The Idea Store

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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