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Hello everyone,
A new article on Dr. Sugrue is published in the New York Times.
If you're interested, you can find it here www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/education/michael-sugruâŚ
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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: www.avemaria.edu/michael-sugrue-legacy-fund.
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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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We regret to announce the death of Dr. Michael Sugrue (1957-2024).
He will be missed.
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Hello all,
Unfortunately, all Zoom courses will be cancelled due to the professorâs declining health.
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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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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 peoplesâ morals and spending other peoplesâ money) to the heavier but more wholesome task of improving your own morals and then putting your money where your mouth is. Iâd 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 âIntroductionsâ (preferably in Bloomâs translations)
Iliad Book 1, 9-10 amzn.to/3DFKeDB
Odyssey Book 9, 11, 22 amzn.to/3qfxAbq
Plato, The Seventh Letter amzn.to/3YiyCAb
The Republic Outline amzn.to/3KqtTXg
October Republic, (Only the Bloom translation) Book 1
Presocratics amzn.to/3rUolOy
November Republic Book 2
Aeschylus, the Orestia amzn.to/3qfR4g3
December Republic Book 3
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections (Landmark) amzn.to/3DF57Pz
January Republic Book 4
Sophocles, Antigone amzn.to/3qmLpVB
February Republic Book 5
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections amzn.to/3DF57Pz
March Republic Book 6
Aristophanes, The Clouds, The Frogs, Lysistrata amzn.to/3KssCPn
April Republic Book 7
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War selections amzn.to/3DF57Pz
May Republic Book 8
Euripides, Bacchae, Trojan Women, Medea amzn.to/3QpnoYA
June Republic Book 9
Plato, Apology, Crito Phaedo amzn.to/3YomHAJ
July Republic Book 10
Plato, Symposium amzn.to/3OKwvlB
August
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 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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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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Medical Doctorâs 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 amzn.to/3OPe4My
November Rational Animals. Potentially, intermittently, selectively, tentatively, uncertainly, possibly so.
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War (Intro, Corcyra, Plague, Melians) amzn.to/3s61qje
Euripides, Bacchae amzn.to/3OPTiMB
December Art is Long, Life is Short. A Sirius problem
Hippocratic Writings, Section One, âMedicineâ amzn.to/47oAiMD
January Psychology and Ethics, Organized Life and Organized Psyche
Galen, Avoiding Distress amzn.to/3DSIt6a
February Soul Journey, A Template for the psyche
Dante, Divine Comedy (selections) amzn.to/4514HyN
March The Turn Inward
Montaigne, selected Essays amzn.to/3DOXOEK
April Make Believe Diseases and Make Believe Cures
Moliere, Imaginary Invalid amzn.to/3YxdBS8
May A New Story is a New World
Darwin, Origin of Species amzn.to/3QBvXQk
June Bureaucracy and Its Discontents
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall amzn.to/45k47vW
July Inverted Epics, Inverted Heroes
Che, Memoirs of the Cuban Revolutionary War amzn.to/3QApvZJ
Roosevelt, Autobiography (selections) amzn.to/3KCLT0O
August Convergence
McNeill, Plagues and Peoples amzn.to/445w89m
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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, âYou take, you oweâ. 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 peopleâs minds. You are to pay in the coin of your realm. Here is the physicianâs 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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Official Youtube channel for Dr. Michael Sugrue