza and freedom.

This was best lecture on Heidegger that helped me to understand and first lecture I watched by Michael Sugrue. RIP

What an absolute GIFT these lectures are to us. With the greatest sincerity, thank you so very much.

Studying Heidegger with the great Dr Joseph P. Fell was a spectacular highlight of my college career. It was completely mind-blowing. The excitement in the room was unforgettable. The validity of Heidegger's work was confirmed for me by the fact that he ultimately started to think in a way entirely compatible with the teachings of Buddha, the ultimate thinker. Both investigated the meaning of human life, and how to live, as deeply as they possibly could. "Do not let the little Beings of the world distract you from the big Being." Well put, Dr Sugrue.

This lesson is so comprehensible even for someone who's not a English speaker like me. And the conclusion of Heidegger is intriguing. One must be really lucky to be your student.

Professor many compliments for your great clarity! What a pleasure to listen!

That was phenomenal! Many blessings for sharing your gift with us all.

“We have an obligation to ourselves to become what we can.“ Amazing lecture on a very slippery subject. “Imagine trying to bite your own teeth.“ 🧐 Evolution seems to be pushing us towards distraction, but this obligation, in the end, is the greatest gift to ourselves as well as evolution itself.

"But I could be wrong" is a really great punchline catchphrase X)

I have just discovered this channel and I’m immensly happy that I did. Great lecture!

Very happy to see these on KZfaq and hopefully will find a wide audience. Your Plato lectures (which I bought more than a decade ago from TGC) changed my life: I started to learn Ancient Greek and started to read Plato seriously. THANK YOU for your brilliant light and guidance!

Marbelouse, these clear and nourishing lessons are just so very pleasant. Thanks for illustrating us and giving us such a good time.

‘An authentic confrontation with things you’d rather not think about.’ This is so enriching, thank you for uploading this

Thank you. Very informative. I admire your ability to carry on the lecture with such enthusiasm and undiminishing clarity.

Thank you, Dr Sugrue, for uploading these lectures

This is something! I have wAtched about 15 of your lectures and this one stands out in your indictment of the person at the center of topic being what I feel is the purpuse of the lecture.

Brilliant content my man! Concise, articulate and passionate.

I could never go to Princeton . I’m so deeply grateful for being able to hear Prof Sugrue on KZfaq

Thank you very much for sharing these lessons. Currently a student, it would amaze me like never before if my teachers had as much inspiration and passion put in their lessons. Witnessing thinking is the most enriching experience one can have.

23:55 Well, Dr. Sugrue must certainly have something meaningful to say about it now

Thank you for uploading all these great videos!

I think this is my all time favorite lecture on Heidegger. Truly amazing!

I discovered Professor Sugrue from this video. He has helped my understanding so much over the last few years. I am so dissapointed to learn of his passing. But what an incredible intellectual legacy this man has left behind. I sure do appreciate him and his contributions.

Michael, you are simply wonderful. I am in Calicut, Southern tip of India. In fact , I was in US from June 19 to September 19, 2019. I had visited Princeton Uni. My mother used often mention Princeton, since it was the institution which gave refuge and job to Einstein, when he escaped Nazi Germany. Einstein visited India in about 1937, on an invitation of CV.Raman, fame Raman effect. My mother was a student at American college, Madurai. and her chemistry professor took their batch to Madras to attend a public meeting held at Madras university. Michael's presentation is simple, shorn off jargon and quite understandable, and ipso facto superb. Hat's off to you, Sir. Advocate Victor Antony Noone.

"Death extinguishes all our possibilities, it does not exhaust all our possibilities"

You shed light on Heidegger for me. I am grateful.

"Definition of Nihilism: Speech that's indistinguishable from Silence" Wow!

Thank you so much for providing these lectures!

I absolutely love your lecture, your lecture on Marcus Aurelius changed my life!!!

I am so grateful that this lecture is online. What an absolute pleasure that we live in this world today. Just, so wonderful.

I have learned so much from these lectures. Thank you Dr. Sugrue

i feel happy and blessed that till now , 100,000 people are interested in this , it deserves more i know but at least people are still interested in such matters

I love when the professor says “I could be wrong”, when he really means “oh, I’m definitely right!” 😂

man.. after reading many books about existentialism, listening to dr. sugrue is one of the greatest joys.. because he distills these wholesome of fuzzy& blurred information with his wisdom so well that you become able to connect the dots in your mind.. thanks a lot !

This lecture is needed, in these modern times His ontological view is 💯💯💯

Life changing access to this brilliance and commitment. So completely absorbing !! The language for starters. Intellectually intimidating but all the more inspiring !!

Wow!. Clear and beautiful lecture. A work of art.

Thank you for uploading these.

LOVE having the old Great Minds lectures from the Teaching Company, again! This series went through several incarnations, with this one disappearing with the VHS/cassette tapes (I don' think it ever made it to DVD) When my local library phased out VHS tapes, I thought I'd never see them again! I do have the latest version, which is great, but I just loved Sugrue and these old timey ones. There's something about the analog recording, the simple sets and the longer lectures that brings me back to when I worked a menial job, unable to attend school, but wanting to learn as much as I could. I made it to college eventually and double-majored in philosophy, and these lectures paved the way for me. My professors were always impressed that I had knowledge and insight on the class material ahead of the readings.

I love the way Dr Sahib makes such complex n elusive ideas accessible to the lay learners like me. Indeed, words fall short to express my gratitude.

The description alone warrants praise.

It is truly a privilege to listen to this brilliant lecture…

Your lectures are amazing. Full stop. It would be great if these were uploaded as a podcast.

wonderful lecture. I will hear it repeatedly.

6:50 it strongly resonates with Adishankaracharya's quote:"just as fire cannot burn by itself ,,the self cannot be the object of its own knowledge"

Amazing lectures - beautiful and passionate!

Truly fascinating, thank you for making this

Chicago grad student Robert M. Pirsig wrote about two modes of being derived by Kant: the Classical (rational) and the Romantic (aesthetic). When those two things are in balance we have Quality (more or less a Platonic ideal). Before the duality of consciousness, there is Quality, but we are distracted by everyday existence. See Pirsig's book for a way of thinking about being. It was the philosophical best seller of the 20th Century, but given short shrift by academics.

39:44 _"What can you think about nothing? What can you say about nothing? Heidegger appears to suggest that you can say quite a bit, but it beats me what it amounts to..."_ Absolutely savage haha

Best and most comprehensive analysis of Heidegger I ve ever witnessed to. Many thanx!

I was lucky enough to have Dr David Depew as my teacher at cal state Fullerton. Thank you Dr Depew

An excellent exposition of "Being and Time".

The End of this lecture tops it off and makes it truly perfect.

"Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we're not who we could've been". Now that hits some messages back to my brain!

Thank you for uploading these lectures,

I like Heidegger's work. I love the thrills and chills, but it's also got a lot of heart. 5 bags of Popcorn.

I really enjoyed this for a number of reasons. I'm a fan of Dr. Michael Sugrue's lectures, not only because they are pregnant with richness and character, but also because when he criticizes an idea or thinker, it always has an undertone of biting humor. I hadn't noticed at first my smiling as he rounded out his polemic on Being And Time and Heidegger in general, things which I thought to myself when delving into Heidegger but that I chocked up to my own misunderstanding of a complex philosophy.

I always come back to this, plz upload more videos if possible

One of the very best lectures on the complexities of Heidegger

I could listen to Michael Sugrue's lectures all day and not get the last tired of them and I'm not even a philosophically-inclined person. I just love the cadence and flow of his words.

He made Heidegger accessible to me, I've been struggling to find a good entry point, thank you for sharing your knowledge and structure!

Sincere gratitude, for letting people like me know all this❤

Thank you for these lectures

Brilliant analysis and evaluation of Heidegger's thought. One must take a stand on his philosophy and not just regurgitate it. Before you criticize his antagonism toward Heidegger, consider Hannah Arendt's take on her former professor/lover in Heidegger the Fox: Once upon a time there was a fox who was so lacking in slyness that he not only kept getting caught in traps but couldn’t even tell the difference between a trap and a non-trap. … After he had spent his entire youth prowling around the traps of people … this fox decided to withdraw from the fox world altogether and to set about making himself a burrow. In his shocking ignorance of the difference between traps and non-traps, despite his incredibly extensive experience with traps, he hit on an idea completely new and unheard of among foxes: He built a trap as his burrow. He set himself inside it, passed it off as a normal burrow (not out of cunning, but because he had always thought others’ traps were their burrows). … Alas, no one would go into his trap, because he was sitting inside it himself. And so it occurred to our fox to decorate his trap beautifully and to hang up unequivocal signs everywhere on it that quite clearly said: “Come here, everyone; this is a trap, the most beautiful trap in the world.” From this point on … many came. Everyone except our fox could, of course, step out of it again. It was cut, literally, to his own measurement. But the fox who lived in the trap said proudly: “So many are visiting me in my trap that I have become the best of all foxes.” And there is some truth in that, too: Nobody knows the nature of traps better than one who sits in a trap his whole life long. (Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1994, 361-362; Arendt, Denktagebuch, 2002, 404-404)

Awesome lecture, thank you.

I watched this while removing a rotten plumbing stack in an ancient tenement and found that despite the sheer horrors of the work itself my mind was crackling with thought and reflection. What an age we live in that one can learn 24/7 with the entirety of the human experience in their pocket at all times.

i love these videos, back from the good ol' days when smart folks lectured in front of maps drawn by previous smart folks

Great stuff. Funny how it looks like a mid Eighties SNL sketch.

"The phenomenology of careerism" - one of the funniest, most underrated jokes in modern society.

This looks like a school project we watched during school. Of course, watching these videos were very important because of big tests and quizzes we took each friday.

Great lecturer. Been a long time ago I read Being and Time. When I was at university my former German professor said that reading Heidegger almost had to be done in Deutsch - his wordplays are legendary and beautiful (in Deutsch) and in many ways the power and beauty of his prose are lost in any translation. I couldn't agree more on the mystic and exhausting wordplay of the work and I remember almost skimming the second part of Being and Time as it is so incomprehensible, you loose the motivation to finish it. The more you understand of his thinking, the harder it seems to get and I do think it is only the 1 part that is worth reading. I remember my teacher at the time also saying that his teacher and later colleague Husserl work was of more importance, but I have never read him. The biggest problem with Heidegger was and is his biography and I couldn't agree more on Michael Sugrues sentiment on it - a work that so strongly, and often brilliantly urges you to follow him, for sure makes you hesitant considering just what Heidegger did to Husserl and his deep admiration of the nazi party. The real nasty part the work is that of ´das man´ and it is clear that much of his thought on man was in line with the extreme right wing politics of the nazi party. If I remember the course correct, Heidegger was apparently very unsure of himself, and he wrote most of his work on the countryside in a shed where he assumed the full on character of a farmer... I could be wrong about this, but I'm quite sure of it - people describing meeting one of the biggest philosophers in our time with the clothing, mannerisms and accent of a potato farmer... Heiddegers strength was surprisingly in teaching, and his lectures were often completely overcrowded and people were often sitting outside listening through open windows. He was apparently a great pedagogue and lecturer. So was this by Michael Sugrue. Excellence.

These are amazing and inspiring. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Wow I remember hearing this man's incredible lecture on Marcus Aurelius many years ago, and was inspired by it to dig deeper into philosophy. I had not known he had similar lectures on other philosophers!

Thank you so very much for your videos Michael. Cheers

Thanks for uploading!

that coffee is never getting finished.

Thanks Michael this was an intellectual motivational cleansing

Thank you, this is a brilliant lecture.

Kudos to the cameraman 😊 Jokes aside, it's a very lucid and easy to follow interpretation of a very hard to follow philosopher. Thanks for uploading!

Great lecture. I desagree about certain things though. I have read being and time and other heidegger's work, and from my point of view, he says that authenticity and inauthenticity is like a dance, we are never 100% one of those, both constitutes us as dasein, as being-in-the-world. The search of Being is not a voluntaristic moviment, like in the Christian story of leaving all the fortunes the follow him.

Great lecture. The point that Heidegger´s view is theology without God may be connected with something already established by Nietzsche when he talked about science and Enlightenment, he said exactly this in regards to the absence of God and the idea that in a godless world, man turns his faith into science and looks for an absolute reason to make sense of life, and this becomes the new idea of "God". This turns out to be a futile search for truth, which in the end causes the impoverishment and shrinking of the self. This is what Nietzsche calls nihilism, basically as damaging to culture as Christianity. In his own words: "Man becomes an animal without metaphors".

I often name Heidegger as a favourite philosopher..only by being as aware as possible of my eventual end can I live authentically and realize the remarkable value of all things relationships and people..and realize the importance of all interactions kindnesses and opportunities. If I live with the (false) notion that I shall live in this world forever..nothing means very much at all because it's always there and available.... tick tick tick... the 'trick' is realizing how precious everything actually is. Realizing my mortality, not morbidly, but just plainly, factually, adds so much value to my everyday, and gives me a proper appreciation of the immense value of things.

Simply brilliant thankyou

As opposed to most comments I think there are much better lectures on Heidegger on KZfaq. He hits some things that others ignore, but leaves out many most important ideas. He also spends too much time giving his own personal take and critique of Heidegger instead of just trying to explain what the man said.