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Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue's lecture on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the Stoic ideal, covering the text and its philosophy. It is one of his humanities lectures known for their clarity.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a classic, clear introduction to Aurelius, with some saying it helped through hard times.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Michael Sugrue
- Topic
- stoic philosophy
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Humanities: anything by Michael Sugrue [VIDEO] He also has a podcast “The Idea Store”: [LINK] He can speak off-the-cuff on any philosophical school of thought or historical period. The clarity of the lectures is amazing. What a stone-cold badass.
aamargulies on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?If anyone is interested in stoicism then this classic lecture by Dr Sugrue is [VIDEO] have watched this lecture multiple times (each time I was going through some bad things in my life) and it helped me tremendously. Stoicism in general has many excellent philosophical …
ViktorRay on Hacker News · 2025-03
In Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)BTW, while I have the top comment, I'll give those here a better introduction to Aurelius's stoicism, Dr Segrue's lecture: [VIDEO]
p3rls on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Stoicism is not enough
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