Hello, Ave Maria University has a donation fund in memory of Dr. Sugrue which will go toward the history department. You can find it here: https://www.avemaria.edu/michael-sugrue-legacy-fund .
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2 months ago (edited) • Michael Sugrue
Hello, Ave Maria University has a donation fund in memory of Dr. Sugrue which will go toward the history department. You can find it here: https://www.avemaria.edu/michael-sugrue-legacy-fund .
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2 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Hello all, Darren Staloff has informed me that there is a mass happening in honor of Dr. Sugrue in Tuscon, Arizona next Sunday, February 18th. It will be at St. Augustine Cathedral. Sadly I don't know what time, but if any of you are in Tuscon, you are welcome to go.
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3 months ago • Michael Sugrue
We regret to announce the death of Dr. Michael Sugrue (1957-2024). He will be missed.
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3 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Hello all, Unfortunately, all Zoom courses will be cancelled due to the professor’s declining health.
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5 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Regrettably, Professor Sugrue's class is cancelled for today. He is ill and his health is such that synchronous teaching is increasingly difficult. There are a few videos already recorded that have not been posted and they will be posted asap. The professor says he wants to lecture on Boethius because he finally understands.
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8 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Alongside the medical doctor's course, I am announcing two other courses that I will be teaching starting in September. They will occur one a month on a Sunday evening at 8pm EST (Dates TBA). These are the syllabi. 2) The Greeks and their Heroes: OPEN TO ALL The price of admission is to tell us how you moved from the easiest labor (which is a tie between improving other peoples’ morals and spending other peoples’ money) to the heavier but more wholesome task of improving your own morals and then putting your money where your mouth is. I’d like to give encouragement to those who give more than they take, those people who set a good example by choosing to step up, grow up and stop holding everything and everyone but themselves responsible for the state of the world. The lectures are then as free as you are. You may find our contact info in the "About" section. September “Introductions” (preferably in Bloom’s translations) Iliad Book 1, 9-10 https://amzn.to/3DFKeDB Odyssey Book 9, 11, 22 https://amzn.to/3qfxAbq Plato, The Seventh Letter https://amzn.to/3YiyCAb The Republic Outline https://amzn.to/3KqtTXg October Republic, (Only the Bloom translation) Book 1 Presocratics https://amzn.to/3rUolOy November Republic Book 2 Aeschylus, the Orestia https://amzn.to/3qfR4g3 December Republic Book 3 Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections (Landmark) https://amzn.to/3DF57Pz January Republic Book 4 Sophocles, Antigone https://amzn.to/3qmLpVB February Republic Book 5 Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections https://amzn.to/3DF57Pz March Republic Book 6 Aristophanes, The Clouds, The Frogs, Lysistrata https://amzn.to/3KssCPn April Republic Book 7 Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections https://amzn.to/3DF57Pz May Republic Book 8 Euripides, Bacchae, Trojan Women, Medea https://amzn.to/3QpnoYA June Republic Book 9 Plato, Apology, Crito Phaedo https://amzn.to/3YomHAJ July Republic Book 10 Plato, Symposium https://amzn.to/3OKwvlB August Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics https://amzn.to/45gc4lL 3) Topics in World History: FOR PATREON SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: September The State of the Art - McNeill October DNA, Neurohistory and Historical Semiotics Onians - McGilchrist November Gobekli Tepe and Homo Religiosus - Cauvin December Ancient Greek and Chinese Physics - Lloyd January Ancient Greek and Chinese Technology February Cultural Syncretism and Cultural Agility: Great Mariners and Early Adopters Sea Peoples, Phoenicians, Indonesians to Madagascar, Vikings, Polynesians, Europeans plus Yamnaya, Arabs, Comanche, Ethiopians, Japanese March Medieval Convergence of Old World Scientific Knowledge: India, Persia, Islam, Europe, Africa April May Science June July From Military Industrial Complex to Technofascism August The Great Task of our Species = Two Small Crescents
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8 months ago (edited) • Michael Sugrue
Thank you to Ahmed Abozaid for subtitling the Marcus Aurelius lecture into Arabic. This labour of love is greatly appreciated, and if any one else is capable of translating the lectures into other languages via a .SRT file, we welcome you to email us!
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8 months ago (edited) • Michael Sugrue
Medical Doctor’s Course (see previous post) September Nature 1.0 to Nature 2.0. From Who? to What? I will send you the short readings not in the Presocratics Theages killed by statue Exodus 28:28 -9 Iliad Book 1, Herodotus Xerxes beating Hellespont The Presocratics (selections) October Vendetta and the Law, imposing order on the chaos Aeschylus, Orestia https://amzn.to/3OPe4My November Rational Animals. Potentially, intermittently, selectively, tentatively, uncertainly, possibly so. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War (Intro, Corcyra, Plague, Melians) https://amzn.to/3s61qje Euripides, Bacchae https://amzn.to/3OPTiMB December Art is Long, Life is Short. A Sirius problem Hippocratic Writings, Section One, “Medicine” https://amzn.to/47oAiMD January Psychology and Ethics, Organized Life and Organized Psyche Galen, Avoiding Distress https://amzn.to/3DSIt6a February Soul Journey, A Template for the psyche Dante, Divine Comedy (selections) https://amzn.to/4514HyN March The Turn Inward Montaigne, selected Essays https://amzn.to/3DOXOEK April Make Believe Diseases and Make Believe Cures Moliere, Imaginary Invalid https://amzn.to/3YxdBS8 May A New Story is a New World Darwin, Origin of Species https://amzn.to/3QBvXQk June Bureaucracy and Its Discontents Plunkitt of Tammany Hall https://amzn.to/45k47vW July Inverted Epics, Inverted Heroes Che, Memoirs of the Cuban Revolutionary War https://amzn.to/3QApvZJ Roosevelt, Autobiography (selections) https://amzn.to/3KCLT0O August Convergence McNeill, Plagues and Peoples https://amzn.to/445w89m
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8 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Medical Doctors Course Now that Covid has perhaps subsided, I think we all owe a particular debt to doctors. There is an old Irish saying, “You take, you owe”. Ordinary nonmedical people like me have taken a lot from the medical profession, so I am offering a yearlong course of a dozen interesting books that I think doctors would like. It is my way of saying thank you. We would meet for a Zoom lecture and a Zoom discussion on the first Sunday of each month, starting September, 2023. I appreciate that you are all very busy, so I hope that roughly a book per month is a reasonable choice (spaced out over a year). This may provide you with some well earned downtime so the reading and discussion hopefully will be more stimulating than strenuous. Here's the catch: everybody must pay tuition, but not to me. Like Old Mayor Daley, I work for favors, not cash. I try to pay off my debts to Asclepius using the coin of my realm: reading books and messing with people’s minds. You are to pay in the coin of your realm. Here is the physician’s price of admission to first class: you are to rectify some injustice being done to some sick person and family. I have had cancer for the past twelve years and I have seen a fair amount of the health care system, not just people who are sick but families driven to desperation by thievish insurance companies and mindless bureaucracies. It does not matter where you come from or where you work or what your medical specialty is or what political regime you live under, problems exist everywhere, taking different forms under different circumstances. Fix something. Your task is to step up, kick your ass into gear and fix something that you know should have been fixed long ago. Throw away some bill that an indigent family cannot pay anyway. Intervene on behalf of some veteran or child or overstressed single parent or someone on the brink of dementia. Vulnerable people sometimes get hurt in their search for health and doctors are quite justifiably taken seriously in medical matters, so pick your shots.
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10 months ago • Michael Sugrue
Hello everyone, The official TikTok account is now up and running. Shorts from this account will be transferred, along with additional short videos coming soon. You can find it at www.tiktok.com/@officialmichaelsugrue
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