Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life World 

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

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!

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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Wish we had lecturers like this.

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

Best video ever on Husserl and Phenomenology. Jackpot!

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

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.

He’s such a pleasure to listen to!

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

Thank you immensely for your informative and enjoyable lectures.

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

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.

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

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

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

Love that jacket analogy.

Remarkably clear, coherent, and concise.

Brilliant as always

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.

Yes, thank you. Great overview of his projects.

a great lecture, thank you.

This is my favorite Dr. Sugrue lecture!

You're a fantastic professor. Thank you.

This guy is simply amazing.

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.

Stunning clarity, coherence, and fluency.

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

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!!

Very well done lecture. Definitely worth a listen.

This is a great lecture.

thank you for the free education

Best way to start the year

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

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.

Thank you.

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

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

What a wonderful, engaging speaker!

Amazing lecture, thanks for sharing. Greetings from Mexico.

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

Sugrue is legendary.

Brilliant explainer.

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

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

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

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.🙏🌹

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.

Superb lecture!

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

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

excellent content

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.

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.

Thank You!

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 :)

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

thank you sir.

Fantastic🌹

Cette vidéo rend les ancêtres fiers.

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.

Very good

Outstanding 💥💨

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

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

Thank you

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

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

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

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

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

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.

GREAT!!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I have recently started reading Husserl and decided to check out this lecture. I must say, that despite the fact that the professor is obviously knowledgable and highly intellectual, he seems to not understand Husserl, and he even said so that he had troubles understanding his theories in this lecture. It is true that it's not an easy read and I do come back to the same paragraphs time and time again because the idea keeps eluding me, but the fact is that phenomenology is not exactly "just another type of philosophy". Yes, the idea of the essences is hard, but it has nothing to do with the language and the reference to Wittgenstein is not apropos. One example I can give based on what I've read and learned so far: all empirical sciences (like physics) base their theories and discoveries on Eidetic (or Ideal, Essential) sciences like logic, and moreover, the empirical sciences cannot exist without the Eidetic sciences, e.g. you can't study the outer world without having an Ideal framework to deal with it, like the laws of logic (not empirical), mathematical axioms (math is an eidetic/ideal science, not empirical). So in short, the study of the outer world must be based on some non-empirical axioms. It's just one of the things Husserl discusses.

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

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.

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

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

After watching this lecture, we are biased towards skipping the reading of Husserl’ works altogether. Is there nothing to be gained from learning Phenomenology? In science, even a failed experiment adds to our overall understanding. Why not in the humanities? Can it truly be that Husserl will only lead us down a dead end? Without explaining the ideas of Phenomenology, we have to simply take Sugrue’s word that Phenomenology is a waste of time. The level of depth this video delves is 101. Yet, Husserl wrote prolifically on the topic. Even if it is exhaustive, it still could lead to stimulation of new paths of thought in the student. Professor Sugrue took that from us with his own conclusions.

Ludwig Wittgenstein truly shines when compared to Husserl since escaping the entrapment into devolving into endless debate of essences helps predicate a more clearly defined transmission of communication based on creating pictures in the minds of others, which Wittgenstein later refined towards communication as a form of game that people play and understanding true communication with someone is comprehending the game that one is playing.

The most lucid lecturer I've encountered in physical or remote instruction.

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

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.

If you are new to Phenomenology, this polemic against Husserl is not the place to begin. I would suggest reading Husserl himself. Some of his more accessible texts include The Idea of Phenomenology, The Cartesian Meditation, or Philosophy as a Rigorous Science.

IMMEDIATE SENSORY INPUT (IMAGINATION) as cross-referenced with PREVIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF SIMILAR PARTICULAR EXPERIENCES (INTELLIGENCE) yields (seemingly) INSTANTANEOUS INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING (INTUITION). This is then REPEATED THROUGH SPACE-TIME & encoded in the genes as INSTINCT of the individual (self), the particular (family, tribe, race), and/or the Universal (The Species). (excerpt from The Holistic Integrationist, The Consortium of Dead Philosophers)