Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic VI-X: The Architecture of Reality

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[tinfoilhatscholar]

Rest in peace professor, you will be missed! Michael Sugrue's passion for Plato and specifically 'the Republic', will not be forgotten. Thank you 🙏

[TheArdipithecus]

This channel is like finding a pile of gold in the wilderness...how will I ever spend it all when I get out?

[mellownuance]

And I went about studying Engineering in college, if I had known that this is what philosophy was all about ... Amazing concepts!

And this gentleman, such a marvelous orator!

[thattimestampguy]

13:18 Mathematics
15:54 The Bridge to Fixed, Permanent, Reality, Natural Law.
20:30 Realms/Forms of Truth
Forms of Beauty
22:28 Dialectic - Figure things out by talking together

23:40 The Myth of The Cave,
The Shadows - (False) Reality, What we can sense
The Sun - True Reality, What makes being possible
26:17 The Journey is Asymptotic

[pedroheberle]

"All knowledge is virtue, and all ignorance is vice — so all our vices are, really, ignorance."

I profoundly believe that.

[mbkr]

Mr Sugrue one of the highest calibers lecturers of the modern day. Thank you sir.

[johnnypingsmusic]

I’m rewatching these old videos and hoping the insights that the late Professor had on The Republic will be shared at some point. I am ever intrigued by Plato’s Republic and interested in the unique reading that Dr Sugrue claimed he would share with us. Many thanks for sharing these videos and keeping them available

[aimowenaim]

I love this. I hope you continue uploading this lecture series. I also have to thank Michael Sugrue for attracting me to stoicism after I saw his rockstar lecture on stoicism and Marcus Aurelius. Reading Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius has had a very real and beneficial impact on my life.

I do have a question.

I read the republic in high school, not for class I was just pretentious. It always struck me as very similar to brave new world, and in other ways 1984, in that he creates something he calls a perfect city but that would be in practice a hell. I also find that Socrates has conversations where he will use a chain of logic to come to conclusions that I in someway know is incorrect but can’t quite place my finger on where in the chain that I agreed with there is a mistake.

Cheers!

[benbauch]

Sugrue your lectures are thought provoking and dynamic, thank you so much for masterfully introducing me to my love of wisdom, best

[MegaFount]

It’s like getting a mind infusion. You feel your intellect elevated tremendously. I love The Republic which is so brilliant.

[TexKimball]

I won't lie, as an artist myself, I was initially a bit disturbed by Socrates' view on poets/artists being imitators who don't offer much real value towards a common good, in particular, they typically further deception, which in many cases may be true. But I must say, the last few minutes of this lecture really made me feel better about the path I've chosen haha. It makes me as an artist really crave knowledge and understanding of things I don't know, which is why I'm enjoying these philosophy lectures as I work! I've always wanted my art and stories to represent ideals, virtues, reasoning and sober thought, and to be useful to others to learn about something they're not familiar with or reflect on their own view of the world, ultimately in search of truth (as is the function of many stories or mythos) so learning about this has actually encouraged me to pursue this even more. I still have so much more to learn.

Dr. Sugrue, your lecture style really brings these topics to life in a way that lets someone like me absorb and meditate on these ideas. Your channel is amazing.

[schleichface]

In addition to the many superb quotes already cited here in the comments:
"When I first read this, I didn't know books could do stuff like that."
"When I found this out, it just made my weekend."
Right on.
To extrapolate all the crucial themes of this work and make them accessible without compromising their complexity and sophistication is a remarkable achievement. I appreciate your work, Dr. Sugrue.

[jjvid]

Wow! 5:52 Yes! "The real corruption comes from the people themselves in EVERY city; IGNORANCE is the source of all corruption and evil." Thank you again, Dr. Sugrue...I could've used this profound acknowledgement decades ago as part of my arsenal of "intellectual self defense" (a term I first heard from Noam Chomsky) against our broken society. My lack of understanding of the source of corruption and evil cost me so much energy and heartache over the years due to the confusion that this lack of understanding creates.

[core_english]

This professor had such clear passion for his subject. It's a joy to watch him teach. Lucky students who had the chance to take his live classes.

[bulkington]

Thanks Dr. Sugrue! Mad props to the camera people who captured your style meticulously!

[jacquelinewolf-xwcs]

I am so happy and grateful to have found these videos. Thank you.

[aleksandarstojkovic]

This is a really energetic and deeply healthy interpretation of Plato. Greetings from Serbia

[TravelingPhilosopher]

Dr. Michael Sugrue in his prime was a phenomenal orator and educator!

[danielmotamedi]

Every one of your lectures is amazing. I hope you continue to publish all of them. Thank you for doing this, I spent a great deal of time and effort attempting to find more of your work after hearing the lecture on Marcus Aurelius. I know it's unlikely but I wish you would do an educational podcast.

[jjvid]

45:22 Bravo! Yes! It IS up to us as individuals. We DO have power both during and after this life seemingly dominated by individual helplessness/powerlessness. Upon spiritual transformation (ie: awakening/becoming conscious of every moment in this life, as well as upon death) we have the opportunity of respons-ibility (Response-ability).