Physics and the Structure of History

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Dr. Michael Sugrue earned his BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University.

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Hoping for Mike Sugrue’s Health ❤🙏🏼

0:24
_The History of The World_
As an organizing structure
For all the social sciences

1:02
History is the central dividing line
In understanding social sciences
• Politics, Ethics, Law
• Literature, Art, Religion

1:47
Philip Curtain offered Mike Sugrue the job of creating a History of The World class
2:07 This is a difficult job.

3:25 (Explaining what Human beings are and what they do and why they do what they do is complicated)
3:52 Human beings do things for purposes.

4:25 -Ex. John Wilkes Booth—
• Bullets have speed/velocity/acceleration
• Bullets do not have moral conduct or reasons of their own, (bullets don’t purpose themselves)

6:00 Human Beings have a level of complexity unlike other species on this planet.

6:25 Relating Physics and Social Science

6:50 _Every time we have a scientific revolution, there is of necessity a corresponding revolution in the human sciences._

8:53 Evolutionary Biology and History are Continuous Activities.

9:10 Man’s Creating and Deploying of Symbols.
9:50 Symbols carry knowledge (forward from generation to generation)
• Symbols bank 🏦 socially accessible knowledge
• The bank 🏦 of symbols over time builds interest (which benefits human knowledge capital)

10:27
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences

Scientific Revolution
Social Sciences Revolution

11:00
Mythical Physics
600 BC First Scientific Revolution, Demythologizing.

*Sophists*
12:08 A clever speaker can use misunderstanding to get an advantage over other people

*Thucydides*
12:58 Big Eats Small. Predator Eats Prey.

*Plato, Socratic Dialouge*
14:10 The Unity of Logos and Eros, of Truth/Wisdom/Reason and Love.

*Tzu Yen and The Chinese Naturalists, circa 300 BC*
16:29 Naturalist Chinese Understanding of Nature.
• Eclipses are natural, and predictable.

18:40 Practical, non-supernatural understanding of the world leads to a build up of measured 📏 examples.

19:20
Sparta Defeated Athens

China maintained Order with Their Great Wall.

_Chinese Innovations_
20:40
+ The Printing Press
+ Paper 📄 (of course, The Egyptians had it early on)
+ Gunpowder
+ Moveable Type
+ The Mariner’s Compass 🧭

22:07 China and Greece shared in a similar Scientific Revolution.

23:05 The West, Persia, India, China, and the Transformative Invention that is Gunpowder! 💥

24:57
Learning about the world around us prompts us to ask questions about ourselves. Prompts us to use new sets of assumptions.

Renaissance, a rediscovery of Ancient Knowledge
27:34 The Medieval God’s Eye View
28:44 The Human-Eye View. (Humanism)
30:58 Humanizing.
Machiavelli’s This-Worldly Heroic View of Politics

Hobbes Dangerous World of Survival

32:42 Galileo and the moons of Jupiter. Copernicus, Kepler, Issac Newton. Calculus.

34:40
Hamlet
To Man as Accident

36:00 1905 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

The Observer
The Observed
Exertion upon The Observed by The Observer

37:10 Charles Dickens and Dostoyevsky

Books 📚
Electricity ⚡️
BIG AND SMALL

38:09 History is Accelerating

Science 5.0

38:43 The Complexity is Astonishing.

Ex. Freud’s view of Hunan Nature.
Ex. Descartes view of Human Nature

The Atom ⚛️
The Atom Splitter ⚛️💥

41:02
Conscious
Physical and Symbolic
PsychoAnalysis

42:49
Colonialism
World War
European Loss of Global Dominance
US vs USSR

43:45 The New Scientific Understanding and History.

44:27 Religion as foundational aspect of History

[robertkaplan]

I won't keep posting these, RIP Professor, you are learning quite a bit more now. I'm extremely grateful for Professor Sugrue bringing wisdom to those of us who haven't had the college education we wanted. Still learning and won't ever stop.

[loopstrange]

This was posted just a month ago, saddened to learn that he passed away earlier today. RIP Dr Sugrue, you have inspired many.

[KellyBell]

🙏I’m so SAD to learn that this beautiful, wonderful, amazing Professor passed away in Feb. Perhaps this is how I came across his video on my feed recently. I have been watching his lectures.
I wish he was here to explain what is happening to us today. I mean in US and the world. Would love to have heard his ideas. I’m sorry he suffered with cancer. Perhaps this why his mouth is so dry, from side effects of treatment. I’ve been there and still struggle with dry mouth daily.
Rest in Peace wonderful Teacher.❤

[jordantheconjurer]

Rest in Peace Dr! I just encountered you in my life and now I can't believe your gone. Eternally grateful for your lectures and knowledge, it has transformed my understanding of everything for the better

[YassinBannari-pcky]

Thank you Dr. Sugrue. You introduced me to philosophy, you made learning fun again. When I found your channel, I was skipping university and abusing prescriptions. I started to watch your channel every day as I was rediscovering myself and coming to grips with my problems. You inspired me to finish my bachelor’s degree, Im getting my last few courses this winter. I never had a father and you seemed like a good role model haha. I found god for a while and now I have a very complicated relationship with faith, but its enriched my life significantly. Ive gone on enough about myself, the point is, you’ve touched my life more than you could have ever known. Thank you for everything, you will be missed. Thank you Gen for this channel and the opportunity to see this side of your father, good luck to you going forward

[BackOfTheMob]

So glad you’re starting to feel better! I’m not particularly religious, but sending all the positive energy I can muster your way. We still have so much left to learn from you and the world needs a voice like yours now more than ever. Can’t wait to read your book as well.

[cheri]

Professor Sugre, we love you, and you give your all.
Thank you, with all my heart.❤

[matthewfrueh]

Rest well, Dr. Your lectures are such a gift!

[BillyAsWell]

Dr. Sugrue is a true educator. Eloquent and impartial, while also being incisive and impactful.

[jamesboland]

Stay strong Professor, I pray for your well being and recovery, I get so much from your knowledge, wisdom and spirit, eternally grateful for all your contributions.

[harnitkang]

An excellent orator and explainer of Western philosophy~ particularly enjoyed his talk on Machiavelli ~ v. sorry to hear of his passing~RIP

[theb-sideapostleslarryupdi]

So sad to hear of Dr Sugrue’s passing. What a wonderful teacher.

[Tfwest]

Rest in peace Professor, the greatest philosophical educator on the internet <333

[grantwarfield]

Professor Sugre, I recently started listening to your lectures and I’ve learned an unbelievable amount. You are truly a gifted teacher. Praying for your health and wellbeing. God Bless.

[samisaac-kken]

I'm grateful to
Michael Sugrue education that obtaining thru YouTube channel Thank you keep going while you CAN.

[danielconnelly]

RIP Dr. Sugrue. Truly a great orator and intellectual. May his soul rest in peace.

[michealcline]

So, sad to hear... I enjoyed these, and you will be missed Dr... Thank you.

[parliecharker]

I hope your health improves, Dr. Sugrue! You have given so much to me and so many other people.

[obadiah]

Since this video was published 13 hours ago, I have listened to it 5 times. Here are just two small ways this lecture 'blessed' me. First, I consider Sugrue a role model not just because he taught and inspired so many students, is considered an intellectual giant, and combines witty humor with deep penetrating insights, but mostly because of my admiration for his tenacity. It is rare to witness someone so dedicated to his craft. Second, this lecture helped reveal a pattern. Surgrue never let go of his initial "a-ha" moment while thinking about the challenge of writing a course on world history as he walked through the John Hopkins Library. Certainly, the vicissitudes of professorial life (grading papers, updating syllabuses, and teaching recalcitrant undergraduates) delayed actualizing or bringing to fruition what was originally planted in his soul as a post-doc adjunct, core passion. Still, nevertheless, thanks to YouTube, his daughter, and some of his disciples, we get to enjoy another stellar lecture. Today you gave us the outline for your book on World History. It may not be enough, but at least we could theoretically make a table of contents for your book now. THANK YOU!!!!