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Dream come true to hear Professor S speak about Hard Times.
Thank you Sir.
Profoundly grateful for your own generosity.
Thank you for continuing to educate us, professor. You are one of the greatest teachers I have ever encountered. Thank you so much. Sincerely.
Beautiful point about teaching children. Merrylegs the GOAT
Love this channel. Pity I discovered it after his death. He reminds me of my dad who luckily is still with us. He really inspires learning and breaks down these difficult subjects well.
Thank you, Dr. Sugrue. Your lectures are always enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring. You're the best!
Great episode. Hey Dr. Sugrue it would so cool if you could talk about William Blake!
Quite simply my favorite professor. A man with an infectious passion and a mastery of literature. His candor, pace and understanding is second to none. Thanks prof.
I love how your old videos and the love they have recieved brought you with the help of you, your daughter (and im sure many others) to produce more material! With very few investments the production quality could go much higher and i hope this channel thrive!
Old curiosity shop is one of my favourite books , dickens is a master at combining the perfect sentences with genius story lines and characters.
Dripping with pathos, that novel. And the atmosphere; I've read a lot of sci-fi and a fair bit of fantasy but it is with The Old Curiosity Shop that I most identify the feeling of just being picked up and dropped into another world. And the ending .... oh my.
Thank you Professor Sugre, I am again listening to this one. "Hard Times" is one of my favorites by Charles Dickens.
6 years old I was already reading, my papa I would pester him , explain this to me, and I still played and painted.
Spinoza was for first philosopher and the Bible and poets and literature. Music, nature, farming.
Bee hives my grandpa taught me to get their honey, and I learned the exquisite nature of bees.
Dynamic and dysfunctional family of various nature's. What an adventure everyone one's life is.
Thank you.
so cool youre creating new content for us in addition to all the old lectures. youre the best !!!!
Thank you Dr Sugrue. Your joy of the book shines through!
Brilliant as always, Professor, thank you so much for sharing your talent, passion, and insight
I have a great deal of respect for you.
Thank you very much for your work.
Very happy to hear this! Thanks Mike!
Thank you for this. Your are a first rate teacher and a very likable fellow. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank You!
give this man a proper camera and setup he deserves it!
Always a pleasure to listen.
There is not a single novel by Dickens that I have not studied.He wrote 20 novels. Yet, I could never get into Hard Times and it was Mike who really walked me through it and unpacked its hidden message.Martin Chuzzlewitis another favourite of mine
Thank you.
Thank you.
This video inspired me to read the book! seriously great job!
Beautiful message
Thank you so much, dear professor!
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for a new Michael Sugrue video!
This week's talk reminds me of Rousseau's, "Emile; or on Education" greatly.
The account in the book of the relationship between Stephen and Rachel is so poignant, so heartbreaking beyond words. It is this pure, self-giving love that seems to me the "standard" for the book. It sets the standard that is realized finally in the "faith, hope and charity" that Gradgrind grows into after his catharsis/conversion. This extraordinary gift for teaching, it was part homily, part literary criticism and part philosophy of man--such as I've never experienced. Dickens himself is smiling down from heaven.
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Excellent as always
excellent as always Dr. Sugrue🥪🧠
Professor Sugrue should write a novel.
I think he said he's working on a book about the history of the world
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"The Key to all Mythologies?" 😁
I would pay good money to see Dr Sugrue deliver one of his lectures in person! So grateful for your erudite content sir.
I’ve only seen the old lectures on CZcams. Is THIS him now? I never would’ve recognized him!
i have had this one on my shelf for awhile (Hard TImes) - going to read and come back to this video.
God bless you Sir
I'm certainly going to read this book now, but I must refrain from spoiling it because I know your analysis is thorough. Thank you for letting me know Charles Dickens is the king of naming shit.
“To create in the abstract. To create in the minds of men vivifying reflections of the mystery-this is the great work”
Happy Thanksgiving, sir. Thank you for continuing to share your wisdom with a world that needs it.
I would love to hear Dr. Sugure speak on the philosophy of George Carlin. He may not be the first name a scholar would say when speaking of contemporary philosophers, but he exposed truth through absurdity with ideas that resonated across generations.
Oh yeah! thanks professor
Are you doing this all from memory? If so.... We're seeing genius. Amazing.
yay! thank u ❤
2 cities is one of my favourite books. Love Dickens. Incomparable I think
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Still as always as beautiful..health and happiness!
Came in for dickens lesson. Left with how to raise children lesson. Love Dr Sugrue. God bless you
Always a joy to listen to your lectures, old and new. I wonder if you will ever visit for us Ovid and his Metamorphoses?
Bravo!
Hey there professor.
Moby Dick needed an editor?? Wasn't it hacked up by editors? How else did we get the facepalm of Wycliffe replaced with Cranmer?
Anyways, i haven't read Dickens, but maybe an abridged version in childhood -- enjoying this! Maybe I'll look this book up.
I will give Dickens another go, on the back of your recommendation. He was treacle to me on initial reading.
Wonderful video, would love to see an analysis on Lord of the Rings similar to this
Dr Sugrue, thank you for another fantastic lecture. I would be very keen to hear your thoughts on Martin Amis's work in particular 'The Information' as it is deeply influenced by the works of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Sapir-Whorf, and Sartre and is an extremely ambitious and rich work of philosophically-inquisitive fiction.
The problem with lacking education and wanting it for your kids is that you don't know what it is what you want, unless a committed and ethical professional can show you. And once you see what it is, it horrifies you because it's not what you wanted at all.
I'm beginning to almost expect such beautiful lessons at the end of these videos, but it still took me by surprise
Could you please ask professor Sugrue if he ever intends to talk about Max Stirner, the post-hegelian philosopher?
Thank you for Charles Dickens.
Please consider doing a video on Rene Girard! Scapegoating has been such a problem in recent years and would love to hear your take on this important thinker.
I seem to remember someone posting your Marcus Aurelius lecture years ago (you were a much younger man when it was recorded, but still sharp as a knife). It was one of the many little things that led to my eventual conversion to the One True God and His Catholic Church. I see you are still faithfully doing His work and this video, like all the others, was fantastic. Thank you again, Professor.
Can you elaborate a bit on the connection?
I’m an atheist and I think professor Sugrue is swell too!
One True indeed!
Professor Segrue grew up Catholic (he mentions the influence of a Jesuit upbringing) but it is hard to tell if he believes in the Judeo-Christian God. I am just grateful he is letting us listen to these levture
Reminds me of the question: can virtue be taught? The answer in the Republic is a type of moral entropy. Every generation falls one step further away from virtue and creates a new form of government as a consequence. Fiction seems to be the only way to teach virtues but even then it is a removal from the original like a degrading copies. Just my thoughts but nice to hear him bring up some Plato at the end!
Professor, can u make some videos on Kafka too?
Could you please talk about Emile Cioran, about his idea’s about life, death, existence, consciousness, void, hoop, etc. Thank you.
Michael, you need to churn out these videos at a faster pace than once a week. I get uncontrolled cravings for your next lecture.
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I wonder if Dr. Sugrue has read Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon. It’s a refreshingly philosophical work in the genre of science fiction, written in the 1930s. It introduces some really interesting concepts.
Sir can you explain about Human existence of kierkegaard?
Please do Unamuno! Greetings from Perú!
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I didn’t know Dickens was also a Neuroscientist. The way he describes Mr. Blackpool or Gradgrind, mirrors the ways of the left hemisphere of the brain. The seemingly aimless and misunderstood mentality that enacts its will over all things, in spite of all things, to control all conceivable things. Directly in conflict with the imaginative and abstract elements of understanding that the right hemisphere provides.
2:43 Mr Gradgrind - Teacher of his own children and other children. Calls his children according to given numbers.
3:44 Grounded in Facts, Vs Children being Children
5:18 Best Friend, Mr Bounderbie, wealthy factory owner accusing the poor of being loafers and lazy and deserving of close to nothing. “Gold Spoon and Turtle Soup.”
7:57 Tommy robs Mr Bounderbee’s bank and frames Stephen Blackpool, good honest virtuous worker.
8:21 Sissy Shoe is the daughter of Mr Slery who has a speech-impediment. Leaves his daughter with Mr Gradgrind.
9:22 Mary Legs, a lovely show dog
10:37 What’s a horse?
12:29 Squares
14:16 Accusations of Undermining Union
15:24 Reason and Imagination.
16:19 Sentiments are properly part of human nature
16:55 Sew Bad Seed, Get Bad Fruit.
17:56 Stephen Blackpool
I have to be more charitable
20:12 Paper Love
20:57 Reap What You Sew
21:56 Scadger - ScabBadger
23:14 Coke Town
24:28 Thought he was doing right when he was doing wrong
Poor Tiny Tim 😢
Comedians can illicit pathos
32:25 Gradgrind changed his ways, Faith Hope Charity then Facts.
33:50 Sissy Shoop - Flowers, Horses, taken charge.
Truly Beautiful.
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36:06 Let children grow slowly. Let children be children for a while.
37:17 Teach them what is suitable for their age.
38:42 Michael Sugrue’s Children
2:43 Mr Gradgrind - Teacher of his own children and other children. Calls his children according to given numbers.
3:44 Grounded in Facts, Vs Children being Children
5:18 Best Friend, Mr Bounderbie, wealthy factory owner accusing the poor of being loafers and lazy and deserving of close to nothing. “Gold Spoon and Turtle Soup.”
7:57 Tommy robs Mr Bounderbee’s bank and frames Stephen Blackpool, good honest virtuous worker.
8:21 Sissy Shoe is the daughter of Mr Slery who has a speech-impediment. Leaves his daughter with Mr Gradgrind.
9:22 Mary Legs, a lovely show dog
10:37 What’s a horse?
12:29 Squares
14:16 Accusations of Undermining Union
15:24 Reason and Imagination.
16:19 Sentiments are properly part of human nature
16:55 Sew Bad Seed, Get Bad Fruit.
17:56 Stephen Blackpool
I have to be more charitable
20:12 Paper Love
20:57 Reap What You Sew
21:56 Scadger - ScabBadger
23:14 Coke Town
24:28 Thought he was doing right when he was doing wrong
26:24 Educated Fraud, Mask For Own Cruelty
28:00 Good Man Fallen Down A Mine Shaft
Comics - Understanding the pitiful
I couldn't follow the story fully, made difficult by those complicated names of those multiple characters. But I got the gist of it....
It's noticeably how misinterpreted Adam Smith was, in spite of the flaws of his work - even by smart ppl like Dickens.
Adam Smith did also write 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments', in which he addressed human emphaty.
I've studied more recently that morality was the main function of an education. You can invest in different pursuits that others would say was worthless.
We give children 12 years of education which is 8 more than 100 years ago. It's society that say's they are incapable of leadership.
Loose baggy monster…. I’m claiming this. 😂
Please do Moby Dick! You could never finish unpacking that text
'Powers-that-be' definition:
Creditors.
Thought experiment:
Let's imagine that a future government were to decide to underwrite debtors rather than creditors. What would happen to the entire global 1%?
Kaput.
They need us more than we need them. And everybody concerned would do well to keep this fact in mind as me move into the future.
Please please more Dostoevsky.
Children 5-10 are good at “rote” learning, like times tables.
Literature? A thousand times more useful and inspiring as a source of life insights and lessons. Philosophy? Not so much.
Is it a little ironical the J.S. Mill became the face of 19th century utilitarianism given his 'education' (recounted in his autobiography) ? And what 'saved' him...poetry....romantic poetry...poetry of the emotions.
The gecko lizard clings with its feet, And goes into the palace of a king
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I don’t think the opening line is “facts, facts, facts”
"Medicine, law, buisness, engineering these are noble pursuits neccessary to sustain life but poetry, beauty, romance, love, joy these are what we stay alive for" - Dead Poets Society
Mr. Surgrue. I believe Ayn Rand has not at all been given the attention she deserves. Could you please make a proper respectful video on her philosophy without any evasions. Please. I'd rather prefer to talk to you beforehand as I believe I've understood the solution which can change the world
No, I have no interest in Rand.
adopt me as a son before you leave
I have this novel in a 1987 penguin.....I tried to read it but it saddened me I will try a 2nd time
Thanks