Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

I, of course, am your host, Brett O'Shea.

And today I think we're going to try something a little different.

So I've had a long time sort of fascination with this philosophy lecturer named Michael Sugru.

Unfortunately,

he recently passed.

But he was a philosophy professor that put a bunch of his philosophy lectures up online for free on YouTube.

And they're really wonderful in their own right. He's not like a

necessarily ideological Marxist or anything. He's a philosophy professor. So he's going to explore

different philosophies, you know, from the perspective of sort of a detached objectivity.

And so far as that's possible. But I really enjoy the way he introduces and walks you through the thoughts

of major thinkers. And I've long wanted to do a sort of philosophy episode series. Like I've done

many episodes on philosophy, but I've actually gotten questions from listeners asking, hey,

you know, I'm not into philosophy as much. I find it

interesting. I don't have any training in it. I'm not necessarily well read on it. Could you do

like a series like of maybe introductory philosophy lectures? And although I have a degree in philosophy

and I love philosophy, I don't know if I'm fully equipped to do an intro to many

major thinkers. I could do a few for sure, but I don't know if I could, you know, do high quality

introductions to a bunch of them. There is a wonderful podcast if you're looking for something like

that called Philosophies This with Stephen West. I've been a big fan of for a long time.

We've even talked a little bit on Twitter.

I would love to maybe get him on the show someday, but he's doing a really interesting series

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