The Idea Store: Recent Episodes
Genevieve Sugrue
When I was 4 years old, my dad decided that it was time for my intro to philosophy. So he told me, "Did you know that I get all my ideas at the idea store?". This didn't sit well with me and I kept insisting "No you don't!". For the next two years, many car rides were spent talking about the idea store. It baffled my little mind but I kept trying to reason with him the best I could. At age 6 I found the solution. "You can't see and touch ideas. You can only buy things you can see and touch. Ideas are different". My dad was ecstatic. He had just taught his daughter the basics of metaphysics. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support
We had a chance to sit down again and talk about some of our favorite writers.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genevieve-sugrue/support
You can find The Meditations here https://amzn.to/3wAbIr6
If hell can be a state of mind, so can peace.
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You can find Horace's work here https://amzn.to/3QQs8U4 and Juvenal's work here https://amzn.to/3wgtPlM
Sometimes, when shit hits the fan, all you can do is laugh
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Here's everything as we know it. What now?
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You can find "Don Quixote" here
A not-so-gallant knight's adventures
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You can find "Measure For Measure" here
Shakespeare's most misunderstood (and in our opinion, most underrated) play
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You can find more of Montagine's work here
The essays of Michel de Montagine
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You can find more of Machiavelli's work here
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Second lecture on colonial America
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The first of two lectures on early American history
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You can find more of Eckhart's work here
Great theologians of the late middle ages
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You can find "The Misantrope" here
Moliere's The Misanthrope. Thank you to the listener who supplied us with the audio!
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You can find "The Purgatorio" here and "The Paradiso" here
We've climbed our way out of hell, but what's beyond?
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You can find "The Inferno" here
We're taking a trip through Hell lead by Virgil and Dr. Sugrue
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You can find The Qur'an here
All about the Islamic holy book
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You can find "Augustine's Confessions" here
A hugely important piece of early Christian literature that asks "is reason enough"?
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You can find "The Aeneid" here
The Roman epic
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You can find "On The Nature of Things" here
Things are as they seem, what more do you want?
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You can find "The Politics" here
The golden mean is needed under every regime
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You can find "The Nicomachean Ethics" here
Aristotle's deep dive into practical knowledge and how to use it
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You can find "The Republic" here
The city is like the man
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You can find "The Symposium" here
A toast to eros!
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You can find "Five Dialogues" here
The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo
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You can find "Four Plays" here
Let's talk Greek comedy and the roaringly funny, Aristophanes!
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You can find Euripides work here
Discussion on the ancient Tarantino himself: Euripides. His work includes The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and Medea.
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You can find the trilogy here
Let's talk about the author of the Oedipus trilogy, Greek tragedian Sophocles
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You can find "The Oresteia" here
Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and blood vendetta in the house of Atreus
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You can find "History of the Peloponnesian War" here
Recorded by a student in the 2018-2019 school year
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You can find Herodotus' histories here
Class recording of Dr. Sugrue teaching on ancient historian Herodotus
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You can find more on the presocratics here
First in a series of classes given between September 2018 to April 2019 by Dr. Michael Sugrue
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You can find more of Piaget's work here
Student recording (February 2020) from Dr. Sugrue's classroom
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You can find "Utopia" here
Let's talk about Utopia and the fascinating man who wrote it
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The first question got cut off but it was "How did your study of so many conflicting ideas affect your moral compass? Do you tend to selectively integrate aspects of philosophy in your daily life or find yourself more averted to filter ideas through any lens?"
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What is time? How do you know? How have archaic people thought about time?
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You can find "Blood Meridian" here
Free association on civilization and it’s frightening alternatives.
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You can find more of Weber's work here
Early 2020 class on turn-of-the-century German sociologist, Max Weber.
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You can find more of Emily Dickinson's work here
Today we're talking about Dickinson, Auden, Yeats, Eliot, and more!
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You can find "Brave New World" here
"Brave New World" is one of the most impactful novels of the 20th century. This is one of my favorite formal audios so far, I hope it is for you all as well.
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You can find "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" here
Dr. Sugrue's lecture on "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". We are Irish, so Joyce is both an excellent author and a source of pride.
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Let's talk about Nihilism, addiction, the French tradition, and much more. A bit of a different style today since this audio was recorded all in one take.
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You can find "The Brother's Karamazov" here
Recording taken by a student before Dr. Sugrue retired. All episodes titled "HUM 309" are from a class he taught. We hope you enjoy!
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You can find more of Foucault's work here
Post-modernism and the hyper-concentrated will to power. Ideas have consequences, but at least Foucault was consistent.
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You can find "The Genealogy of Morals" here
Let’s talk about the man, the myth, the legend (and the terror): Friedrich Nietzsche. Usually the podcast is recorded in our living room. Since I’m at university, this episode is the audio recording of a FaceTime call between Dr. Sugrue and I.
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Let’s talk about the necessity of religion!
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You can find "The Misanthrope" here
Comedy can be cognitive, and this play is a perfect example
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Platonic Forms vs Universal Grammar, Hobbes vs Locke, and playing chess against Grandmaster Larsen. Please excuse any squeaking you hear later in the episode. Our dog was outside and sad to be excluded.
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Advice on starting the intellectual life, thoughts on Nietzsche’s fascism, studying philosophy in university vs independently, and more.
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Dr. Sugrue answers seven selected questions from listener comments
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You can find "War and Peace" here
We should all see The Grand Canyon at least once.
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You can find "Ultilitarianism" here
Today we’re diving into 19th century British philosophy—“The greatest good for the greatest number”. It’s questionable at times, but it gets the job done
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You can find "The Brother's Karamazov" here
Ivan meets the devil, Dmitri’s falsely accused of murder, and we learn far more about the human psyche than we’d like to.
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Dr. Sugrue shares his ideas in a stream-of-consciousness fashion while our dachshund sits in his lap (No barking this time)
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You can find "The Brother's Karamazov" here
A clip that didn’t make the cut here was Dr. Sugrue saying “In my life, I was born Ivan. For some years, my wild years, I turned into Dmitri. And now, at long last, I’m doing a very bad job of Alyosha”. I disagree that he’s doing a bad job
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You can find "The Brother's Karamazov" here
Let’s have some fun with Russian literature and Plato
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You can find "Either/Or" here
Dr. Sugrue comments on faith and reason
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You can find Fear and Trembling here
Kierkegaard's message to us? Pick a side. (Once again please excuse our dog in the background)
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You can find the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals here
Dr. Sugrue and I sit down to talk Kant (ft. our dog)
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