“Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s travels is arguably the most savage thing ever written in the English language....”😂😂😂

As per usual, I kid myself that I'll take a sneak peek at the beginning and end up watching the whole thing. So good!

"Drown the world; I am not content with despising it!"

Unfathomably based.

Swift wasn't harsh - the future he saw is.

We seem to be beyond satire now. We live in Lilliput.

Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯
I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎

Whoever is uploading these, thank you!!

Well I guess I’ll be reading Gulliber’s Travels again.

These uploads make my day, thank you!

Always happy to see a new lecture!

Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him.

10/10 without music
20/10 with epic music

I like this Swift fellow. My kind of guy. My Boss once said that i don't approach issues as much as I punch them in the nose. There are pros and cons to having this type of personality. Confrontation is never a problem but it makes people uncomfortable. It tends to alienate if you don't learn when to "shut up" as the good Dr says.

That opening line, hahaha. I don't know what I expected - he's not wrong - but it had me rolling. Thank you.

Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well.
Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British  Satarist,  Dean  and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin.
I love Jonathan Swifts books.
The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder  and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy.

"The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!

Thank you, Prof Sugrue for this great lecture.

Thank you professor! 😊

I read Gulliver's Travels as a kid in the USSR. Naturally, I only had the vaguest feeling that some of the collisions and situations depicted were parodies of certain goings-on in European religion, science and politics of the time, but no more than that. It was just a hilarious romp with pretty clear moralistic underpinnings, couched (thankfully) in comedic and fantastical forms, rather than as a Sunday sermon.

Good old Jonathan would have either gone bananas in our world or created the Jon Swift Show and beaten George Carlin at ratings.

Never read the whole book but My whole life was a lie assuming Gulliver's travels a children's book!

The man was a genuis.