Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal

Rest in peace King. Thank you for everything Professor. You may have never met me but you have been my companion over these last few years. This lecture is now bittersweet with your passing. You have started a fire in me for Philosophy I didn't know I was capable of burning. I hope one day to be able to teach the next generation also.

"All men suffer, but not all men pity themselves." Damn, that hits hard.

Today we lost a great man whose words changed our way of thinking and being. This lecture, especially, changed my life. Your physical being is gone, but your thoughts and words are with us all in this section of YouTube. RIP.

I learned that he died today, I came to listen and pay tribute to this lecture. Rest in peace Legend.

This lecture got uploaded by another account and gathered millions of views. Glad he has his own channel now and is getting the credit he deserves.

"Do not preach your philosophy, embody it" Marcus Aurelias is the perfect example of this quote.

Imagine the amount of hours this man has put into reading and studying and yet he gives it to us all for free! What a truly remarkable era we live in, so happy to find a gem channel like this!

Thanks for making the world a little better. Rest in peace.

This lecture has changed my life. I'm highly neurotic and have difficulty coping with minor problems, but the way that Professor Sugrue presents Marcus Aurelius has challenged me to hold myself to higher standards. Whenever I have difficulty sleeping at night, I listen to this lecture like a bedtime story and it never gets old. I have been reading Stoic literature but none of them are as inspirational as this talk. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

RIP. This could be the best video on all of YouTube.

I regret not being able to do this earlier - you will live on in my memory!

Who else here for the 500th time?

This man's command of the English language is so good. No notes to look at, just spoke and embodied the topic of philosophy that he loves, as he taught. Had me saying woooow at the end of the video.

A sudden shock from the comment section,I didn't know this great teacher of humanity is no more,Rest in peace.I was just rewatching this masterpiece for some academic purposes,Mankind will remember your contribution.

“You can’t help but feel like at the end of his life he must have felt relieved. That the terrible crushing burden of this loneliness - a man that has no equals and no friends, a man that has nothing but philosophy to guide him - death must have been a great release. It’s like getting the evening off after you’ve put in your turn guarding the camp. And instead of becoming an obscure and unimportant figure, he’s become a symbol in the history of western philosophy.” I had the privilege of being a student of Dr. Sugrue’s at Ave Maria and only learned that he had these online video lectures today when I heard of his passing. It’s fitting that the legacies left with these lectures allows him to become the modern day version of that symbol of philosophy that he describes of Marcus Aurelius, even after death. RIP

RIP Dr. This lecture is a gem 💎: “Marcus Aurelius let us know that all people suffer, but that not all people pity themselves. Marcus Aurelius lets us know that all men die, but that not all men die whining.”

Listening this on the day of his death to commemorate this great teacher. He changed many lives.

I came here to pay my respects. RIP Professor Sugrue.

RIP to my favorite stand up stoic

Many thanks for the hours of insight!