You helped get me through some tough night shifts when I just needed something good and informative to listen to while working. This isn’t even 1% of the thanks you deserve.
Man it's so badass and wholesome how your daughter does this with you. I'm glad she had the idea of publishing your lectures and you went along with it. The outcome has been a fruitful one 😊
Reminds me of the very first Q&A livestream Jordan Peterson did on UA-cam back in the day. He did have a problem so at one time his son came rushing into the room to fix it. It's always so sweet when kids help their parents - even if they're geniuses.
Crime and Punishment is my favorite book, and hearing someone with the intellect of Professor Sugrue break this down is incredibly helpful. I am a butcher by trade, 40 years old now, never went to university, and I find these lectures to be extremely accessible and incredibly thought provoking. Thank you for these videos.
"What shall he profit, if his injustice be undetected and unpunished? He who is undetected only gets worse, whereas he who is detected and punished has the brutal part of his nature silenced and humanized; the gentler element in him is liberated, and his whole soul is perfected and ennobled by the acquirement of justice and temperance and wisdom, more than the body ever is by receiving gifts of beauty, strength and health, in proportion as the soul is more honourable than the body " - from The Republic by the one and only. Dostoevsky took this lesson and turned it into a best seller. There could have not been any other ending to Crime and Punishment
I was embarrassed by some of the things he wrote, as if he knew I would read his work in the future. I was a little offended by his audacity to write such personal things about me. It hurt and helped.
Yeah, we're all inflated in that way, it's our Fisher King wound - Where we live for the I and ego instead for you, us and them; that is living for a higher value than us, family, love, god, you name it. But there's a coffin for that internal change.
@@gabrielorville5334What you wrote nailed it! I've formally studied the Bible and been a vocational ministry for 30 years. With all my experience and knowledge I still struggle with treating others like I want to be treated.
@@TheSpoovy yes he reminds us of evils we've hidden from ourselves in the hopes we use it to love people As a young monk Martin Luther's priest told him to stop coming to confession so much with so many sins. Later he discovered grace in the Bible and the rest is history.
Thank you so much. I've had severe mental health problems and even though I've binged your lectures in the past, so much information has escaped my mind. Hearing your modern thoughts on these authors and philosophers is an incredible thing to enjoy and refresh myself with. thank you.
Dostoyevsky taught me as a teen that revolution is exhausting, I really enjoyed this presentation. He is definitely my favorite author of fiction,his works are superb.
Is it fiction or reality suppressed by the will to civilization. I grew in the woods of Africa, not much education at least not enough to give me the world view at large so Doystoyevski's world that formulated his perception of his world would have been alien to me yet our common denominator, humanity made me understand him and see the dark humour, the compassion, the struggles of being etcetra in his work.
I read Edgar Allen Poes The Tell Tale Heart right around the same time that I read Crime and Punishment just coincidentally and the scene where Svidragilov was sitting in Raskolnikov's room in the dark was so reminiscent of the scene where the crazy man from Poes story was opening the door to the guys room and just standing there in complete silence that I wondered if Dostoevsky was inspired by it so I did a little research and it turns out that Dostoevsky wrote the forward to the very first russian translation of Poe's stories.
Another great one I am listening to again, Dr. Sugre. I have been learning to write better on these tiny cellphones letters, which I don't particularly care for, since I am tech savey. I do love your videos and now the ones with Professor Staloff. Dostoevsky's novels I love and most Russian writers. Dysfunctional family, yes. Crime and Punishment Raskolonikov hits us right between the eyes. What characters so intriguing. Sonya, Porfiry, Svidrigailov, God, who would not want be atheist? Lol One begins to see hell on earth. Genius, Dostoevsky. Bravo. Soul transformation indeed.
I love how the facial features have changed, the voice has changed the setting has changed, but the passion is still there, burning like hell, thank you for sharing professor Sugrue.
This content may be some of the most educational and helpful available. Thank you so much for making these videos and making them public. I love hearing your insights.
Fantastic lecture! It’s great to see you making these videos. I watch your old lecture on Marcus Aurelius multiple times a year, and have been doing that for multiple years now. It brings me solace. I was ecstatic to discover your channel here on UA-cam. Priceless educational content. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you Dr. Sugrue and Genevieve (assuming that’s who’s helping the old man figure out the internet). Hope you have a wonderful holidays, you both have provided many gifts to the world through these videos!
This is my very first time listening to one of your lectures. I loved it. I just recorded my second BookTube video on Crime & Punishment. I am so sorry to learn of Dr. Sugrue's passing. I understand his daughter puts these videos up. Thank you and God bless.
Slowly working my way through Michael’s lectures and these talks and look forward to them every day. Apart from his astonishing erudition and understanding, his delivery and turn of phrase are often very, very, funny. Thank you🙏
Primarily it is Dostoyevsky criticism of Emerging Nihilism in Russia. Nietzsche who was heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky..said it's not just russia but also here In Germany...and as a matter of fact the entire European culture is heading into nihilistic times. It's not just a Russian German or European problem it's a global phenomenon nowadays
Joseph Frank states early in volume one of his biography of Dostoevsky that "as a child, he never felt any separation between the sacred and the profane, between the ordinary and the miraculous..." Something like this apparently also characterized the youthful impressions of life of the young Heidegger. Dr. Sugrue's ability, in thirty-three minutes, to give us the very essence of this great world masterpiece is itself geniius.
Utterly brilliant video! I’m retraining as a psychotherapist and am watching all your wonderful videos, since they provide me with such depth of knowledge on aspects of philosophy and psychology that I am lacking. There’s a lot of content nowadays but there are only a few channels that really explain and distill the core concepts as well as yours Sir! Awesome stuff!!
There is a reason religion has been so prevalent. People need a mechanism to aspire for an unreachable perfection, and a way to combat our own destructive tendencies. These were some wonderful insights. Please keep uploading
I literally just finished this book today and was looking for a video essay on it - and by sheer coincidence my favourite lecturer has posted a video on it! Thank you
Your interpretation skills are amazing. I' m a lawyer, and i read this book after read some Nietzsche books. But i haven't read the last 4 pages: thas was sad. What a fantastic and tragic book.
Excellent analysis and summary of what is undeniably one of the great masterpieces of classic literature. Dostoyevsky was a genius and my favorite writer. God bless!
Thank you so much professor. I can't say how much your old videos and now your new ones mean to this guy right here. Sending gratitude from Asbury Park, NJ.
Thanks for uploading this work. In my humble opinion, I think that universities will become obsolete in favor of educators gathering a following of students. As someone who never had the opportunity to pursue a higher education, im eternally greatfull for the work you put out. It truly is making a difference in my life.
informative, profound lecture. We Americans are so awash in technology that some of us reading the novel for the first time might wonder why the police simply did not fingerprint the crime scene and go from there. However, fingerprinting in Europe did not really take hold of police departments until the very late 1800's. C&P was written in 1866. Mark Twain's novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is one of the first, if not the first, novel to demonstrate fingerprinting used as a forensic technique, and that novel dates from 1894. The first known murder case to be solved using fingerprint analysis (dactyloscopy) was in 1892 in Argentina. @22:54 Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates said that during the first O.J. Simpson trial about a dozen people a week "turned themselves in" at various police stations as having been the double-murderer. Chief Gates said that there was one man in particular who "turned himself in" every week.
Love this and love the timing! I am on my 2nd read through (first being sometime pre-covid, b.s). I just want to comment on the "old women" for those who haven't read this prize of literature. The "older sister" is in her early 40s and the younger in her late 20s 🙄. I think Raskolnikov's attitude about the older lady's age is worth considering in light of his essay "On Crime." So says this 56 y.o. lady 😝 keep up the great work, Michael!
Thank you Michael, I am very happy to have discovered your channel, I am really enjoying your talks and the depth of your understanding. Great work. Blessings to you.
There's a very great Soviet film, in black and white, on Crime and Punishment. It takes out some of the Christian elements, but other than that, it's a very faithful adaption- it captures its essence very well.
Ive been going through it slowly, after I finished part one I just had to sit with it for a couple weeks, never has fictional words made me feel so anxious and repulsed, it genuinely makes you feel like an accessory to murder, while also making you root for Raskolnikov. Definitely one of the greatest writers.
I'm about 80% of the way through the novel of Crime and Punishment when I happened to stumble upon this lecture. What a goldmine! I would normally be upset that the endo of the novel I'm reading was prematurely opened up to me, yet because of the way in which you discussed the various ideas and topics and especially the ending, I am excited and intrigued to go back and read the entire novel again! LOL well done sir, your passion shines through your work.
I just finished it. What a masterpiece. I'm having a hard time deciding which is better Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov. I believe the latter means more to me, simply because I can identify with more of the characters. I can see a little bit of Ivan in myself, as well as Dimitri, and I definitely can identify with Alosha. But both are now two of my favorite novel's.
@@Godsglory777 yeah they will stick to you for the rest of your life, listening to this lecture again, years after reading it, i noticed how much i really internalized this story, along with brothers karamozov. well good luck, its a dark world out there 😶🌫
@@jhonviel7381 they certainly do. And it sure is dark out there but there is a Light that has shined into this darkness and the darkness could and will not overcome it (John 1:4-5). Even dostoyevsky believed in this light. So much so that He ended both of His masterpiece novels with this truth, in Alosha and His encouraging the young man to continue in goodness and more specifically in the conversion of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Whatever your faith my friend I pray for your peace.
Dear Mike, your on-line classes are indispensibe for those in a constant search for a "red pill"... Three cheers from Istanbul, Turkey. Btw, it is my humble opinion that "Notes from Underground" would have also made a worthy subject for a discourse... Best, fm
One of Jimmy Stewart’s lesser known films, Rope(1948), is loosely based on Crime and Punishment, dealing with its major theme, and it’s a pretty good film, I have to say.
I discovered your old video lectures during the beginnings of CoVID and were very stimulating. So glad to see you here on UA-cam and love seeing the joy in your eyes when you discuss this novel and the philosophical content in it. Thank you.
I always thought your dad was holdiing back on Teaching Company where I first listened to his lectures decades ago. In these lectures he is not. HE is there in his talks. I applaud him though he has died. I applaud you, his daughter, for carrying it forward. I hope you have found a way to carry what you have learned from you dad forward. I am in a similar situation with my work and daughter. I am hoping she finds a way to integrate your life and his influence. Best of luck.
9:00 when talking about how you can justify 2 murders based off 1, im curious how that would apply to a Kyle Rittenhouse type of case where a person shoots someone in what they think is self defense, but a crowd interprets you to be a murderer, and they try to restrain you, is the shooter acting in the right to continue to shoot the oncoming crowd ? Are both parties justified ? How should a court of law look at this ?
Please continue making these! Your descriptions and analysis are better than any of the extracurricular classes I took in undergrad! : ) Thank you for you time.
That was just my little jest on the English Grammar. Back to my comment: Dostoevsky is a moral soul on the par with Dickens in England. Don't call him nihilist or existentialist. He deeply believes in God and aches to live in the world where the God exists. A Victorian Russian! Thank you for helping me to make this connection.
Crime and punishment I first read at 14 years of age to then again recently where it was just even more incredible than the first time; I have now read every book by Dostoyevsky. It has been an incredible experience, but I like Tolstoy more perhaps. It is hard to put a measure on what the best author is when they all have these unique styles.
Maybe it's just the translation I read, but I interpreted the ending as such: Sonya visits him regularly, which torments him because he's ashamed and guilty that she followed him to Siberia, even though he asked her to when he confessed to her about the murders. In turn, he treats her with disgusting ingratitude, as if to push her away, by staying silent during her visits, rejecting her affection, and even avoiding looking her in the eye and her attempts to hold his hand at times. At some point she gets sick for a few days and stops visiting. He is suddenly filled with fear and agony that either something terrible has happened to her or that she no longer wants to see him, and he realizes that she's all he had left and that his miserable life in prison would be that much more devoid of meaning were it not for Sonya. When she resumes visiting him, he is surprised to see her again and she explains that she had been sick, but was feeling well enough to come visit him again, which he notes that she has done so despite looking even more sickly, thin, and pale than usual, on a cold Siberian morning at that. He finally realizes how intense, infinite, and unconditional her love and devotion for him must be, that despite his awful treatment of her and the misery that she endures just to be with him, she would follow him til the end. That, and after momentarily facing the anguish of thinking he had lost her, he comes to the conclusion that just as it is apparent that she loves him, he must truly love her, and that alone is enough to continue living for despite the failure of his philosophy and the trauma of having murdered, and their newfound love will ease the suffering of the coming years and fuel their hopes and dreams of a happy future together when his sentence is complete. With her love, Sonya has restored life to him, as Jesus to Lazarus. I'm not sure if it's my translation that I read changing things up, but the religious connection isn't really made, but it is implied that Raskolnikov has Sonya's Bible at the end and feels obligated to read it and adopt her convictions, as he feels it is necessary to share them with her if he is to love her.
You helped get me through some tough night shifts when I just needed something good and informative to listen to while working. This isn’t even 1% of the thanks you deserve.
Man it's so badass and wholesome how your daughter does this with you. I'm glad she had the idea of publishing your lectures and you went along with it. The outcome has been a fruitful one 😊
I didn't know it was his daughter!
Reminds me of the very first Q&A livestream Jordan Peterson did on UA-cam back in the day. He did have a problem so at one time his son came rushing into the room to fix it. It's always so sweet when kids help their parents - even if they're geniuses.
@@StockpileThomas1 very strong jordan peterson to sugrue pipe
"geniuses" ?????? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😮@StockpileThomas1
@DianaStevens42 you're a tool
RIP Sugrue! You have left a library of videos I may always return to.
He died? That’s damn sad man
I am not crying you are...
Crime and Punishment is my favorite book, and hearing someone with the intellect of Professor Sugrue break this down is incredibly helpful.
I am a butcher by trade, 40 years old now, never went to university, and I find these lectures to be extremely accessible and incredibly thought provoking. Thank you for these videos.
"What shall he profit, if his injustice be undetected and unpunished?
He who is undetected only gets worse, whereas he who is detected
and punished has the brutal part of his nature silenced and
humanized; the gentler element in him is liberated, and his whole
soul is perfected and ennobled by the acquirement of justice and
temperance and wisdom, more than the body ever is by receiving
gifts of beauty, strength and health, in proportion as the soul is
more honourable than the body " - from The Republic by the one and only. Dostoevsky took this lesson and turned it into a best seller. There could have not been any other ending to Crime and Punishment
Thanks! A small contribution of gratitude and also I hope an inspiration to others to not take you for granted and help support your work.
The 21’st century’s greatest teacher.
No shade at the good doctor, but competition isn't exactly stiff these days.
@@pearz420haha facts, but one gotta Love Michael
Could you elaborate a bit? @@pearz420
Dostoyevsky is my favorite writer because he understood behavioral psychology before it was an applied science.
Great comment.
Never stop lecturing Sugrue, I will watch everything you upload!
I was embarrassed by some of the things he wrote, as if he knew I would read his work in the future. I was a little offended by his audacity to write such personal things about me. It hurt and helped.
Yeah, we're all inflated in that way, it's our Fisher King wound - Where we live for the I and ego instead for you, us and them; that is living for a higher value than us, family, love, god, you name it. But there's a coffin for that internal change.
I know what you mean. He described aspects of my own personality that I thought I'd hidden, even from myself. Now I feel like everyone can see them!
@@gabrielorville5334What you wrote nailed it! I've formally studied the Bible and been a vocational ministry for 30 years. With all my experience and knowledge I still struggle with treating others like I want to be treated.
@@TheSpoovy yes he reminds us of evils we've hidden from ourselves in the hopes we use it to love people
As a young monk Martin Luther's priest told him to stop coming to confession so much with so many sins. Later he discovered grace in the Bible and the rest is history.
LOL
But don't cry, please.
Thinking of Professor Sugrue today. RIP
Thank you so much. I've had severe mental health problems and even though I've binged your lectures in the past, so much information has escaped my mind. Hearing your modern thoughts on these authors and philosophers is an incredible thing to enjoy and refresh myself with. thank you.
Like sand in a sieve
@@Laocoon283 it's infuriating. To possess all the knowledge one comes across would be wonderful
My Dude, The Doc! I could be having the worst day ever, and just seeing this guy's face over a new video makes my entire WEEK.
Keep em Comin!
Dostoyevsky taught me as a teen that revolution is exhausting, I really enjoyed this presentation. He is definitely my favorite author of fiction,his works are superb.
Is it fiction or reality suppressed by the will to civilization. I grew in the woods of Africa, not much education at least not enough to give me the world view at large so Doystoyevski's world that formulated his perception of his world would have been alien to me yet our common denominator, humanity made me understand him and see the dark humour, the compassion, the struggles of being etcetra in his work.
Merry Christmas, Professor and Genevieve. I've learned volumes from this channel.
I read Edgar Allen Poes The Tell Tale Heart right around the same time that I read Crime and Punishment just coincidentally and the scene where Svidragilov was sitting in Raskolnikov's room in the dark was so reminiscent of the scene where the crazy man from Poes story was opening the door to the guys room and just standing there in complete silence that I wondered if Dostoevsky was inspired by it so I did a little research and it turns out that Dostoevsky wrote the forward to the very first russian translation of Poe's stories.
Ah that's awesome, TIL
Great share.
Thanks for sharing! Living in Baltimore atm and I hardly go a day without seeing some reference to E.A.P.
I actually thought about Edgar Allen Poe
Another great one I am listening to again, Dr. Sugre. I have been learning to write better on these tiny cellphones letters, which I don't particularly care for, since I am tech savey. I do love your videos and now the ones with Professor Staloff.
Dostoevsky's novels I love and most Russian writers.
Dysfunctional family, yes.
Crime and Punishment
Raskolonikov hits us right between the eyes. What characters so intriguing. Sonya, Porfiry, Svidrigailov,
God, who would not want be atheist? Lol One begins to see hell on earth.
Genius, Dostoevsky. Bravo.
Soul transformation indeed.
I wish every philosophy class included Dostoevsky in their curriculum
I love how the facial features have changed, the voice has changed the setting has changed, but the passion is still there, burning like hell, thank you for sharing professor Sugrue.
Philosophy is beautiful and you are a wonderful teacher. Thank you, professor Sugrue and Genevieve!
This content may be some of the most educational and helpful available. Thank you so much for making these videos and making them public. I love hearing your insights.
Fantastic lecture! It’s great to see you making these videos. I watch your old lecture on Marcus Aurelius multiple times a year, and have been doing that for multiple years now. It brings me solace. I was ecstatic to discover your channel here on UA-cam. Priceless educational content. Thank you for all you do.
All men die, but not all men die whining. Words to live by.
@@r.k.5031 Absolutely! Good reference!
Very interesting, insightful and thorough analysis of the story! Thank you for your very well structured video!
Thank you Dr. Sugrue and Genevieve (assuming that’s who’s helping the old man figure out the internet). Hope you have a wonderful holidays, you both have provided many gifts to the world through these videos!
this dude is amazing. grateful for people like you
Fantastic commentary which enhanced my understanding after reading the work. Brilliant analysis, thank you Michael Sugrue and Bravo!
I've been waiting for some more Dostoyevsky content, thanks professor!
Join the club
Christmas came early this year! Much love to you Dr Sugrue!
Thank you so much for posting these. Both the old lessons and the new have helped me so much in learning a diverse array of philosophic traditions
This is my very first time listening to one of your lectures. I loved it. I just recorded my second BookTube video on Crime & Punishment. I am so sorry to learn of Dr. Sugrue's passing. I understand his daughter puts these videos up. Thank you and God bless.
Slowly working my way through Michael’s lectures and these talks and look forward to them every day. Apart from his astonishing erudition and understanding, his delivery and turn of phrase are often very, very, funny. Thank you🙏
thank you again for all of your hard work, insight, and speculation, Professor.
I’ve read this book over 5 times. This is the best analysis I’ve ever seen. Genius level insight.
Primarily it is Dostoyevsky criticism of Emerging Nihilism in Russia.
Nietzsche who was heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky..said it's not just russia but also here In Germany...and as a matter of fact the entire European culture is heading into nihilistic times.
It's not just a Russian German or European problem it's a global phenomenon nowadays
Thanks to Michel Sugrue's daughter for these great, masterpiece lectures vdieos. These are benevolent, amazing for me.
Joseph Frank states early in volume one of his biography of Dostoevsky that "as a child, he never felt any separation between the sacred and the profane, between the ordinary and the miraculous..." Something like this apparently also characterized the youthful impressions of life of the young Heidegger. Dr. Sugrue's ability, in thirty-three minutes, to give us the very essence of this great world masterpiece is itself geniius.
thank you sir for what you are doing.
Utterly brilliant video! I’m retraining as a psychotherapist and am watching all your wonderful videos, since they provide me with such depth of knowledge on aspects of philosophy and psychology that I am lacking. There’s a lot of content nowadays but there are only a few channels that really explain and distill the core concepts as well as yours Sir! Awesome stuff!!
There are geniuses then there is
Dr Sugrue
I’ve learned so much from his videos
Thanks!
Thank you, Dr. Sugrue, for these invaluable lectures.
I love you Mr. Sugrue. I wish I were more like you.
Michael is the greatest philosophical teacher I have ever head. RIP mate.
Thanks!
Thanks
There is a reason religion has been so prevalent. People need a mechanism to aspire for an unreachable perfection, and a way to combat our own destructive tendencies. These were some wonderful insights. Please keep uploading
Best discussion I've heard about this difficult book. Thank you.
I literally just finished this book today and was looking for a video essay on it - and by sheer coincidence my favourite lecturer has posted a video on it! Thank you
Thanks so much for continuing your lectures.
Your interpretation skills are amazing. I' m a lawyer, and i read this book after read some Nietzsche books. But i haven't read the last 4 pages: thas was sad. What a fantastic and tragic book.
My friend, the internet has those 4 pages. Read them as soon ask you can.
Excellent analysis and summary of what is undeniably one of the great masterpieces of classic literature. Dostoyevsky was a genius and my favorite writer. God bless!
I appreciate you two.
thank you for continuing to release these great lectures!
Thank you, Michael!
Thank you for the content now and throughout the years Professor!
Thank you so much professor. I can't say how much your old videos and now your new ones mean to this guy right here. Sending gratitude from Asbury Park, NJ.
This was an awesome lecture! Thank you for posting! I read this over 50 years ago and it has inspired me to reread!
Thanks for uploading this work. In my humble opinion, I think that universities will become obsolete in favor of educators gathering a following of students.
As someone who never had the opportunity to pursue a higher education, im eternally greatfull for the work you put out.
It truly is making a difference in my life.
“I don’t have much experience with axe murdering” 21:48
-Sugrue
He’s got some experience though 👀
@@tinononit8623 🪓
This is the first time that I watch your lecture and I can already tell I'm in the presence of a legend.
Lucky
Thank you professor sugrue i am from sudan and i am glad that i have access to your lectures.
Thank you. Wonderfully presented. You can find the audio version of the book on spotify
informative, profound lecture. We Americans are so awash in technology that some of us reading the novel for the first time might wonder why the police simply did not fingerprint the crime scene and go from there. However, fingerprinting in Europe did not really take hold of police departments until the very late 1800's. C&P was written in 1866. Mark Twain's novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is one of the first, if not the first, novel to demonstrate fingerprinting used as a forensic technique, and that novel dates from 1894. The first known murder case to be solved using fingerprint analysis (dactyloscopy) was in 1892 in Argentina. @22:54 Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates said that during the first O.J. Simpson trial about a dozen people a week "turned themselves in" at various police stations as having been the double-murderer. Chief Gates said that there was one man in particular who "turned himself in" every week.
That was a fantastic lecture, thank you.
I have so much to say that I may go off for a walk and gather my thoughts.
Mr. Sugrue thank you so much for your lectures etc. i enjoy every second. This is a gold mine ❤
Another fantastic lecture. Thank you, Dr. Sugrue!
I cant wait for the next one. its amazing to watch how time has settled your ideas. Thank you.
Thank you for all of your lectures. All amazing.
Love this and love the timing! I am on my 2nd read through (first being sometime pre-covid, b.s). I just want to comment on the "old women" for those who haven't read this prize of literature. The "older sister" is in her early 40s and the younger in her late 20s 🙄. I think Raskolnikov's attitude about the older lady's age is worth considering in light of his essay "On Crime." So says this 56 y.o. lady 😝
keep up the great work, Michael!
17:18 thank you professor for your time and illuminating comments.
You’re looking healthier with each passing video, Doc! I like that.
I have read the book but thoroughly enjoyed your story telling style. Wonderful.
This has been eye opening. My understandings of the reading was fine. But your’s was the finishing touch I needed. Insightful, thank you 🙏
Keep crushin', Mike.
Thanks.
Thank you Michael, I am very happy to have discovered your channel, I am really enjoying your talks and the depth of your understanding. Great work. Blessings to you.
This is an excellent overview of a big narrative. Not easy to pull off in 40 minutes, so thank you for doing this.
Thank you Mr Sugrue! I came across your videos a few years ago and have since found a new passion for philosophy.
Great analysis, just finished reading it and this cleared up so many things for me
There's a very great Soviet film, in black and white, on Crime and Punishment. It takes out some of the Christian elements, but other than that, it's a very faithful adaption- it captures its essence very well.
Ive been going through it slowly, after I finished part one I just had to sit with it for a couple weeks, never has fictional words made me feel so anxious and repulsed, it genuinely makes you feel like an accessory to murder, while also making you root for Raskolnikov. Definitely one of the greatest writers.
I'm about 80% of the way through the novel of Crime and Punishment when I happened to stumble upon this lecture. What a goldmine! I would normally be upset that the endo of the novel I'm reading was prematurely opened up to me, yet because of the way in which you discussed the various ideas and topics and especially the ending, I am excited and intrigued to go back and read the entire novel again! LOL well done sir, your passion shines through your work.
read the brothers karamazov next
I just finished it. What a masterpiece. I'm having a hard time deciding which is better Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov. I believe the latter means more to me, simply because I can identify with more of the characters. I can see a little bit of Ivan in myself, as well as Dimitri, and I definitely can identify with Alosha. But both are now two of my favorite novel's.
@@Godsglory777 yeah they will stick to you for the rest of your life, listening to this lecture again, years after reading it, i noticed how much i really internalized this story, along with brothers karamozov.
well good luck, its a dark world out there 😶🌫
@@jhonviel7381 they certainly do. And it sure is dark out there but there is a Light that has shined into this darkness and the darkness could and will not overcome it (John 1:4-5). Even dostoyevsky believed in this light. So much so that He ended both of His masterpiece novels with this truth, in Alosha and His encouraging the young man to continue in goodness and more specifically in the conversion of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Whatever your faith my friend I pray for your peace.
Dear Mike, your on-line classes are indispensibe for those in a constant search for a "red pill"... Three cheers from Istanbul, Turkey.
Btw, it is my humble opinion that "Notes from Underground" would have also made a worthy subject for a discourse...
Best, fm
Thanks for sharing another great video.
One of Jimmy Stewart’s lesser known films, Rope(1948), is loosely based on Crime and Punishment, dealing with its major theme, and it’s a pretty good film, I have to say.
I discovered your old video lectures during the beginnings of CoVID and were very stimulating. So glad to see you here on UA-cam and love seeing the joy in your eyes when you discuss this novel and the philosophical content in it. Thank you.
Great video! I'm gonna do a re read now!
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 16:24
I always thought your dad was holdiing back on Teaching Company where I first listened to his lectures decades ago. In these lectures he is not. HE is there in his talks. I applaud him though he has died. I applaud you, his daughter, for carrying it forward. I hope you have found a way to carry what you have learned from you dad forward. I am in a similar situation with my work and daughter. I am hoping she finds a way to integrate your life and his influence. Best of luck.
Fantastic both the lectures old and new!
9:00 when talking about how you can justify 2 murders based off 1, im curious how that would apply to a Kyle Rittenhouse type of case where a person shoots someone in what they think is self defense, but a crowd interprets you to be a murderer, and they try to restrain you, is the shooter acting in the right to continue to shoot the oncoming crowd ? Are both parties justified ? How should a court of law look at this ?
My sincere gratitude for the wonderful lecture.
Keep doing what you’re doing. Love your old stuff and love the new stuff even more. Best lectures around
Thank you for sharing your insight
Thank you for such insightful videos. Really appreciate it.
Please continue making these! Your descriptions and analysis are better than any of the extracurricular classes I took in undergrad! : ) Thank you for you time.
Good to see you back!
That was just my little jest on the English Grammar. Back to my comment: Dostoevsky is a moral soul on the par with Dickens in England. Don't call him nihilist or existentialist. He deeply believes in God and aches to live in the world where the God exists. A Victorian Russian! Thank you for helping me to make this connection.
Can you do more talks on literature please? This is better than any other book review page. Could listen to you all day.
Thank you !
Crime and punishment I first read at 14 years of age to then again recently where it was just even more incredible than the first time; I have now read every book by Dostoyevsky. It has been an incredible experience, but I like Tolstoy more perhaps. It is hard to put a measure on what the best author is when they all have these unique styles.
Maybe it's just the translation I read, but I interpreted the ending as such: Sonya visits him regularly, which torments him because he's ashamed and guilty that she followed him to Siberia, even though he asked her to when he confessed to her about the murders. In turn, he treats her with disgusting ingratitude, as if to push her away, by staying silent during her visits, rejecting her affection, and even avoiding looking her in the eye and her attempts to hold his hand at times. At some point she gets sick for a few days and stops visiting. He is suddenly filled with fear and agony that either something terrible has happened to her or that she no longer wants to see him, and he realizes that she's all he had left and that his miserable life in prison would be that much more devoid of meaning were it not for Sonya. When she resumes visiting him, he is surprised to see her again and she explains that she had been sick, but was feeling well enough to come visit him again, which he notes that she has done so despite looking even more sickly, thin, and pale than usual, on a cold Siberian morning at that. He finally realizes how intense, infinite, and unconditional her love and devotion for him must be, that despite his awful treatment of her and the misery that she endures just to be with him, she would follow him til the end. That, and after momentarily facing the anguish of thinking he had lost her, he comes to the conclusion that just as it is apparent that she loves him, he must truly love her, and that alone is enough to continue living for despite the failure of his philosophy and the trauma of having murdered, and their newfound love will ease the suffering of the coming years and fuel their hopes and dreams of a happy future together when his sentence is complete. With her love, Sonya has restored life to him, as Jesus to Lazarus. I'm not sure if it's my translation that I read changing things up, but the religious connection isn't really made, but it is implied that Raskolnikov has Sonya's Bible at the end and feels obligated to read it and adopt her convictions, as he feels it is necessary to share them with her if he is to love her.