Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Cervantes, Don Quixote

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[mega]

RIP Professor, You've changed my life. I will be sure to continue my philosophical journey with you in mind

Homage to Michael Sugrue

[ngsmiley]

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[payamarasta]

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[stayniftyGuyFaceMannPersonDude]

Don Quixote is symbolic of the naive discovering true wisdom, and not leaving the wisdom of their naive experiences behind.

[hafman]

What a wonderfully beautiful set of lectures! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL, is the correct word. Thank you for making these available to us. I continue to listen to you, today, in your current lectures and videos on YouTube. Much love.

[philipestrin]

This guy’s lectures are absolutely great. All novels, both in the Canon and out of it, whether comic or otherwise, owe their existence to Don Quixote. It is not only absolutely laugh-out-loud hilarious (and Cervantes is not above employing some fart jokes), it is deeply profound, possesses nobility of spirit and, on so many pages, touches the heart.

However, Prof. Sugrue calls Don Quixote himself the greatest comic hero in Western literature. In my opinion, that honor is a toss up between Quixote and Leopold Bloom.

[Montesr]

Reading it in Spanish at the moment and I’m just blown away by the use of the Castilian language

[enlightenedanalysis]

Excellent and I really enjoyed this. Specially the section on Lothario.

[Growmetheus]

After reflecting on this, I found much wisdom. One I would like to share what is about the faculty of the human mind, how we develop logic and don't just rely on instincts. Our cat can hear a sound and run away where human knows what it is based on experience. It really goes to show that in the past, we could never really rely on instinct, and any fantasy would be destroyed.

[thattimestampguy]

0:29 It’s comical
1:53 Quixote inflates life
Dysjunction at center of laughter and pity 🎭
3:52 Living imaginatively
4:48 Panza
The World should be as it ought to be
Panza - reliable, predictable, comprehensible

5:57 Dolcinea - 6:18 TheEternalFeminine

8:37 Binocular Vision
Moral Grandeur
Hopeful Inspiring
Ponderous and Elephantine
9:58 Digression
10:41 Pseudo-Epic

*Average Man —> Living Imaginatively*
11:20 He’s read too many books 📚
12:49 Into The Inn
14:15 Same problems, different understandings of them
15:15 The Windmills
16:30 The Sheep 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
18:12 Mambrino’s Helmet 🪖
19:57 Chivalry: Sustains and Demands Acts of Faith
21:39 Challenge of a Virtuous Wife
23:43 Wineskins, no talking to a Knight.
25:04 None of us laugh at Quixotes intentions

*Book 2*
Quixote Vs The World 26:10
26:56 Keep this delusional man home
27:47 Idealists hurt by their victories as much as their defeats
32:01 Lion 🦁
35:44 The butt of other Peoples jokes, people take advantage of him, Panza gets to rule an imaginary island 🏝

Panza grows in leadership ability
39:03 Squire promotion
Knight of the white moon 🌙 victory
Don Quixote accepts defeat

39:58 herd of swine 🐷 🐖 🐷 🐖
40:34 Alonzo Ciano
43:54 Pathetic

Great Comedians can make you cry too.

[chokin]

I love prof. Sugrue's lectures, and this one in particular gets really close to home as I am a Spanish native speaker and read the Quixote in its original language. I'm impressed by the intuitions he was able to dig up from a translation in English and they really got me thinking. One of the points I don't fully agree is that of our beloved Quixote being an example of heroism. If you are as crazy as him you can't be a hero. I think the virtue the Don Quixote seems to highlight in between the lines is that of an unrelenting friendship with his faithful Sancho. Friendship is a very common Spanish virtue. My two cents.

[mynamemyself]

I remember my first time reading don Quixote, I cried and my heart was broken when he said: "yo fui loco y ya soy cuerdo" and when he admitted what was his real name. I'll never forget you donquixote.

[CharlesAustin]

‘Workin my way through .. the first of many more times..thoughtful ever .. so amazing !!

[obladioblada]

Really amazing! I'm a Law student and this lectures provides me a lot of insights.

[shakespearaamina]

This is an exceptional lecture indeed ☺️ Thank you!

[MegaFount]

Thank you for your beautiful incisive perceptions. Illuminating and enlightening. I shall now tackle reading Don Quixote.

[sidewithseeds]

I'll be enjoying this at least once a year for the rest of my life.

[B-yn]

Love hearing Dr.Sugrue w/o the invasive commentary from that global marketing lady on his more recent lectures 😊

[TheMaverickanupam]

Like Don Quixote, your spirit will also live on forever.

[bsirius]

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza’s who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote’s with a sense for ideals, but mad.”
— George Santayana
"Sanity" is very much overrated....