"Drown the world; I am not content with despising it!" Unfathomably based.
@Khumzalet4 жыл бұрын
“Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s travels is arguably the most savage thing ever written in the English language....”😂😂😂
@dustinhourihan62019 ай бұрын
Apparently the professor has never played games online ... just saying
@dreioo87594 жыл бұрын
As per usual, I kid myself that I'll take a sneak peek at the beginning and end up watching the whole thing. So good!
@mehmetgok19755 ай бұрын
Isn't that the rule of thumb that we are facing a genius?
@Khumzalet4 жыл бұрын
Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯 I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎
@colleencupido51253 жыл бұрын
"Intellectual jewel" is right on... Which philosophy book was my first? Plato, and I started with Apology. Why? Professor Sugrue's course on Plato in the mid 1990s. Then there's Pro. Solomon's s lecture on Anger from a Teaching Co./ Great Courses series where he describes one of his favorite books on philosophy... Alice in Wonderland. Especially the mouse's tail which ends with the line "I am judge and I am jury, said cunning old Fury." PS: It's because of this lecture that I read "Gulliver's Travels" back in the 90's. A children's book? Yeah, the same was Animal Farm is a children's book...
@mehmetgok19755 ай бұрын
@@colleencupido5125 In one video Dr. Sugrue says "There is no children's book here." which made me smile thus I wanted to add.
@mehmetgok19755 ай бұрын
Thomas Jefferson once said: "If you find an intellectual than ask what books he or she reads first."
@Adam-bj5vx4 жыл бұрын
Whoever is uploading these, thank you!!
@sunnybrar35674 жыл бұрын
These uploads make my day, thank you!
@Truthspeaking4 жыл бұрын
Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him. 10/10 without music 20/10 with epic music
@dr.michaelsugrue4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words.
@MLGCaptainVirgil4 жыл бұрын
Always happy to see a new lecture!
@seeketng43094 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Prof Sugrue for this great lecture.
@cheri238 Жыл бұрын
Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well. Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British Satarist, Dean and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin. I love Jonathan Swifts books. The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy. "The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!
@maxheadrom308811 ай бұрын
I really love this videos. You, sir, are a great teacher!
Well I guess I’ll be reading Gulliber’s Travels again.
@ryans30012 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@muhammadasifkhan419810 ай бұрын
Beautifully presented.
@margaretmanfredo84104 жыл бұрын
Keep it coming!
@IvanTheHeathen Жыл бұрын
This is an excellent lecture, as are your others, Dr. Sugrue. I say that despite the difference in temperament between yourself and Swift which makes you find much of his satire somewhat off-putting. Like Swift, I have a rather dark sense of humor, and _A Modest Proposal_ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s rare for me to burst out laughing when I read something, even something that’s quite funny. But with _A Modest Proposal,_ I just couldn’t restrain myself.
@johndutchman3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@fionakarayianni22007 ай бұрын
Excellent. Thank you for sharing :)
@抠抠2 жыл бұрын
No automatic subscription makes the video a bit difficult to understand. PS:big fan from China.
@obladioblada69322 жыл бұрын
Same here in Brazil. I wonder why does that happens.
@ayeshakhanayesha69332 жыл бұрын
caption and transcript make understanding easily
@ryfreedman3 жыл бұрын
I needed to pass some time & knew this would be interesting. It was. The only disappointment I have with this video series is that each video comes to an abrupt end before I am ready for it to end.
@MegaFount2 жыл бұрын
We seem to be beyond satire now. We live in Lilliput.
@KimmyNemirow2 ай бұрын
The man was a genuis.
@TheTheshreyasraj Жыл бұрын
Never read the whole book but My whole life was a lie assuming Gulliver's travels a children's book!
@cheri238 Жыл бұрын
What? Your kidding right? Have you ever read anything by Hans Christian Anderson? "Alice in Wonderland."
@mikedaniels30092 жыл бұрын
Good old Jonathan would have either gone bananas in our world or created the Jon Swift Show and beaten George Carlin at ratings.
@davidfost57773 жыл бұрын
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
@drbonesshow12 жыл бұрын
I'm a cat-person because cats have value. I'm not a people-person, I'm just a person.
@maxheadrom308811 ай бұрын
Could someone forward this video to Steven Pinker? Thanks!
@pearz42023 күн бұрын
Swift wasn't harsh - the future he saw is.
@Ealdorman_of_Mercia4 жыл бұрын
Please tell me, how come this has been uploaded today but looks like it was taped in 1988 ?
@dr.michaelsugrue4 жыл бұрын
The videos on this channel are from the lecture archives of Dr. Sugrue.
@dubthedirector2 жыл бұрын
What, there was a world before the internet?
@TellTheTruth_and_ShameTheDevil Жыл бұрын
At the big end??? Where are these bastards!? 😂 19:22
@ananthpullur61422 жыл бұрын
Imagine Swift in a COD lobby
@pearz42023 күн бұрын
he's gonna say it
@cinnamon46053 жыл бұрын
Again Woody Allen is mentioned here :)
@Laocoon2832 жыл бұрын
He's my personal favorite child molester. Top 3 fasure
@chasemorello605 ай бұрын
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@patrickskramstad14852 жыл бұрын
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@patrickskramstad14852 жыл бұрын
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@EsatBargan2 ай бұрын
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@jmhaugen47572 жыл бұрын
One gets the feeling that Swift didn't have a real great grasp of history or historical figures, if he thinks our ancestors were more virtuous.
@KimmyNemirow2 ай бұрын
Listen..hans ate sinful and destructibe to each other in maby if the ways he prophetically describes..tbete is also pmenty of viryuw signsled in hos desire to tell the truth,in his defense if church and staye,in his son and wifes fidelity,in charctets luke the hoyng girl who protects him.Hevis hinesy and a teagic rimantic trying to cotrect a fallen world
@christinemartin63 Жыл бұрын
No, no, no ... Literature IS the voice of truth and wisdom. Philosophy? Not so much....
@christinemartin63 Жыл бұрын
Only true idealists (not necessarily the self-righteous, by the way) can ever become such cynical misanthropes--totally understandable and touchingly pathetic.