Sartre and Heidegger

[@voyagersa22]

The great professor Sugrue ❤ thank you wherever you are now

[@negbefla6956]

RIP Doc. Your thoughts through your words shared here online survives.

[@sholoms]

Sorry, who's DOC?

[@sholoms]

Last month, I was sorry to learn that "Doc" probably referred to Sugrue, himself. So, may he rest, for sure -- in the only sure way.

[@zachnorman1893]

RIP one of the greatest

[@slalialley3786]

"to be honest, there are few things as unreadable as heidegger." Sugrue is my favorite philosophical standup comedian.

[@slalialley3786]

@@batmanbad5091 you really must see for yourself, i believe...if you have the book, that's easy.

[@ttacking_you]

I wouldn't even try, thats why I watch these.

[@Tuber-sama]

"philosophical standup comedian", lmao this fits too well.

[@TeaParty1776]

The Presocratics had better one-liners than Henny Youngman. "Take my philosophy, please!" [BA-BOOM!]

[@leomiller2291]

Same here!

[@JosephusAurelius]

Thank you as ever Michael and his daughter for uploading this content!

[@cheri238]

Yes, we must be grateful ! I appreciate intelligence.

[@phildo3668]

Man Heidegger sure would be upset I was learning about his ideas from a phone.

[@ryanmudge7255]

Under appreciated comment

[@ofHerWord]

howd you do that

[@PaballoKobe-xh9ve]

Especially not in german

[@redtree732]

Why? He explicitly said he’s not against technology.

[@ConfusedHomoSapien]

Haha, tremendous 😂

[@erwindouwes7043]

Why on earth would i even pay a dime for traditional philosophy lectures if i can watch this hot piece of knowledge, for free! This stuff is golden. Please keep uploading!!

[@tranzco1173]

To support a philosopher/teacher? Without it, they end up working in a book store - which are mostly all closed. Still agree with you, the internet isn't completely evil is it?

[@cheri238]

I still go to old book stores. It is true that only the use of the internet are programs one may learn from.

[@spitfire3311]

You don’t get an accredited degree from KZbin

[@bettcher777]

I agree with you! Many colleges are becoming swamps of ideologies and no longer teach critical thinking.

[@Ldlax40]

We are so fortunate to have these lectures as a resource.

[@ahappyimago]

Masterpiece of a lecture. Do not despair fellow philosophers. Good is real and it’s exemplified in this lecture.

[@cheri238]

Thank you and your daughter for uploading this again. I watch and rewatch, listen. Philosophy is a love. I hope you are doing well. Sir. I know you have been ill for some time. Thank you for your dedication to being a professor all these years.❤️ Also, respectively, may I add you are a handsome man, even if you are older now. I am aware that this is short and not the complete lecture on Satre and Heidegger. Your intelligence and heart are who we are ( We grow) Diazine, far out.

[@pinosantilli3371]

Good pickup line!

[@cheri238]

@@pinosantilli3371 Well, who are you?

[@pinosantilli3371]

@@cheri238 im nobody who r u?

[@cheri238]

@Pino Santilli Which prestigious college did you go to? Not that is any of my business . lol Professor Sugre, I admire him greatly. I do read books 📚 I only have a GED, but I educated myself. As inarticulate as I may sound to you evidently, I assure you I am not incaponious as you think me to be. HAPPY HOLIDAYS 💥🤶🎄

[@pinosantilli3371]

@@cheri238 what? I like the professor too have been listening to all the lectures. Why are you so upset at me? I like ur spunk tho ANNA.

[@lhorpally]

What a gift he left us with these videos. Rest in peace and thank you.

[@jamesb2059]

Brilliant teacher. Thank you.

[@OnerousEthic]

12:00 Heidegger on technology 26:04 Sartre: “Like it or not, we are free.” Sugrue: “That is the human condition! That’s what it means to be a subject as opposed to an object, and the difference between subjects and objects is what makes Sartre’s philosophy (work)”. 31:00 Sartre: “ freedom is the human condition and we must confront it.“ Sugrue: “There are no moral rules, but at least there could be moral heroism.” 31:25 Sartre vs. Spinoza (Deterministic and Cartesian): functional opposites Oh Michael what a remarkable thread you weave! 34:30 Sugrue: “We are playing tennis with the net down.” Wow I love that! ❤️ 35:13 …Sartre fought the Nazis. Heidegger put on the Swastica, and give a rousing speech (advocating Nazi control of the University) in 1936.

[@clive2296]

Never heard such a critic of existentialism. Thank you very much for sharing this.

[@joshburks4079]

I’ve been missing more Sugrue lectures. Finally some more to watch!

[@NarwhalSweat]

coming from a university student who for a long while has done private learning/reading on a lot of these greats, i must say that while sugrue has introduced me to plenty and given a good roadmap for certain schools of theory that i was less familiar with, this is not necessarily what makes him impactful for me. what sugrue has done is i think even more meaningful. Dr. sugrue has taught naturally by example a way of communicating more “dry” figures and their concepts in a way that is so inviting, so full of passion. he’s taught me a certain affect to use when i’m just dying to communicate something from the books i’m reading to friends of mine that may be nowhere near familiar with the subjects. this romantic intellectual spirit of his reminds me a lot of the old academic men of the church i was raised with- explaining such niche technical concepts of a reading with the welcoming and communicative tone that, while they still may not understand fully the topic by the end, could at least even keep schoolchildren captivated. as people who choose to engage with these ideas that many folks today see as either too boring or too challenging, we must take from sugrue’s example and learn to be such good communicators that people can’t help staying engaged with. if we want any chance of sharing these topics of our long reading i suppose. this is what i’ve needed to articulate for so long, this is what sugrue above all else has truly gifted me with. i’m only 22 and i believe the example sugrue has given me will stay with my methods of speech for the rest of my life. makes me feel a bit less lonely doing all this stupid stupid reading.

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

Watch a film called "The Alpinist". This young man reminded me of myself at his age, and I never left the ground. If you hope to succeed at any demanding endeavor, you must embrace the fact that serious study and quality work entails solitude. As I used to demand of my students, "When are these books scheduled to read themselves?" God bless.

[@NarwhalSweat]

@@dr.michaelsugrue a blessing to hear from you. i will watch this film, and continue doing the private, long work with my books. wish me luck in keeping my charm, for i fear that too much seclusion may break up my confidence in talking to those wild girls. i think i’ll make it.

[@markstevenpandan890]

I'm 21 and I feel the same!

[@ConfusedHomoSapien]

Beautiful, GENUINE comment! Thank you! I’m 22 and feel similar. Since your post is from a year ago, I suppose you are 23 now. How has the last year been since posting this and getting advice from Dr. Sugrue? (Who has since passed on, may he rest in peace)

[@BogdanLiviu7]

absolutely priceless lecture. Michael Sugrue is a gift for humanity. Thank you, Sir! Greetings from Romania!

[@Jersey-towncrier]

Hope you're resting easily in the Eternal Circle Dr. Sugrue. You gave us so much!! Thank you

[@DJ_Frankfurter]

It's always a pleasure to see another Sugrue lecture. Thanks for the upload!

[@klammer75]

Such an amazing professor….best philosophy communicator out there IMHO🤓🤩🎓

[@tommore3263]

Thank you God for Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas. Thank you for sanity. Great lecture. Beautiful. Educate.. means to ex ducare... to lead out. In this case out of existentialist darkness.. .the mind without reason. Thanks so much professor.

[@johnw.mcintosh4740]

Thank you again, Dr. Sugrue. I enjoy these lectures immensely, even if I have to watch them 2 or 3 times to grasp it all. Sometimes I read or watch other videos on the same subject and then listen to you again.

[@JTL2884]

These lectures are incredible.

[@Jennypenny3467]

So grateful to have access to Sugrue’s brilliant lectures!

[@leomiller2291]

Phenomenal lecture. Sugrue is a treasure. I’d love to hear him address how Sartre’s statement that “we are condemned to freedom” wrestles with the belief of some modern philosophers, like Sam Harris, that we don’t have any free will at all.

[@imranzero]

I thought sartre's view was that we MUST have free will. I haven't read much by Harris, I watched his discussion with Jordan Peterson and found his philosophy to be quite naive and idealist

[@maleldil1]

@@imranzero the thing about Harris' free will isn't much philosophical as it is scientific (from his point of view). He argues that we live in a deterministic world (far all human intents and purposes), so we don't have free will. For what it's worth, I don't think that's inherently incompatible with free will in the Sartre sense. Daniel Dennett argues that we can have free will, even in a deterministic world, and I think that works well with Sartre's notion.

[@cheri238]

I have listened to Jordan Peterson a few times, but I shy away from him for reasons that he is not free inside himself.

[@preciousamaechi5887]

I finished reading Albert Camus - Myth of Sisyphus. I must say that I truly struggled with the ideas, the structure, the philosophy, the semantics, in every line was I compelled to read twice! Staggeringly brilliant work of Philosophy. I am proud to say that I got a lot from the book even though I spent interminable hours and pages trying to understand what he meant by 'the absurd'.

[@voyagersa22]

What a beautiful lecture thank you

[@silverskid]

I think Heidegger (at least in B&T) is a bit more rigorous and precise than indicated here. So when Prof. Sugrue interprets Dasein as being-in-the-world as "subjective," he does so without mentioning H's arguments against Cartesian foundationalism. The closer analogy made in this lecture is to the late Wittgenstein's concept of "forms of life." We do not, for Heid (and Sartre's a bit different here) interpret the world as individual subjects. Being human already presupposes a world into which we are "thrown" (geworfenheit) -- a world in which culture, social norms, language, and meanings are already up and running when we arrive. "Historicity" is, for H, the ground of Dasein. Being-in-the-world is (in B&T) has more to do with practices than concepts. We learn how to use tools, to communicate, to get on with everyday life with others. That's not groundless or subjective but it is a shared ground. We aren't solipsists in our own worlds. Someone is born into the Hellenistic world, another into the modern Western world. These bring very different pre-understandings, understandings of our "heritage" and "fate," H. says. Our possibilities as human beings (Dasein roughly) are largely provided by historical context and not mere subjective whim. To be "authentic" one must not flee from their "historicity." So, subjects do not construct meanings arbitrarily but as "thrown projects"-- historically conditioned beings with future possibilities ("projects") that are largely structured by that historicity (which is part of a shared world and not a "private" subjective realm like the Cartesian ego-- the "ghost in the machine").

[@OnerousEthic]

What is your point?

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

Heidegger's apprehension regarding technology becomes more apparent in his later works, in particular his essay "The Question Concerning Technology".

[@JamesDecker7]

@@xxcrysad3000xx like most philosophers the early work seems to be only a cleaning up or rehearsal of later, better stated ideas.

[@christopheclugston]

@@OnerousEthic obvious, except to you

[@TeaParty1776]

> To be "authentic" one must not flee from their "historicity." Ayn Rand regarded spiritual independence as a basic moral virtue and spiritual dependence a vice. See her, _The Fountainhead_. Heidegger's authenticity is merely and dangerously emotional. At the 1930s Nazi rallies, not losing yourself to the emotions of Hitlers speeches was improper.

[@jonathantrautman]

The need to reconcile our notions of reason and emotion in the midst of the interpolation of those experiences neurologically, will perhaps always pose a challenge to humanity. We are very much living in a world today that compels one to act, where everyone is a hero, and where we are to regard sentiment over science and rationality. Our current analogs to the 20th century and Heidegger's appeal are impossible to ignore. Thank you for this thought provoking and artistic content.

[@maxwellcaballero]

Exactly how I feel. Its easy to recognize Surgue’s ‘nausea’ when it comes to his inability to come to terms with the abyss that is the limitation of rationality.

[@mehmetkurhan9876]

Professor you are a fine art in what you were doing 👏🏿

[@DFwanz]

Incredible, truly incredible

[@brettlarson3801]

Thank you Lord Sugrue

[@lukepipa2570]

One of the most important lectures

[@patrickjames2082]

I like how the professor spent the entire lecture just trying to explain what existentialism is. An uncanny paradox 😂

[@RBDawg]

This guy is such a good teacher.

[@WalrusMilk]

Camus can do, but Sartre is smartre

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

Well Scooby-Doo can doodoo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter! [tumbleweed blows by]

[@felix-he3wo]

i’m obama and i just ate a llama

[@TheMakersRage]

Hei-degger, Hei-degger was a boozy beggar who was just as schloshed as Schlegel...

[@josephwinnard6666]

Gene Wilder lives on

[@cheri238]

@xxcrysad3000xx Screw off!! Lol, ⛄️🎄⛄️Happy Holidays

[@briancherenaacosta923]

Perplexity never goes away.

[@karenewool403]

this is amazing! Thanks!!

[@luisd5098]

I just coomed when I saw that it was posted today. Just listened to the Kierkegaard one yesterday

[@benji5777]

Existentialism is probably more important now than ever in this age of militant politically weaponized science. STEM is a distraction from what it means to be human, and now the humanities are cast aside and even laughed at. People always seem to find a way to make the world more and more depressing.

[@albertoscalici8235]

How could you do such lectures? It was like reciting a text of about 5000-7000 words by heart! Incredible!

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

I think much of the time. When I lectured I used to think and let other people hear about it.

[@albertoscalici8235]

@@dr.michaelsugrue Well, in that case, a really remarkable ability to instantly translate thoughts into articulate language. Congrats!

[@cheri238]

💯 correct. Passion!!!

[@JohnSWren]

@@dr.michaelsugrue❤

[@greghunter9741]

this man could change the world

[@colbert4win]

New Sugrue? Don't mind if I do.

[@stephenakey9869]

I hope this doesn't seem like nitpicking, because I bow to no one in my admiration for Michael Sugrue. Bit for anyone who might be interested, here are a couple of minor corrections. It wasn't Allen Ginsburg who said, "Unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" It was Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself." And the unnamed "writer" to whom Professor Sugre attributes the quotation "The sleep of reason produces monsters" was in fact the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It's the title of one of his greatest and most famous etchings -- in Spanish, "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.

[@Natron0Zero]

i just got your Plato/Socrates lectures on Audible because of this channel. it's also excellent.

[@philosophy_schilling]

I wouldn't say H. is a techo-phobe. He says it is a clearing and salvation as well as destructive force. He just wants us to be reflective about how we use it and what it can turn us into: standing reserve.

[@TeaParty1776]

standing reserve?

[@philosophy_schilling]

@@TeaParty1776 Yes, "bestand/bestehen" in the German, that which is ready and waiting to be used/useful.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@philosophy_schilling Did Heidegger accept only primitive tech? And because little reasoning was needed to use it?

[@philosophy_schilling]

@@TeaParty1776 No, he was accepting of going along with the development of modern technology as long as we always reflected and were aware of how we were using it and allowing ourselves to be used by it. He had a nuanced view.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@philosophy_schilling He seemed think, at least, that the rationality needed for tech was only only one consciousness and not the most important one. The fanatical faith in Hitler despite his bizarre incompetence is a rejection of rationality.

[@ChillsWithSloths]

Great way to spend my break at work.

[@paulkenyon3372]

Woah that was heavy ✌️ so much said also by the eyes Can understand how the tape would have got those worn sections, ho hum, lol 😁 Thanks so much for the upload work plus of course the intellectual and educational sheer heroicism 🙏

[@arctan5837]

What a beautiful lecture

[@AnglicanFish]

A NEW LECTURE AT LAST THANK YOU MR SUGRUE

[@metroidfighter90]

Thanks again for the upload Professor Sugrue. 👍

[@RPSartre01]

Heroism?? That's not a word I would use to describe Heidegger! What a coward he was!

[@gilroyopinion]

As much as I consider my deep longstanding study of and fascination with his ideas time well spent (I incorporated them into my master's thesis on Buddhism and the idea of well-being) I have to agree with you. I read a biography of Heidegger (by Safranski, which I highly recommend) and his moral character was certainly flawed. He comes across as an arrogant man who threw others under the bus for the sake of self-aggrandizement (his disavowing treatment of his old Jewish mentor Husserl, to whom a owed so much, was shameful to say the least). He sided with the Nazi regime, I think, not so much because it aligned with his ideas (which didn't really deal with ethics or morals to begin with), but because of the opportunity it gave him to become a leading authority figure in German academia. He was seduced by the power that Nazism promised, even though he would become rather critical of where the movement was headed, and would distance himself from the regime by the mid to late 30, partly because it was driven by a very base, anti-intellectual ideology. Nonetheless, in his private "black book" journals writings, it's clear that he's trying to rationalize antisemitism when he calls Jews a "groundless" people, never mind that he cheated on his wife with his Jewish student, Hannah Arendt (who would go on to being an outstanding philosopher herself) who was probably the only woman he truly loved, and connected with. Yet he did nothing to protect her from the Holocaust, which was certainly shameful and cowardly. Still, after the war, Arendt never lost her initial admiration for him and would defend him on the basis that he wasn't essentially wicked in being an accomplice to the one of, if not the most, evil regime the world had ever known - just a deeply misguided man who didn't see the banality of evil for what it was. It had to have been tremendously disappointing to her and his other Jewish students and former colleagues that, once he regained his status as a respected thinker, he never offered an apology for his brief (albeit initially enthusiastic) Nazi involvement or a condemnation of the Holocaust. Cowardice? Perhaps, but I think he was rather narcissistic to begin with, and unable to admit how wrong he had been in his initial support for Hitler. I think that took more moral courage or integrity than he was capable of. A groundbreaking philosopher certainly, but also a weak man unfortunately.

[@scoon2117]

Sugrue was a god damned genius.

[@bingolittle8725]

Thanks Doc

[@chenkraps9989]

Most awaited. I was astonished that Sir Surgue didn't speak about Sarte

[@username1235400]

Dr. Sugrue - TY 🙏❤️

[@phantomboy4166]

Thank you so much professor Michael.

[@leomiller2291]

Thank you Dr Sugrue!

[@paulkenyon3372]

wow gap filled fantastic ❤️👍 ❤️❤️❤️

[@ttacking_you]

Delightful lecture. Another triumph.

[@christopher.saint.christopher]

I think I've said it before, but these lectures have helped me through some shit.

[@Kantiandramaturge]

Rest in peace you absolute legend

[@andrew_70bob4]

These lectures are brilliant. And if you close your eyes, it sounds like Jerry Seinfeld is teaching you the history of western philosophy.

[@ttacking_you]

Jimmy Fallon's a little bit closer, I believe, I don't know who Dr. Sugrue sounds like? I feel like Timothy Leary or the dad from blossom

[@cheri238]

What are you? Comedians ? LOL

[@trippy6183]

Thank you for your work.

[@YourPalFootFoot]

9:20 Please correct me if I've misunderstood but I thought this word was geworfenheit?

[@LongDuree]

What teaching company course was this part of … I thought I had seen them all

[@jhkjhkhjkkjhkjh5881]

So good. Thank you

[@LongDuree]

This must be an earlier edition of the great minds of the intellectual tradition … because in the addition I have Heidegger has its own lecture … but I enjoyed what is new content to me… comparison of the key existentialists useful…seeing 20th century existentialism as an extension of 19th century romanticism keeping rationalist tendencies in check … we have the same problem with 21st century with artificial intelligence … the perennial problem and tension of what it means to be human

[@nickdomenicos5987]

I miss him.

[@philosophy_schilling]

Also, I (and Bertrand Russell) would say there are solutions to philosophical questions, but when we have those solutions, they turn into a separate discipline.

[@chungchihsu2000]

Read Sartre for yourself. An irreplaceable experience. Fortunately, there is English translation. The Chinese translation is incomprehensible for Chinese.

[@69SalterStreet]

I am so grateful for this mind-food

[@content_betty]

lmfao at “Dasein for heidegger is.. i dunno”

[@joon5968]

can anyone please tell me what the intro piece is?

[@stephenfegely]

TY 🦉

[@mikhaelvallena7298]

Is Fyodor Dostoevsky considered a precursor of existentialism as well because his novels have somewhat existentialist themes?

[@sholoms]

Yes, by many.

[@aesop1451]

It would be useful to analyze existentialism in light of process philosophy. Process ontology allows for a metaphysical system that doesn't fall prey to Heidegger's criticism of post-Socratic metaphysics and Sartre's criticism of essentialism. You will find that that the religious existentialists like Kierkegaard, Marcel, Jaspers, and Tillich are more at home with "atheist" existentialists like Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. Your average theist (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) would consider religious existentialism heretical. I see process philosophy, pragmatism, and existentialism as the "three teachings" of the West analogous to Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism respectively. When Buddhism became religious and devotional (like in the Pure Land and Nichiren sects), the influence of Taoism on Buddhism led to Zen Buddhism. So yes, existentialism without process philosophy can sometimes sound like talking in circles or talking about nothing.

[@Brecf2p]

Great video. Is the criticism of "as many understandings as understanders" applicable to every dogma as well? Every believer has their own take on the god/philosphy they believe in?

[@OnerousEthic]

The last 10 minutes of this lecture are both phenomenally rewarding to comprehend, and phenomenally difficult to understand, IMHO! I had to listen many times to follow the brilliance of Sugrue, lecturing as if he were standing on the shoulders of Heidegger and Sartre! Or is it the last 20 minutes? Or the last 45?

[@Jefa_Adili]

True i had to literally; turn on the [cc], decrease speed to 7.5, and attempt to write every word he said in those last 15 minutes or so! Why? Same reason as you describe

[@TehPieLuver]

SHIIIIEEEETTT Sugrue on Sartre here we come

[@sholoms]

Beneath your comment here, YT(I guess) subtitles, "Translate to English" (!!)

[@pinosantilli3371]

Ahh, ways of avoiding the burdens of freedom! That sounds very familiar...especially nowadays!

[@joewesterland5697]

If we had a machine that was capable of providing us with knowledge of our future action, becoming aware of that knowledge would change our future actions. It would end up in a kind of feed back loop.

[@timangar9771]

Amazing!

[@torsion2]

'better a hellish silence than a purgatory full of scientists'

[@MsClaireEverett]

The professor might be the only person that can fully convince me of the value of a philosopher/philosophical movement then eviscerate it completely and make its flaws naked and bare.

[@fatalinsomn1a182]

This guy is awesome.

[@cinnamon4605]

Thank you.

[@straightballin172]

M. Surge is intelligent & humble

[@anaveragechannel468]

Didint he say in his other Heidigger lecture that the feeling of being unwillingly in the world is "Geworfenheit"= to be thrown, intead of "Empfindlichkeit"= sensitivity?

[@tbillyjoeroth]

Did Dr. Sugrue do a talk about Camus, or Gabriel Marcel? Seems like I used to be able to search a specific channel but not anymore. I think Marcel chose hope vs despair unlike Sartre.

[@maolsheachlannoceallaigh4772]

Professor Sugrue actually struggles for words for a second or two at 4:20. In anyone else, this wouldn't be the slightest bit notable! His fluency is amazing.

[@okwaleedpoetry]

420

[@shaunkerr8721]

Man as social creature: Positivist Man as individual creature: Continental Man: Agents attuned to physiological individuality AND psychological sociality who is ultimately concerned with individual psychologies AND social physicality

[@nicogrande6583]

Engagement. Thank ya kindly.

[@Alex_Vlass]

32:26 Sartre’s opinion here shows his commitment to himself and his own insincere opinions which he cared more for over that of truth. As an Orthodox Christian, I don’t buy into Spinoza’s theistic determinism, so Sartre didn’t have to deny God because this argument, it’s completely illogical to deny God off these grounds regardless, but it shows Sartre’s commitment to dogmatic free will over truth-not that he held anything was necessarily “true”, which is a self defeating position in of itself.

[@michaelgunther6039]

How many of these are yet to be uploaded?!?!

[@helpconflict9851]

great lecture

[@ttacking_you]

There's a great Woody Allen movie on KZbin where they talk about metaphysics and philosophy it's based on Tolstoy's war and Peace I think it's called love and death. It's VERY good I'd link it but they might pull this down

[@Josephus_vanDenElzen]

27:55 yes

[@lucasheuring3170]

now...

[@rushikeshhiray03]

If you guys have a hidden lecture on Albert Camus , I am going to lose my mind..

[@phinehasochayi3900]

Me too