You can pay $350,000 for a philosophy major from an ivy league university, and well worth the money, or you can get it free from Professor Sugrue. Thanks so much for your invaluable series of lectures, Professor Sugrue. What a gift!

Rest in peace Michael Sugrue you were such a great teacher and philosopher.

I feel like a crack fiend every time I look for a new upload

Nothing is more compelling or illuminating than a teacher whose topic excites him.

English isn't my first language but I do understand what the professor says. He's great and I'm really grateful, he's making me life better. Thank you.

Stunning intellect. What a pleasure and privilege to listen to these lectures.

A true gift to be joined by fellow seekers of wisdom in listening to a great teacher! May we be ever more eloquent and knowledgeable that we may call ourselves the likes of Sugrue!

0:28 Description Background in mathematics 3:30 Start with What’s Inside, Work to get outside. (Shades of Descartes) 5:53 Trying to go for all the marbles Don Quixote of Philosophy Noble Intentions of a Hard To Understand Man *Husserl’s Ideas* 7:22 Certainty & 7:57 Intuition 8:33 I Don’t Know, but You Know 11:20 Self Comes First 11:57 _Philosophy in the Crisis of European Man_ 12:51 Rescue Us From Materialism 13:58 Know Ourselves 16:25 15:17 Dismissed, Fact-Value, Will To Power 17:03 Suspend The External World, it’s irrelevant 18:00 _Sift Man out Of The World_ What is essential to man? 19:14 Shape of Ego 21:04 A Priori, Necessary Truths, Definitions 23:00 CIRCLE ⭕️ Essentials Formulate Knowledge 25:34 Truth Conditions *Critiquing Husserl* 27:23 Wittgenstein’s Counter 30:48 Life World 🗺 As It Appears Human Time is Limited 33:09 Reality of Other Minds? Precision - Domain Sliding Scale 37:12 Thought Transfer, Verbal Community 40:20 Tailor’s Suit Example Fix the theory, not the Experience 43:00 Experience 44:17

Wish we had lecturers like this.

Professor, you are, in all likelihood, the most gifted educator I’ve ever encountered. Your passion is palpable and your lectures have enriched my life, immeasurably.

This was the first and absolute best of videos that finally made sense to phenomenology

Half way through the lecture I thought Sugrue gave a logical though very uncharitable perspective of Husserl that didn't really do his ideas justice. However towards the end Surgue provided a very eloquent account of what Husserl (and phenomenology in general) has to offer. This is a very well balanced, clear and enlightening lecture. Outstanding.

Thank you soooo much, Dr. Sugrue! The value of your fantastic lectures is truly immessurable.

Absolutely amazing, thank you for the upload. I'm feeling much more comfortable and oriented approaching my course on Husserl now that I've seen this.

Priceless speech. It helps me a lot in understanding Husserl. Thank you very much!

The examined Sugrue lecture makes life worth living. Almost unbearably exciting, thank you sir for the great work.

I am able to keep up and I am learning a lot, but man he makes me a little dizzy how much info he is able to insert into my head with every lecture. I feel like I discovered a a gold mine

Thank you so much professor! I have been struggling with this for a couple of weeks and trying to wrap my mind around some of the essentials in Husserl's work. You have such a gift of clear and interesting lecture.

One of the things i like most about Dr. Sugrue is that he conveys everything you need to know, and the intellectual level you need to know it, so clearly. No trudging over and over through the same paragraph youve been trying to comprehend, as is the case with a lot of philosophic texts.

really good presentation. i also like his fast and clear speaking and also his hectic walking while speaking. what a character!

Best video ever on Husserl and Phenomenology. Jackpot!

This is my favorite Dr. Sugrue lecture!

Read Husserl in college years ago. I think this video is just as good as the entire course . Excellent stuff

The ending with the comparison between the two traditions was just Wow. Couldn't ask for a clearer introduction into this paradigmatic dilemma, reminding me the yin yang symbol. Thanks!!

This's a such great work, explained all that complex ideas with simply and common words.

These lectures are great. What a great teacher. Thanks!

Had never heard of Husseri yet this is the path that was followed- have been learning about my Self for 79 years starting seriously at 27, and now am fascinated about philosophy and history of the world. Another amazing and helpful lecture. Thank you so much.🙏🌹

Yes, thank you. Great overview of his projects.

The last portion of this lecture is a tour de force on the split between continental and analytic philosophy - and why we need both. Professor Sugrue's lectures are a wonderful endowment to intellectual life.

What a wonderful, engaging speaker!

Remarkably clear, coherent, and concise.

What an excellent lecturer. Knows everything and explains it with such clarity and enthusiasm. An adornment to the human race.

Brilliant as always

Stunning clarity, coherence, and fluency.

Thank you immensely for your informative and enjoyable lectures.

Omg, I can’t believe I can understand this. Thank you sooooo much.

Thanks for this upload. Explained lifeworld more easily in a 3 min span that my uni did in 2 weeks.

He’s such a pleasure to listen to!

You're a fantastic professor. Thank you.

Best way to start the year

Although I got a bit list in the middle of this and found attention difficult, I am always impressed with how he ties things up in the end game. Well done. Empiricism ends up being deeply unsatisfactory for living out the existential realities of our personal experience.

This guy is simply amazing.

Wow! I had no idea I could watch these lectures!! I have about 5 of them on audible this is great to see!!

PLEASE upload the lecture on Plato's Symposium. Prof. Sugrue argues very passionately there.

Fantastic lecture and the last point about the primacy of experience is very well made

Very well done lecture. Definitely worth a listen.

Amazing lecture, thanks for sharing. Greetings from Mexico.

This is a great lecture.

Thank you, this is a most excellent summatiojn of Husserl!

a great lecture, thank you.

I'm only starting to take interest in philosophy and read a brief introductory text about Hussel because I'd like to read Heidegger. This lecture is very useful for me, and I appreciate the person who uploaded this content. I find the professor clear, conveys (at least for me) complex concepts in a succinct manner without taking away depth of reflection and thought. Much regards.

I had a difficult time understanding Husserl, Thanks to the professor you are incredibly easy to understand

even alone in my room, at work, or anywhere else, when one of these lectures ends i wanna clap out of respect

thank you for the free education

This is great. Thank you. Are you planning to upload professor Sugrue's Machiavelli lectures?

Superb lecture!

I once tried to read Hesserl's book "Ideas" but couldn't make much sense of it. I thought I was dumb. Wish I'd had this lecture back then. It would have made a lot of difference.

Existential-phrenomenology is now a therapy style, which I've found to be rather refreshing. It seems we've reached that indefinite point in the future :)

Mike performed informative cross examination of Husserlian Phenomenology yet, other than hearing oblique comments in the form of questions of a confused understanding towards Husserl’s works. Mike, when he spoke on several oh Husserl’s topics, he built a field of straw-men - to conquer, to backup his bewilderment regarding Husserl’s positions. Mike, your talk is quite enlightening… in the manner that elucidates the swath of folks that hodgepodge their way through Husserl’s published works.

excellent content

Cette vidéo rend les ancêtres fiers.

Thank you.

Brilliant explainer.

Love that jacket analogy.

Sugrue is legendary.

wow...this is breathtaking. Wish I could be half as articulate.

I took basically the entire same course but from a more European perspective with mainly European professors, although our main philosphy professor was a Fulbright scholar. Its interesting to see the differences in interpretation

10:42 I had no idea Freud was also a student of Brentano! 🤯🤯🤯

(Isnt the accent on the first syllable in Husserl?) Very stimulating and helpful lectures, free of cant.

All this puts me in mind of a famous passage from Hume's Treatise (I'm paraphrasing from memory): Whenever I enter most intimately into that which I call 'myself'...I cannot help but stumble upon some particular perception or other....of love or hate , pain or pleasure....I never manage to catch 'myself' without some perception or other and never manage to experience anything but the perception....and when all my perceptions should be removed...after the dissolution of my body, I cannot conceive what would by further requisite to make me a complete non-entity.

Dr. Sugrue reminds me of a thoroughbred race horse. He begins his lectures in a leisurely trot and then ,as his remarkable mind fully engages and gallops, his tongue can barely keep up.

Thanks much for these uploads, they are excellent. Do you have any Merleau-Ponty??

Did Prof. Sugrue ever broach Ralph Waldo Emerson? Would like to hear/read his take on the transcendentalists, even if Kant was a big influence.

Thank You!

Thanks so much for uploading this! It has clarified for me a lot about continental vs angloamerican tradition. I'm watching all of the lessons. Please, upload more! Or where can we find the rest of the course? I am very very interested in taking the whole course. He mentions in first class that there are 64 lessons. I could pay for it.

Very good

thank you sir.

Outstanding 💥💨

Fantastic🌹

Wow, I didn't know anything about Husserl before but he sounds very much like me in thought. I see things in an uncannily similar way. I didn't know I was a Continental philosopher. I refused to read philosophers' books before because I didn't want their thoughts to affect my hunt for my own ideology. I only took ethics. That I arrived at such identical thoughts leads me to believe there is some validation for these ideas despite the stance Dr. Sugrue takes. I think it is best to view it as.... the goal of minimalizing the rational aspects of the world in order to operate in a more efficient way. A way of connecting and condensing that hopes to move us towards higher concepts and loosen the limits of what is. We separate and classify sometimes to our own detriment. Once this notion is grasped, then people can focus on living rather than processing and reacting to the world around them. There would be fewer negative psychological effects overall because ideally, they would already know themselves at this point, then they can live in a way that makes them happy and can delve into their emotional sides when it is called for as opposed to reacting to external factors that wouldn't otherwise cause an emotional response....Either that or Husserl has a flawed aspect. I am not sure since this is my first introduction to both parties. To me, anything past the limits of what can be said is then what I call the Tao {the known, the unknown, and the combination of both, and is a part of the spiritual realm. There is an aspect of intuition. If there wasn't then my ideologies would not be so close without ever knowing anything about it. All stemming from a sort of intuitional knowledge.

Quite fascinating are the similarities between Husserl’s epache and Vipassana meditation.

Hello Sir, can you please make a video lecture on existentialism, focusing on Albert Camus , will love to get some clarity regarding existential philosophy.

“The very idea of the *logos* is that it’s *communicable.* “ - wow 😮 he is right.

I think what often gets missed with Husserl is that is not so much he wanted to find this mystery essence to the human soul as such. Its more to do with how we can become conscious of our time in this world. We literally spend so much time of our precious lives inside the confinement of our minds as opposed to actually being *in* the world. We become merely *of* it. I kniw this is sounding like Heideggers Dasein but he clearly took something Husserl could have easily taken and ran with it. Husserl wanted to put it across that to perceive of something primordially in the physical world, is to both become aware of it and perceive of it - thus, think it is true, that it exists. The body cannot conceive of when a thought is reflecting a thought or when a thought reflects physical reality as the same cognitive factulties are at play within our inner perception, as they are outwardly. Its so easy for time to slip away from us in this sense and we become so overwhelmed with speculative thoughts of the past or future or what we think we can rely on intuitively to be the case with something. I think Husserl strayed from this very important factor of his work, leaving it to Heidegger to emply. A lot of his ideas got lost in the breadth of his work. It would be interesting to see (if there was a way. But hey! perhaps there is!) When we die, we get some kind of print out statistics of how much time we actually spent inside out heads or on our screens in comparison to how much time was spent actually engaging with our immediate experience of the world. How many hours of conversations were spent in total on the phone, in text, on video calls etc and how may hours were spent engaged in genuine face to face conversation. Husserls work may not have been as recognised as he would have liked during his day but the more technology advances and the more time people spend experiemcing the world second hand on their screens.....it will very much be revived into todays mainstream world

You had me at "are you cogitating with me"🤣

Thank you

good point @21:57 very few examples in Husserl's work of actually doing this

QUESTION: Do you have professor Sugrue's lecture on existentialism in the "Great Minds" series titled " The Existential Insight Sartre and Heidegger" on your list of future uploads? Thanks.

I understand that the family is handling this channel. How is Michael's health?

You are never going to find a better introduction to Husserl's thought and philosophy than here. The one problem is that Dr. Sugrue does not really talk very much about Husserl's concept of the Life World and how some of his followers have developed it. He drops the notion of "intersubjectivity" and quickly abandons it right at the conclusion of his talk.

GREAT!!

Strangely enough, this felt like the most enlightenment liberal intro clip I have ever seen.

May I ask is the eloquent professor in the video the youtuber himself? because the quality of the video tells me it's from 20 years ago but it was uploaded 3 years ago?

My friend got his degree in philosophy at Fordham. He had a professor, John Drummond I believe, who said that husserl is not an idealist. And apparently Drummond is an expert on husserl, even wrote a dictionary of sorts regarding the neologisms. So, it seems if Drummond is correct, if husserl is not an idealist, then that presumption may lead to errors in interpreting husserl. And sugrue I think mentioned husserl as an idealist, though I’d have to listen again.

Anyone knows what year this takes place?

Truly a gem. Soo much better than the commercial "introductory" tiktok-like vids or debate-bro shoutfests that "philosophytube" has become.

I started watching a recommended video similar to this filmed from a similar time period with this little old lady as a speaker/lecturer and I cannot remember her name or find any of her videos. I think the title had "Plato" in it and she had a whole lecture series. I was watching a video of hers on Marx and Engels which started with the background of Hegel and the young Hegelians. It was just getting into the good part, probably about 10-15 min into an apprx. 1hr 45 min video. I cannot find it in my watched or liked videos, trust me, I have looked exhaustively :( The setting was a little more cozy than this with definitely outdated decor. It seemed like a living room setting with occasional props she would use to help explain an idea. The content was relatively in-depth and comprehensive at the expense of a really long video Does anyone recognize this description of this lady? Who is she? Have the videos been removed from youtube?

What's the intro music? Bach?

No slides. No blackboard. THis man really likes to be a teacher. Everything is in his brain... or mind if it s a concern.

24:00+ "Im bad at math" this is his true genius moment !!!!