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When I was 4 years old, my dad decided that it was time for my intro to philosophy. So he told me, "Did you know that I get all my ideas at the idea store?". This didn't sit well with me and I kept insisting "No you don't!". For the next two years, many car rides were spent talking about the idea store. It baffled my little mind but I kept trying to reason with him the best I could. At age 6 I found the solution. "You can't see and touch ideas. You can only buy things you can see and touch. Ideas are different". My dad was ecstatic. He had just taught his daughter the basics of metaphysics. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

Genevieve Sugrue


    • Dec 22, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    Christmas Special: Poetry and More

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 27:09


    We had a chance to sit down again and talk about some of our favorite writers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Marcus Aurelius

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2022 83:54


    You can find The Meditations here https://amzn.to/3wAbIr6 If hell can be a state of mind, so can peace. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Horace and Juvenal

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2022 75:01


    You can find Horace's work here https://amzn.to/3QQs8U4 and Juvenal's work here https://amzn.to/3wgtPlM Sometimes, when shit hits the fan, all you can do is laugh --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: The History of The World

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 83:28


    Here's everything as we know it. What now? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Don Quixote

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 66:13


    You can find "Don Quixote" here A not-so-gallant knight's adventures --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Measure For Measure

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2022 79:45


    You can find "Measure For Measure" here Shakespeare's most misunderstood (and in our opinion, most underrated) play --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Montagine

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 81:12


    The essays of Michel de Montagine --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Machiavelli

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2022 88:37


    Class recording "The Prince" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    The Deep South (1990's audio)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 47:08


    Second lecture on colonial America --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    The Middle Colonies (1990's audio)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 45:07


    The first of two lectures on early American history --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Ockham and Meister Eckhart

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 94:14


    Great theologians of the late middle ages --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Great Minds (1992 audio), Moliere

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2022 44:00


    Moliere's The Misanthrope. Thank you to the listener who supplied us with the audio! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Purgatorio and Paradiso

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 78:33


    We've climbed our way out of hell, but what's beyond? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanties Seminar: Dante's Inferno

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022 78:02


    We're taking a trip through Hell lead by Virgil and Dr. Sugrue --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanties Seminar: The Qur'an

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 96:29


    All about the Islamic holy book --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Augustine's Confessions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2022 91:14


    A hugely important piece of early Christian literature that asks "is reason enough"? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: The Aeneid

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 61:35


    The Roman epic --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Lucretius' "On The Nature of Things"

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 108:58


    Things are as they seem, what more do you want? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Aristotle's Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2022 68:36


    The golden mean is needed under every regime --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar, Nicomachean Ethics

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 108:55


    Aristotle's deep dive into practical knowledge and how to use it --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Plato's Republic

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2022 152:59


    The city is like the man --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Plato's Symposium

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2022 148:30


    A toast to eros! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Five Dialogues about Socrates

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022 100:42


    The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Aristophanes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 103:11


    Let's talk Greek comedy and the roaringly funny, Aristophanes! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Euripides

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 143:44


    Discussion on the ancient Tarantino himself: Euripides. His work includes The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and Medea. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Sophocles

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 111:19


    Let's talk about the author of the Oedipus trilogy, Greek tragedian Sophocles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: The Oresteia

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 75:53


    Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and blood vendetta in the house of Atreus --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Thucydides

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 145:40


    Recorded by a student in the 2018-2019 school year --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Herodotus

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 43:41


    Class recording of Dr. Sugrue teaching on ancient historian Herodotus --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Humanities Seminar: Presocratics and Sophists

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022 171:32


    First in a series of classes given between September 2018 to April 2019 by Dr. Michael Sugrue --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    HUM 309 Audio "Piaget's Structuralism"

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 86:51


    Student recording (February 2020) from Dr. Sugrue's classroom --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Thomas More's "Utopia"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 19:18


    Let's talk about Utopia and the fascinating man who wrote it --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A Part 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 43:04


    The first question got cut off but it was "How did your study of so many conflicting ideas affect your moral compass? Do you tend to selectively integrate aspects of philosophy in your daily life or find yourself more averted to filter ideas through any lens?" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Conceptions of Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 26:27


    What is time? How do you know? How have archaic people thought about time? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Moral Chaos and Cormac McCarthy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021 20:46


    Free association on civilization and it's frightening alternatives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    HUM 309 audio- Max Weber's Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2021 64:08


    Early 2020 class on turn-of-the-century German sociologist, Max Weber. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Poetry (19th and 20th century)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 14:13


    Today we're talking about Dickinson, Auden, Yeats, Eliot, and more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    HUM 309 audio "Brave New World"-Huxley

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2021 88:31


    "Brave New World" is one of the most impactful novels of the 20th century. This is one of my favorite formal audios so far, I hope it is for you all as well. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    HUM 309 audio- James Joyce

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 74:06


    Dr. Sugrue's lecture on "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". We are Irish, so Joyce is both an excellent author and a source of pride. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A (Part 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 23:44


    Let's talk about Nihilism, addiction, the French tradition, and much more. A bit of a different style today since this audio was recorded all in one take. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    HUM 309 audio - Dostoevsky

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2021 96:52


    Recording taken by a student before Dr. Sugrue retired. All episodes titled "HUM 309" are from a class he taught. We hope you enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Foucault's "History of Sexuality"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 14:56


    Post-modernism and the hyper-concentrated will to power. Ideas have consequences, but at least Foucault was consistent. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Nietzsche

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 17:56


    Let's talk about the man, the myth, the legend (and the terror): Friedrich Nietzsche. Usually the podcast is recorded in our living room. Since I'm at university, this episode is the audio recording of a FaceTime call between Dr. Sugrue and I. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A (Part 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2021 36:07


    Let's talk about the necessity of religion! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Moliere's “The Misantrope”

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 12:02


    Comedy can be cognitive, and this play is a perfect example --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A (Part 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 42:59


    Platonic Forms vs Universal Grammar, Hobbes vs Locke, and playing chess against Grandmaster Larsen. Please excuse any squeaking you hear later in the episode. Our dog was outside and sad to be excluded. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2021 37:17


    Advice on starting the intellectual life, thoughts on Nietzsche's fascism, studying philosophy in university vs independently, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Audience Q&A (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 56:13


    Dr. Sugrue answers seven selected questions from listener comments --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    War and Peace

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2021 18:42


    We should all see The Grand Canyon at least once. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    Utilitarianism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2021 14:55


    Today we're diving into 19th century British philosophy—“The greatest good for the greatest number”. It's questionable at times, but it gets the job done --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

    The Brothers Karamazov (Part 3, The Finale)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2021 18:49


    Ivan meets the devil, Dmitri's falsely accused of murder, and we learn far more about the human psyche than we'd like to. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support

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