AUGUSTINE (354-430), CONFESSIONS ~400 “PORTRAIT OF THEOLOGIAN AS A YOUNG MAN” JOURNEY MOTIF EACH CHAPTER A PRAYER BOOK 1-10 AUGUSTINE PRODIGAL SON BOOKS 11-13 GENESIS MEMORY TIME CREATION FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIBLE AS TEMPLATE MODEL FOR ALL CHRISTIAN COMMITMENT BAD TO WORSE TO SEARCH FOR SOMETHING ELSE PEARS = EVE IN EDEN SIN TO SANCTITY AENEID AS TEMPLATE CARTHAGE -> ROME SEARCH FOR ETERNAL CITY PIETAS Δ TO MONOTHEISM GETS RID OF CONCUBINE, DIDO

ARISTOTLE, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS EUDAIMONIA THEORETICAL + PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE GOLDEN MEAN FRIENDSHIP PHRONESIS ?EGOISM? IDEAL OF KNOWLEDGE = NO ALTRUISM BIOLOGY NOT MATH ARISTOTLE AS ONE TRICK PONY: ANALYSIS (like biology) THE GOOD LIFE = RATIONAL VIRTUOUS ACTIVITY CONTEMPLATION OVER ACTION HIGHEST OF ALL VIRTUES = CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM 1 TELOS OF ETHICS = EUDAIMONIA FROM ARETE SELF SUFFICIENCY HUMAN GOOD 2 CHARACTER EXCELLENCE = MEANS, END IS EUDAIMONIA VIRTUE = MEAN BETWEEN 2 EXTREMES

God help me, some naif suggested that I should attach “trigger warnings” to my lectures. As my daughter says about me when I lose my temper, “Release the Kraken”. A fair number of SJWs need to be verbally eelslapped: See Eelslap.com So here it is: Pulling the Trigger Warnings for my lectures: This lecture is unabashedly replete with xphobic, stupid, stigmatizing, marginalizing, stress creating, upsetting, perverse, immoral, disgusting, mistaken, unacceptable, reactionary, offensive, degrading, traumatizing, revolutionary, inauthentic, hegemonic, dehumanizing, tone deaf, alienating, dogwhistling verbal violence inappropriately delivered by an unfashionably candid speaker who is considerably less impressed with you than you are with yourself.

THE STATE OF THE ART. The modern study of world history has gone through three stages. The first stage began during the era of WWI. Roughly a century ago scholars began to produce histories of world civilizations. These studies focused on the independent development of disparate culture/civilizations, searching for their unifying principles and life-cycles. The two most influential practitioners were Arnold Toynbee and Oswald Spengler. They drew a very broad readership because they combined their scholarship with a concern among the western readers for the future of their own culture/civilization, a future that many perceived to be in doubt.

BEST YOUTUBE CRITICS ALL AGREE: This Marcus Aurelius Lecture Is an Untimely Act of PURE HETERO-GENIUS “its 2019, i dont think you can say “hetero-genius” anymore” - Jesse Rantakangas “The whole video summed up. Fuck you !!” -G rod “Honestly, I’ve never heard a bigger pile of bullshit than this in my entire life” – GalaxyEyes “Pure moronic thinking”-Fernando Miramontes Forattini “Biased and full of shit towards the end” - b pokhrel

TEACHING A teacher must pursue a lifetime program of serious and systematic reading. The earlier in life you start and the more sedulously you pursue your program, the better. There is no elevator to the upper floors of literacy, you must climb the stairs. Before I entered college I read indiscriminately and omnivorously, happily thrashing about in any portion of a library, always with more exuberance than method. In college, I found out to my astonishment and horror and joy the amount of knowledge that genuinely well read people had mastered.

A Question from my Daughter > Hey Dad … I was thinking. You tell me a lot of things about life and I want to know: What’s your biggest goal for my life? This is an excellent question, Sweetie. The short answer is that I wish you to be happy. In one sense happiness is as unique as an individual snowflake, no two people’s happiness are alike. However, happiness in another sense shows certain patterns for all: the most important human concerns are work and love.

An unpublished book of Dr. Sugrue.

Final Exam Question Answer the following in essay form. Due in ONE WEEK. The controversial Repeat Felon Redistribution Act (RFRA) of 2005, popularly known as the “Four Strikes and You’re Spare Parts” law, introduced some minor modifications into traditional American conceptions of justice. Inmates serving life sentences have proven very difficult to coerce, and many have been found guilty of murder, mayhem, sexual assault and narcotics trafficking while in prison. This bill provides new criminal penalties for those felons currently incarcerated under the penal laws which provide mandatory life terms for criminals convicted of a third felony.

I have a pet parrot, an African Grey, and she is very smart. Experiments have been done on the problem solving abilities of these clever birds. They can do simple addition and subtraction problems in order to get a reward. I think this means my parrot, Polly, is rational. She responds well to rewards (a saltine cracker) and she is a quick learner when it comes to remembering what I tell her.