Comte and the Origins of Sociology

I am now going back through all of Professor Sugrue lectures again. I hope no one stops listening to the genius of his scholarship. 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

Thank you for the uploads Dr Sugrge. You are by far the most gifted teacher/speaker I have, and may ever have the pleasure to listen to. Amazing.

Comte's name came up in Sociology 101 over half a century ago at junior college. I don't have a single book by him. At university, his name continued to come up, as part of the problem. He was never for me a real person of flesh and blood, until this lecture. Alas, I recognize a lot of myself in him, except for the obvious differences, including very limited mathematics. Now back to the lecture...

45:11 "If you scratch the first layer of varnish off a pragmatist what you'll find is a positivist with a broken heart" 😂 so hilarious, so tru

Stunning. Your ability to just translate it all and with no stuttering, stammering or pauses is incredibly rare. 💝

Commenting here to say thanks to Dr. Sugrue for this and the many other lectures. I wish I’d learn all this in my teens and twenties but I’m grateful I can get into it now. This is what a great and soul-shaping education really should look like!

What marvelous delivery and knowledge. Finding a lecturer who can teach philosophy with clarity and without deviation is so rare. I look forward to your other talks

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Thank you for this tremendous amount of work. The amount of processing power people have spent trying to reach the summit of mind is really inspiring.

in my notepad of things to do, literally an hour ago, I wrote "who is Comte?" --- Ask and you shall receive, right?

Gosh, I love Dr. Sugrue's one-liner jokes. If you catch them, they are actually hilarious. I love this man and his extensive knowledge!

Thank you for another great video Dr Sugrue

Between you Professor Sugrue and a few other brilliant teachers, I am bridging both my philosophy and my framework for writing to recipients who share specific core values/beliefs... Amazing, nobody in my current life finds any of this interesting, I cannot help to feel I am privileged for getting these ivy league college philosophy lessons!!!

listening to his lecture is a pure pleasure

thank you Dr. Michael Sugrue

"Nearer My Physics To Thee" -- laughing my head off, thanks Dr. Sugrue!

Another marvelous lecture, thank you doctore!

This is an amazing speaker as well as an amazing thinker

46:03 “I think all technocratic tendencies in modern politics owe something to Comte. In other words he was right in saying that to a great extent political decisions are at least partially technical. If you think about something like the Federal Reserve board—we have a special group of economists there that decide things like how much money gets printed or what the interest rates are because of the fact that you and I have no idea what to do with that. I don’t understand the equations, neither do you, there’s no point in having me vote on these things because I don’t understand them and neither do you—you can only leave it to the technicians and hope they do a good job. Because of the proliferation of knowledge in the modern world it’s not possible for any of us to know all the things we’d have to know to make an informed decision. The consequence of that is that positivism in the form of technocracy is at least a live option in the 20th century—the problem is how they will find a normative basis for that.”

These videos have been great for my soul