Descartes
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Dr. Michael Sugrue earned his BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University.
Observation; Dr. Sugrue is sounding more like 1990's Dr. Sugrue. I mean this in the most complimentary way. In the lectures of the 90's, Michael would seem to get into a "zone" that was marvelous and compelling to watch. He would walk back and forth and articulate the most brilliant ideas and facts of his subject that makes even the greatest orators pale in comparison. This lecture is the first of the contemporary Sugrue lectures that, to me, harks back to those fascinating past lectures. The only thing missing is the good Dr pacing like a leopard and those anticipated pauses when he would stop and say, "Now". Whenever Sugrue stopped and said "Now", you better listen real closely, because he was about to lay something even more heavy on you! Haha! God bless you Dr. You remain in my prayers.
I agree. His older stuff captivated me. Pacing helps me think. At times, we would be pacing, and I would be listening- pacing.
I agree. Was thinking something similar. I think Sugrue's resurgence has revitalized his great mind.
I loved those but that poor cameraman.
The pacing looked like it happened with a cigarette in his apartment/office/wherever haha
yes, I noticed that in the Hobbes lecture! the jokes also
Call it a comeback! LOVING the new content Dr. Sugrue (and of course, the old videos are gold). You've inspired me to get back into teaching and are an excellent teacher, thinker, and mind, which I'm sure you know!
Never knew teachers returned to teaching after leaving.
Yes, his older content caught and hooked me, and I was excited to see new content. Dr. Sugrue is both entertaining and informative.
What did you teach and why did you leave?
History, philosophy, literature, religion and politics. Cancer.
@@dr.michaelsugrue I’m sorry you had to go through that. Very glad you pulled through it and are back doing what you were put on Earth to do. When did you begin to teach ? And may I ask what was it that drew you into teaching/professing to begin with ? Was there a teacher or lecturer who inspired you?
28:21 #1 Mom cup 🤣 Thank you for the knowledge in your lectures, the enthusiasm in which you deliver them, and the subtle humor you hide in it all.
Love that quote from Wittgenstein: "Metaphysics is the shadow cast on our understanding by grammar."
Grammar is important to Aristotle's ON INTERPRETATION. His Metaphysics compares with his Physics as ontology to science in modern terms. The problem is as old as Zeno, which Socrates extends from the Being of Nature to the meaning of motion to question the existence of The One in Parmenides. Hegel prefaces his History philosophically by declaring "the truth is the one.
God bless you Dr. Sugrue. Thank you to you and your daughter for uploading your lectures. They are a treasure.
Brilliant as usual...
There's nothing better than learning from someone that loves his discipline. Beyond the words you can see it in his face, his eyes, how much he enjoys teaching. It brings tears to my eyes the passion and enthusiasm Dr. Sugrue shows us with every lecture, and how easy is to understand him. I wish I had that flame at his age, now burning brighter than ever.
Professor Sugrue always brings an enlightening perspective! A true professor!
“He found his zero-zero point” was beautiful af 🫡🫡🫡
Brother Sugrue, you look fantastic! The gods have blessed and kept you. Keep it going!
I have been blessed and given breaks I did nothing to deserve. I also look like a mariner that has killed an albatross.
@@dr.michaelsugrue the albatross had it coming.
Was happy to wake up to a lecture on Don Quixote, but one on Descartes is even better
Yeah. I don't mind the literature lectures but I'd prefer a Philosophy lecture. 😎
I was wondering how he was gonna segue into quixote but to no avail :)
One of the best, and yet, least known channels on CZcams. Let's all help out with the algorithm!
Yes Rest in peace Dr sugrue
Incredible genius shared with all of us
So wonderful to hear from Dr. Sugrue again regularly! Shame this lecture and the last one have both been truncated though, I was hanging on to every word.
R.I.P. you will be missed.
Am I the only person who thinks the Prof is looking livelier and healthier every lecture?
Long Live Dr. Sugrue!
I even listen to Michael Sugrue while in my vehicle, as I do other few as well. Dr. Sugrue has certainly earned his position on the folds of my wet-wear! I sat my friend down to one of his lectures- Marcus Aurelius, and she was enthused and impressed.
Great lecture, Prof Sugrue. Superb. I can’t tell you how happy I am watching these lectures, and having you back.
Always very clear, insightful, and entertaining lectures
You’re the übermensch, so grateful 🙏
Nay.
Keep them coming!!!
Thank you so much Dr Sugrue for all your wonderful lectures and this speaking to us. It’s incredible we can hear you speak like this.
I love these lectures, and I’m sad that they often end while Dr. Sugrue is still teaching
These lectures make my life more wholesome ❤
I enjoyed, therefore Dr. Sugrue is fantastic. Thank God for this experience.
Professor, your love of learning and knowledge is contagious.
Masterful... Thank you, Dr. Sugrue.
Youre as Brilliant as ever, Dr. Sugrue. Please do Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety when youre able.
Thank you so much for continuing to put forth your content. It is spectacular.
You are the absolute best, I can't tell you how important your knowledge is to me and to so many others, thank you so much!
Thank you Dr Sugrue. What a treasure
Thanks so much Dr. Segrue. You are an amazing intellect
I am so grateful to Professor Sugrue - so glad to have found his second iteration of lectures on You Tube. I listen over and over. Informed and inspired. Long may you run.
Thank you for your work and sharing it here. I would never get a chance to learn about these ideas at this level. Thanks so much.
The best....watched his videos millions of times
Thank you for the upload. I am enjoying this.
Thanks! This is one I'm going to have to revisit at least a few times before I grasp it. Adventures never cease.
Thank you for doing these videos! So many elements of our world make more sense after listening. There are light bulb 💡 moments all the way through like nuggets of golden wisdom for us to collect as we listen , excellent teaching!
Don Quixote? Descartes? Either way, it's all the same if it comes from Sugrue... Brilliant thoughts excellently expressed... A joy to listen to, no matter the subject!
True. I am looking forward to Don Quixote now, though 😆
Thank you Dr Sugrue
I have learnt a lot from you Dr, you are my favourite!!
Love the lecture. And I never get tired hearing about Descartes. And the oh so interesting, Teleology of Nature.
Professor Sugrue, you are brilliant. Thank you for bringing your lectures to the internet. Ive been a student of yours for a little over 2 years and you have enhanced my life and thinking in more ways than one!
Dr. Sugrue. I thank you endlessly for the infinitely valuable resources you present here. The contribution you have made to the general subconscious in your lifetime is innumerable and far beyond the wildest dreams of many great thinkers alike.
Came for Don Quixote. Was not disappointed.
Excellent!!!
Thank to all involved in honoring all off us with this great gift....
To add to the chorus of gratitude, thank you for freely sharing your past lectures as well as this newer material. My life and thoughts have been truly enriched by your masterful examination of Western thought. Words escape me, other than ‘thank you, we are in your debt’
I died laughing when you pulled out the #1 Mom mug 😂
The grammar language angle is so brilliant! It really does show,Tho Descartes is such a great thinker he was heavily limited by religious power and the technology of his time.
Can you imagine what all the great philosophers would be able to do just simply with the apple notes app, the internet, and the ability to zoom other philosophers. It’s mind blowing LOL
I have a tremendous respect for you.
Thank you!
Thoroughly enjoyed this lecture, thank you!
Thank you for lighting up my brain today.
The greatest lectures of all time
Dr. Sugrue's lectures are like having a weekly, "first time watching The Matrix/Fight Club/Evangelion" level experience over and over and each time the plot-twist gets even crazier. God bless this teacher of Souls.
Minor Point Professor, but I believe it was the Pineal gland that Descartes attributed as the seat of the soul. Ironically, given that parts of the hypothalamus connect the nervous system to the endochrine system and regulate dreams, the hypothalamus actually serves a function that more closely resembles what Descartes attributed to the pineal gland. All the pineal gland really does is secrete melatonin as far as I remember.
Yes, it was the pineal gland, which we now know regulates sleep by producing melatonin. Descartes found no other part of the brain which is not double, so he thought this must be where all our doubled sensations from eyes and ears etc. get unified. Not sure why it would be such a dumb idea, under the assumption of dualism, to think that there's a special point of interaction in the brain. The idea is analogous, after all, to a (material) transceiver which causally interacts with the (immaterial but physical) EM field.
I just finished that the other day! The ending was my favorite. He goes off and argues the existence of a higher power through the complexity of the heart.
He was devout but laid the foundation to challenge religion.
Dr. Sugrue and Terence McKenna are some of the most eloquent and interesting speakers of our times.
Thank you Michael for your really exciting content. You have brought such a wonderful dimension to my retirement .... it's great to see there are a few people left who think philosophy is still profoundly important. You make the subject so compelling. Thank you from Susie in Australia.
I read mediations as a college freshman 25 years ago. It was life changing. Excellent lecture.
Really appreciate you uploading! The old lectures have gotten me through so much.
Fantastic, thank you.
I love these videos so much! Ive been watching them all and reading the books with them! We love you sugrue! ❤
Evan i, the greatest philosopher,dionysus, the great nietzsche, can benefit from these great videos!
Thankyou so much Professor.
Thank you
I always loved Descartes and thought of him as infalible, its good to understand him at another level. Thank you so much Prof Sugrue!
Infallible because God guarantees it?
@@richterbelmont5506 ehehe... no, I tought of him that way because he cared to demonstrate his assertions by the most mathematical way philosophy is capable of. I also have read his "Rules for The Direction of The Mind" where he explains how anyone can achieve a reliable understanding of pretty much any subject. Descartes, as well as Kant, I was never able to refute in any way. That's why. But then, I too am not infalible.
love when #1 Mom is telling me about the problems of the mind body dualism!
the joy seems to be coming back into Michael's swag
You are my hero.
Peace be with you brother. 🙏🙏
I found your linguistic parsing of Descarte's "I think therefore I am" particularly fascinating and enlightening. I particularly appreciated how you carefully demonstrated it's internally consistent logic, but also showed how this logic is also based on a false premise, namely a Western conception of language and thought which belies it's universality. I thought this was also an excellent demonstration of the Sapir-Whorf "Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis".
I want to echo the numerous comments on your videos and thank you for these lectures and content. I greatly appreciate not only your excellent summations on the philosophy's and concepts, but your incisive commentary on said philosophy and concepts. Thank you for devoting your life to scholarship, learning, and teaching; I know I am much richer for it.
I agree Dr. Sugre did a very excellent job of pointing out that 'false premise' of Western Linguistic. He broke it down to it's most simple element. Did he use Descartes method?
Best "takeaway" at 30:06: "Metaphysics is the shadow cast on our understanding by grammar."
Good work professor!
I idolize this professor against all my religious upbringing!
love this need it get my mind in shape, father passed had a vehicle wreck behind in my studies yet somehow im still cruising
That "explanatory gap" between human consciousness and "things" ...is it somehow bridged in Schopenhauer? I've not read let alone studied either philosopher, but this incredible professor has given me the illusion that I'm "conversant." I still can't quite put my finger on the place where this dualism is made one. Underneath "freedom" though appears to be will. I think here of Schopenhauer & Freud--and Goethe who said, "He [Schopenhauer] will out-do us all." Kant's "collective personality" seems to pave the way beyond Freud's "sex drive" into Jung's "collective unconscious," which itself seems to owe credit to Hegel's notion of Geist. With these lectures I hope to sort of fit together more and more pieces of the "puzzle." And then, I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard, for the first time, Wittgenstein's statement (so close to Heidegger, whom I HAVE studied), "Metaphysics is the shadow, cast upon our understanding, by grammar." Heidegger's whole philosophy seems to derive from Wonder. His Being, at bottom, is speechless Wonder at God's creation.
New content on the same level as the old stuff. 👍
11:15 Good advice on literal and metaphorical thinking. Will try to stay mindful of that
Watching this recording, I can’t imagine the brilliant man is no longer with us. How cruel a reality, making no sense such as time and mortality! I must entrust that there is life after death, or his soul lives in all of us, and the light goes on.
This man's contribution has been incredible. I just found out yesterday. 😢
Don Quixote would have been nice cause youre very passionate about it, but ive listen to your other lecture on it a couple times. So for this lecture to actually be about decartes is such an awesome surprise simply because you havent lectured about decartes on this channel. I think the decartes video you did provide is from staloff. I enjoyed this greatly thank you.
I wouldn't underestimate the philosophical importance of grammar. Great point though about how we need to either explain the experience of freewill or the mind's control over the body.
For thirty years his quote. “ I think therefore 7:54 I’m “. Always confused me, “ l shit therefore I’m “. Makes the same sense. Still thought provoking concepts.
Call me credulous if you must, but considering the depth and breadth of knowledge Dr. Sugrue has displayed both here and in other lectures, I'm actually willing to believe that #1 Mom award at 34:49 is justified. 🤔
In all seriousness though, thank you very much for taking the time to record and upload these new videos. As with the older ones, each has been a gem.
Thanks!
Thanks🎉
Brilliant
Thanks
Please, keep going.
This guy is living in 2040... The way he Broke down the desecration of the word toxic?
Classy.
Been watching these for a while and didn't realize old/young are the same person until reading some comments. What a transformation! I like grandpappy Sugure better, seems somehow more convivial and approachable.
What a lovely surprise! I had only just finished the Othello lecture.
(Everyone laughs at his actions, but no one laughs at his intentions, or something like that)
(I think this is Descartes not Don Quixote)
Context: Enlightenment Europe
• Renaissance, Mathematics, Experimentation, Control Vs Variable System.
• Astronomy 🔭 Dog Star 🌟
• Hippocrates Oath “Do No Harm”
5:12 Test and Justify
5:58 Descartes wants Absolute Certainty, Undoubtable Truth 7:33 “He painted himself into a corner.”
8:49 Connected/Correlative Concepts
• True and False
• North and South
• Odd and Even
9:40 _Discourse on Method_
There’s no such thing as foundations of knowledge. Don’t take metaphor as literal, take metaphor as metaphor.
_It’s A Mistake To Literalize Metaphor_
12:03 I want
• Clarity • Distinction
13:44 Inquisition 7 condemn 3 acquit
14:48 Mental Judo
17:43 _Necessary Entailment_
B needs A to Exist
Thoughts need Thinkers to Exist
Finite [Will die some day]
Fallible [Mistaken -> Corrected]
Imperfect [Not Perfect -> Perfected]
E.G. God
21:42 Does Perfection Lie?
23:18 Dreams can be real, Plato’s Divided Line has been moved down a level.
Descartes - An intellectual mountain climber, lots of slip ups, but he’s making upward moves.
26:03 THE ULTIMATE STRUCTURE OF REALITY
29:46 Grammar Rule for cognitive verbs 30:08 “Metaphysics is the shadow cast upon our understanding by grammar.”
32:08 Sheep Heart ❤️ 🐑
• Parrot - repeat what is heard
• Human - freedom and rationality, going toward new sentences.
34:32 Anatomy
Telos - Function
Gut - Digestion
Eyes - Sight
Heart - Pumps Blood
Hypothalamus - ???
37:32
Theories judge by Experience
Experience judge by Theories
Inner World
Outer World
39:00 The World Within
You have a fantastic mugg
Well, you're right about that.
Best video yet
I was born in Far Rockaway
@@dr.michaelsugrue you're a hood legend
Back then it was an Irish ghetto, everybody called it "Irishtown". After the subway finally made the connection to Far Rockaway, Irishtown was history.
@@dr.michaelsugrue I was wondering if you might be Irish.
I used to love your old lecture videos. Can't believe you're still doing this! This is awesome. You should try to partner with some editor to spruce these up for you so they get more views, you're lectures are great!
What a joy these lectures are. No one can weave together a riveting talk about subtle, nuanced philosophies like Sugrue. Each one is a unique gift.
I love you Professor Sugrue . You are the best philosophy professor I listen too. 🎶 Thank you for your lectures What is your IQ may I ask? Brilliance. You are looking well, sir . RESPECTFULLY. ❤ I think, therefore I am. Wow 👌
Were they all wrong? Lol
Mechanical sheep and mechanical people engineering. Every century has been desperate and grasping through thousands of years evolutional thought and science and metaphysics. Right? The human brain we are learning more about it, thankfully.
RIP ❤
Apologies if you’ve done one already but I’d love to hear a lecture on the great Cicero.
It would be very interesting to see him talking about Gnosticism
Dr.Sugrue what are your thoughts on the decline of the great books education?