Sartre and Heidegger 

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

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

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

RIP one of the greatest

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

The great professor Sugrue ❤ thank you wherever you are now

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

New Sugrue? Don't mind if I do.

Brilliant teacher. Thank you.

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.

Thank you Dr Sugrue!

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

Thanks Doc

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'.

Thanks again for the upload Professor Sugrue. 👍

What a beautiful lecture

What a beautiful lecture thank you

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

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

Dr. Sugrue - TY 🙏❤️

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

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.

A NEW LECTURE AT LAST THANK YOU MR SUGRUE

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

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

Thank you Lord Sugrue

Delightful lecture. Another triumph.

Thank you for your work.

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.

So good. Thank you

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

Amazing!

Great way to spend my break at work.

One of the most important lectures

This guy is such a good teacher.

Camus can do, but Sartre is smartre

Thank you.

great lecture

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").

Thank you so much professor Michael.

thank you

I am so grateful for this mind-food

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.

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

wow gap filled fantastic ❤️👍 ❤️❤️❤️

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 🙏

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

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

37:50 onwards is the best summary of Existentialism I've heard.

this man could change the world

TY 🦉

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

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.

Nice

I love this guy.

Engagement. Thank ya kindly.

This guy is awesome.

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

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

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.

Who is uploading these gems

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

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

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?

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

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

It's hard to be an existentialist on a sunny day.

M. Surge is intelligent & humble

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.

can anyone please tell me what the intro piece is?

Rest in peace you absolute legend

Mega.

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?

SHIIIIEEEETTT Sugrue on Sartre here we come

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

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

If only I found these lectures 35 years ago

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.

sugrue always in the most liminal locations

another banger

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

Anybody have advice on reading "Being and nothingness" by Sartre? Can't really wrap my head around it.

I miss him.

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

There's a great Woody Allen movie on RU-vid 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

LETS GOOOOOOO

when were these lectures recorded?

The metaphor of "playing tennis with the net down" doesn't allow the existential viewpoint to be properly understood. Existentialism leans into the forces which constantly erect nominal nets. The Dasein of existentialism is never forward of the net being down. The dialectic between existentialism and what existentialism intends to reveal as without ground, never collapses. It's not a situation which draws out despair, rather it draws out an active and singular Dasein (human agency). The heroism, if that is what it is, is to press forward despite groundlessness. Press forward into the Dasein which argues for ground, which never allows for there to be no net. The Dasein voice here, is both philosophical and poetic; why not use all resources which are to hand and possible. Michael appears to be thinking that humanity cannot cope with the individual being individual. The essence of existentialism is Dasein and how Dasein mediates being; a mediation which allows for being an existential individual, and allows for all else in which human occurrence has subsisted, currently subsists, and might subsist in a future. Michael is able to wonderfully depict existentialism technically, but is heart (his Dasein) isn't with the existential understanding, albeit he ends laying aside the existential viewpoint, but without revealing why, without revealing what alternative viewpoint (Dasein) he commits to.

27:55 yes

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.

Where’s the Ginsberg quote from (doors and bends)? I can’t find it anywhere.

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What happened to the chronological playlist? i have absolutely no idea where i'm at and what i've already watched 😤

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.