The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - The Gilgamesh Epic 

He's a university lecturer. It's his job.

@@metalcomposition Name a university lecturer today who has as broad a base of knowledge as Mr. Sugrue and who can speak coherently on it? If so, please link me to them. His kind simply doesn't exist anymore

@@gocoastal1988 broad being the key word. This lecture offers nothing intellectually. It’s standard academic self flagellation. Notice how in the comments no one actually has anything to say.

@@Cfb8402 that may be true, but for most people (me included) even broad strokes about these subjects can be enriching. also, if you could give an example of a lecturer that offers something intellectually, as you put it, i would appreciate it. i dont mean to come across as confrontational, i'm new to this area of interest and would genuinely like to delve deeper.

@@KBBali hi. I listened to it again while running errands to see if I had been unfair in my assessment, but I stand by what I said. I’ll answer your question with a question: if you find my comment unfair, what about this lecture sparked intellectual curiosity within you? If you would like recommendations, which topic would you like?

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Glad to hear it! The lecture on Shakespeare: Measure for Measure will be up in a few hours.

@@dr.michaelsugrue I have listened to your Marcus Aurelius lecture ten times in the past year and a half since I’ve found it. Thank you. I’m grateful for your work.

@@dr.michaelsugrue quid pro quo, you may enjoy our video on the most important (and accordingly the most famous and most quoted) words ever written in English language: the "to be or not to be..." speech from Hamlet. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7R5_r2jN1fo.html

@@dr.michaelsugrue Thank you for these uploads. I appreciate that you do not inject any politics or bias into your lectures.

@@dr.michaelsugrue please upload more lectures, i loved your Marcus Aurelius lecture

Thank You! 💞🥺

U deserve a sub for your service

Excellent work!

You can create your playlist, if you do, please share :)

I hope this is not too late! Put, "In Order" into your search parameters. Great topic for Atheists! I only wish there were a god! then we could get rid of fascist politicians like Rump and the Repugnant-KKK-kins. Bring back democracy to America. All saints preserve us!

Part I, Lectures-- The Gilgamesh Epic; Genesis- Introduction to Biblical Study; Exodus- Toward the Law; Job and the Problem of Evil; Isaiah- Swords into Plowshares; Matthew- The New Law; Luke and Acts- From Jerusalem to Rome; John- The Unbroken Net of Scripture; The Pauline Tradition; Revelation and the Eschaton; Augustine and the Christian Self; Meister Eckhart- From Whom God Hid Nothing. Part II, Lectures-- Justice and Poetry- Dante's Book of the Dead; Ugolino- Dante's Last "Sympathetic Sinner"; Cantos I & II of Purgatorio- Typology and Poetry; Utopia- Between Heaven and Earth; Luther and the Reformation; Shakespeare- Measure for Measure; Milton- Paradise Lost; Hume, Swift, and the Collapse of Deism; Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith; Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and the Book of Revelation; Nietzsche and the Death of God; Joyce- From Religion to Art

@@gregorygarcia7807 Some casuistic incontinence happening here. Republicans are not the KKK, nor are they fascists. Trump is a cartoon: laughable and grotesque, but ultimately a feckless pretender. The actual threat to reason and democracy is the ideological tsunami of Wokeism engulfing us as the identity profiteers and language launderers of the radical Left release their bladders all over Western civilization. They are the true authoritarians, and Trump is the monster summoned in response to their delusional and incoherent cultish incantations, and now used strategically to justify their own vindictive, revanchist crusade.

@@willmercury This is also my take as a non-American. The view you replied to seems to be due to many American news companies form an echo chamber together. It's easy to see how media like tv and internet are the shadows on the wall in Plato's Cave allegory. What I found is when fact checking rigorously mainstream media has stuff wrong a lot of the time (when they bother giving their sources). Also many issues, that get presented, get described wrongly and therefore the solution presented to the viewer often makes things worse. Objectivity is dead in legacy media is my conclusion. It's sad but seems like a product of the internet revolution, making cable a dying industry which can pushes companies to adapt, often resulting in shady practices.

Ya the lectures are great, his progeny (T Sugrue) is posting these I believe

I also just came across the "Premodernist" channel on youtube. Remarkably similar delivery of fascinating history

@Michael Kean I am humbled by your manliness and eloquence. Thank you for this opportunity to practice my compassion.

@Michael Kean You might want to try and wrap your head around a pretty simple concept. “Go Lions” is not about athletics at all, it is about celebrating a common educational and cultural heritage. It is about being fortunate enough to have attended one of the best universities in the world while also living in one of the most exciting cities in the world, New York City. Your comments, meanwhile, demonstrate your bitterness and resentment, and it is exactly these feelings that make and keep you unhappy, not the other way around. I feel compassion towards you because you seem not to understand any of this. Get well and be well.

@Michael Kean watch the Marcus Aurelius lecture.

Im also looking to listen to all the lectures in order

I included

Me too ✋️

Here another! 🤚

How do you square his position with the Catholic dogma that the Bible is the inerrant and divinely inspired word of God? I was enjoying this lecture until he began reducing the Bible to a bastardized mythology.

How you could work this into a wedding speech i would love to know

Yes, there must be someone out there who has copies of the missing lectures! Just audio would do! Anybody?!

@@mradrian1106 This was very helpful; thank you.

@@barspinoza That's great to hear! Also I added some new information I've found into my previous comment (About unseen lectures in that series, like one on Machiavelli, one on Platos Symposium, and one on Sartre and Heidegger, and some other completely missing series of lectures he did, that I DID however find the transcripts of)

Aaaand now my comment seems to have disappeared.... I was editing it, so maybe something happened. Anyway, here it is again: Hey, don't think this is exactly what you're looking for but if you search "the great minds of the western intellectual tradition 1992" on google and click on the first youtube link that pops up, you get the lecture series that Michael Sugrue's lectures are a part of (and some lectures that are not available on his youtube channel, like one on Machiavelli, one on Platos Symposium, and one on Sartre and Heidegger), with lots of other people, it was apparently from some tape that was made back in the 92 which was pretty interesting to find. It's weird cause you can't even find this if you search it up on youtube, so it seems to be an unlisted playlist or something, idk. It does not have these bible lectures, however. And Sugrue also has a new little podcast with his daughter apparently, on spotify called "The idea store". It's not the greatest quality in terms of sound and disturbances (The occasional dog bark in the background), but it's interesting to hear. And he has some Q&A episodes on there too. And it's funny to hear because he curses quite a bit on there too, haha! Oh and I thought I'd add: I saw a snippet of a lecture Michael Sugrue did on Parmenides, and I was very intrigued. Turns out the original full lecture on youtube was taken down, but I did actually find a website that has taken transcripts of that whole lecture and 10 other lectures that seemed to make up a whole series of lectures about Plato and Platonic Dialouges (That I've never seen anywhere else, so this feels like finding old philosophy fragments and remnants from the past haha.) I posted a comment with a link somewhere else but it seems like youtube removed it cause it had the full link or something. But if you search "Michael Sugrue Plato - Lecture 11 - Sake in Haiku Out" it should be the first one that pops up, it's the one that says bashfulbasho in the title of the website. They were uploaded in 2018, so I doubt that they are going anywhere, but just as a safety measure, I copied them all up as word documents on my computer, in case they ever disappear.

You might start with the Bible and then the others in chronological order.

@@dr.michaelsugrue Thank you😀

Start with Pythagoras

What do you mean

No, we cannot because we do not own the copyright.

I found a lot of great lectures on "Philosophy Overdose" particularly all of Dan Robinson's lectures. Love that man.

no revolutionary epics, always supporrt/legitimize the powers that be. Justifies the aristocracy

No. No. No.

@@dr.michaelsugrue Fair enough maestro! I appreciate the reply and will continue with your content!

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