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2024

November 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 4 - The Quantum-Mechanical Evidence

November 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 3 - Maidens Choosing

Chapters 23-27

November 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 36-38

November 6, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 297-302

Free Onsite Community Seminar

November 5, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 19

November 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Chapters 1-5 - Economy... Solitude

Free Community Online Seminar Series

November 3, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 33-36

October 31, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 3 - Maidens Choosing

Chapters 19-22

October 31, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 101-end

October 30, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 34-35

October 24, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 2 - Meeting Streams

Chapters 15-18

October 23, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 30-33

October 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 291-297

Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 22, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - Georgia O'Keefe - Part Two

October 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 49-100

October 16, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 23-29

 

Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 15, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verses 17-18

October 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville

Volume 1 - Part 2

Chapter 6 - What Are the Real Advantages that American Society Derives from the Government of Democracy,

Chapter 7 - On the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Effects,

Chapter 9 - On the Principal Causes Tending to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States

October 10, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 2 - Meeting Streams

Chapters 11-14

October 9, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 20-22

October 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 286-291

October 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Self-Reliance by Waldo Emerson

October 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Sections 1-48

October 2, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 14-19

Free Onsite Community Seminar

October 1, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 16

September 29, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 1. A Fable for Tomorrow, 2. The Obligation to Endure, 3. Elixirs of Death, 4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas

September 26, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 1 - The Spoiled Child

Chapters 6-10

September 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 11-13

September 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 281-286

Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 24, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - Georgia O'Keefe - Part One

September 22, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 6 - Sections 10-11: Civil and Legal Administration and
Marriage and Related Topics

September 19, 2024

Online Intensive

Daniel Deronda

Book 1 - The Spoiled Child

Chapters 1-5

September 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Berkeley

Principles of Human Knowledge -Introduction, pages 3-21

September 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 7-10

Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 17, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 15

September 15, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Müller/Schubert — Die Winterreise

September 14, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Four - To Get the Genome; The Geographers; The Book of Man

Free Onsite Community Film Series

September 13, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Lost in Translation

Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola

September 12, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language -

series as a whole

September 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 5-6

September 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 276-281

Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 10, 2024

The Glory of Art - Georgia O'Keeffe 

September 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Nature - Part One - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Section IV - Language to End

September 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville

Volume 1: Part 1 - Introduction, Chapter 8 - On the Federal Constitution

September 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XXVIII - The Killing of the Tree Spirit 

September 5, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, work as a whole

September 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Chapters 1-4

Free Onsite Community Seminar

September 2, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 14

September 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Conclusion

Free Community Online Seminar Series

August 31, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 29-32

Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 30, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Lady Bird

Directed and Written by Greta Gerwig

August 29, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, 257c-279c

Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 27, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (selections)

August 22, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Phaedrus, 227a-257b

Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 20, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 13

 

August 18, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Thirteen - Conclusion - Totalitarianism - A Novel Form of Government

August 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 3 - Mutations

Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 16, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Big

Directed by Penny Marshall and 
Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg

August 15, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, work as a whole

August 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 270-276

Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 13, 2024

The Glory of Art - James Baldwin - On the Creative Process

August 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Imperative of Responsibility by Hans Jonas
Chapter One - The Altered Nature of Human Action

August 8, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, 201d-223d

Free Onsite Community Seminar

August 6, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verses 11-12

August 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Nature - Part One - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction to Section III - Beauty 

August 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 5 - Sections 8-9: General Preamble to the Legal Code

and The Foundations of the New State

August 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

On the Love of the Country, On Living to One's Self, and On Thought and Action by Hazlitt

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2024 (continued)

Free Onsite Community Film Series

August 2, 2024

Compelling Creators: Women in Film - Juno

Directed by Jason Reitman and Written by Diablo Cody

August 1, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Symposium, 172a-201c

July 31, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 265-270

 

Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 30, 2024

Modern Heroine Autobiographies - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 

July 28, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Four - The Proper Study of Mankind is Man - The Miseries of My Father; The Birth of a Clinic; Interfere, Interfere, Interfere; A Village of Dancers, an Atlas of Moles

July 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Twenty and Epilogue 

July 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, work as a whole

July 23, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Masei
Chapters 33:1-36:13

July 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XXIII - Our Debt to the Savage, XIV - The Killing of the Divine King, XXV - Temporary Kings, XXVI - Sacrifice of the King's Son, XXVII - Succession to the Soul

July 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapters Nineteen and Twenty

July 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, 486d-527e

July 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 260-265

Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 14, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 25-28

July 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Twelve - Totalitarianism in Power

July 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Plato on Love and Language

Gorgias, 447a-486d

July 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Ethics, Part V 

July 9, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Matot
Chapters 30:2-32:42

Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 9, 2024

The Glory of Art - Hans Hoffman - The Search for the Real

July 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 255-259

July 2, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Pinchas
Chapters 25:10-30:1

Free Onsite Community Seminar

July 2, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 10

July 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

On Unitarian Christianity - 1819 speech by William Ellery Channing

June 30, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 2 - The Hereditary Mechanism

June 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part IV, Pr. 8-end

June 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Balak
Chapters 22:1-25:9

Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 25, 2024

The Glory of Art - William Morris - The Arts and Crafts of Today

June 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Nineteen - Other Characteristics

June 22, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Three - The Dreams of Geneticists - Crossing Over, The New Music, Einsteins on the Beach, Clone or Die

June 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 249-255

Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 18, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 9

June 15, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen

June 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Parts III and IV

June 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Chukat
Chapters 19:1-22:1

Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 11, 2024

The Glory of Art - Kandinsky - On the Spiritual in Art

June 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eleven - The Totalitarian Movement 

June 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto One by Byron

June 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 245-249

June 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Korach
Chapters 16:1-18:32

Free Onsite Community Seminar

June 4, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 8

June 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Transcendentalism -

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

June 2, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 4 - Sections 6-7: Magnesia and Its People and The Correct Way to Legislate 

June 1, 2024

Online Seminar Series

What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger

Chapter 1 - The Classical Physicist's Approach to the Subject

May 28, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Shlach
Chapters 13:1-15:41

Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 28, 2024

The Glory of Art - Plotinus - On Beauty

May 26, 2024

Onsite Seminar and Play Performance

Nora (an adaptation of A Doll's House by Ibsen) at Antaeus Theatre

May 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XIX - Tabooed Acts, XX - Tabooed Persons, XXI - Tabooed Things, XXIII - Tabooed Words

May 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part III

May 22, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 241-245

May 21, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Behaalotecha
Chapters 8:1-12:16

Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 21, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verses 6-7

May 19, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lecture Eighteen - Philosophy

May 18, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Two - hat Damned, Elusive Pimpernel; Regulation, Replication, Recombination; From Genes to Genesis

May 14, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Naso
Chapters 4:21-7:89

Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 14, 2024

The Glory of Art - Leonardo da Vinci - Introduction to the Book on Painting

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 12, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 21-24

May 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Eight

May 9, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part II continued

May 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 236-241

May 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Numbers - Bamidbar
Chapters 1:1-4:20

Free Onsite Community Seminar

May 7, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 5

May 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. United States 2024 Presidential Immunity Case

May 5, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - Othello

May 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Ten - The Classless Society

April 25, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Twelve
by John Milton

April 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part II

April 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 3 - Sections 4-5: The Lessons of History 

April 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Foscolo

April 18, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Eleven
by John Milton

April 17, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Epilogue

April 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 231-236

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2024 (continued)

Free Onsite Community Seminar

April 16, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 4

April 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XVII - The Burden of Royalty, XVIII - The Perils of the Soul

April 13, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Sixteen and Seventeen - Mysticism

April 11, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Ten
by John Milton

April 11, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 16-36 and Appendix

April 10, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters V-VIII

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 7, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 17-20

April 6, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Two - Truths and Reconciliations, Transformation, Lives Unworthy of Living, That Stupid Molecule, Objects Come in Pairs 

April 4, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Nine
by John Milton

April 3, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters I-IV

April 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 228-231

April 2, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Bechukotai - Chapters 26:3–27:34

Free Onsite Community Seminar

April 2, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 3

March 31, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Seven

March 30, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Work of Flannery O'Connor

Parker's Back and Aquinas on Idolatry - Question 94 - Article 2

March 28, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Eight
by John Milton

March 27, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters IV-V

March 26, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Behar - Chapters 25:1–26:2

March 24, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Nine - The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man

March 23, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The New Testament - Epistles of Paul - First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians, First and Second Letters to Timothy

March 21, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Seven
by John Milton

March 20, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters I-III

March 20, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 222-228

March 19, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Emor -
Chapters 21:1–24:23

Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 19, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 2

March 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Merchant of Venice

March 16, 2024

Onsite Film Seminar Series

The Earrings of Madame de...  Directed by Max Ophüls

March 14, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Six
by John Milton

March 13, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 330-376 - Chapters IV-VI

March 12, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Kedoshim - Chapters 19:1–20:27

March 10, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye

Rene, and Atala by Chateaubriand

March 9, 2024

Online Free Community
Seminar Series

Vitruvius on Architecture - Book II, On Dwellings and Substances

March 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Five
by John Milton

March 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Four - pages 295-330 - Chapters I-III

March 6, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - page 213 to Book Two - Chapter Nine - page 222

March 5, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Acharei Mot - Chapters 16:1–18:30

Free Onsite Community Seminar

March 5, 2024

The Tao Te Ching - Verse 1

March 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. Anderson - Colorado Ballot 2024 Case

March 3, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 2 - Section 3: The Arts in the Service of Education

March 2, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XI - The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation, XII - The Sacred Marriage, XIII - The Kings of Rome and Alba, XIV - The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium, XV - The Worship of the Oak, XVI - Dianus and Diana

February 29, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Four
by John Milton

February 28, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part Three - pages 247-292 - Chapters IV-VI

February 27, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Metzora - Chapters 14:1–15:33

February 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Fourteen and Fifteen - The Value of Saintliness

Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 24, 2024

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 13-16

February 22, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Three

February 22, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15

continued

February 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 206-213

February 20, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tazria

February 18, 2024

Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Part One - A Certain Mendel, Eugenics, Three Generations of Imbeciles Is Enough, Part Two - Abhed

February 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye
The Prelude by Wordsworth

February 15, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book Two
by John Milton

February 14, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part Two - pages 151-204 - Chapters V-VII

February 13, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Shemini - Chapters - 9:1–11:47

February 10, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Six

February 8, 2024

Online Intensive

Paradise Lost - Book One
by John Milton

February 8, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15

February 7, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part Two - pages 95-151 - Chapters I-IV

February 7, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 200-206

February 6, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus - Parashat Tzav - Chapters - 6:1–8:36

February 4, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Jew of Malta

January 31, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky  - Part One - pages 42-91 - Chapters IV-VII

January 30, 2024

Online Intensive

Book of Leviticus -
Parashat Vayikra - Chapters 1:1–5:26

January 28, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eight - Continental imperialism : the pan-movements

January 27, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Work of Flannery O'Connor

The Enduring Chill and Aquinas on Prayer - Question 83 - Article 2

January 25, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology of Spinoza

Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect 

January 24, 2024

Online Intensive

Crime and Punishment by  Dostoevsky - Part One - pages 3-42 - Chapters I-III

January 24, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 196-200

January 21, 2024

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye
Hyperion, or The Hermit of Greece by Holderlin

January 20, 2024

Online Free Community
Seminar Series

Vitruvius on Architecture - Book I, Chapters 1-3

January 17, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 190-195

January 14, 2024

Online Seminar Series

Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapters 5 and 6 - Privacy -  and  Rifle Association v. Bruen

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2023

December 27, 2023

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 182-190)

December 19, 2023

Online Intensive

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Chapters 81-86, Finale

December 17, 2023

Online Seminar Series

The Romantic I/Eye - Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Rousseau

December 14, 2023

Online Seminar Series
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part II of II

December 13, 2023

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 178-182)

December 12, 2023

Online Intensive

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Chapters 72-80

December 10, 2023

Online Seminar Series

Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 1 - (Cooper v. Aaron, pages 12-15), Chapter 4 - Civil Rights (pages 89-109). Also, Tocqueville - Why Democratic Nations Show a More Ardent And Enduring Love of Equality Than of Liberty

December 9, 2023

Online Seminar Series

The Laws of Plato

Book 1 - Section 2: Drinking Parties as an Educational Device

December 7, 2023

Online Seminar Series
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part I of II

December 5, 2023

Online Intensive

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Chapters 68-71

December 3, 2023

Online Seminar Series

Leibniz - Excerpts from the Letters to de Volder, Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on and The Monadology

December 2, 2023

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen - Saintliness 

November 29, 2023

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 173-178)

November 28, 2023

Online Intensive

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Chapters 63-67

November 22, 2023

Online Intensive

Book of Exodus - Chapters 38:21 - 40:38

November 21, 2023

Online Intensive

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Chapters 58-62

November 19, 2023

Online Seminar Series

The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters VII - Incarnate Human Gods, VIII - Departmental Kings of Nature, IX - The Worship of Trees, X - Relics of Tree-worship in Modern Europe

Free Community Online Seminar Series

November 18, 2023

The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 9-12

November 15, 2023

Online Intensive

Book of Exodus - Chapters 35:1 - 38:20

November 15, 2023

Online Seminar Series

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Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 166-173)

November 14, 2023

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November 12, 2023

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November 11, 2023

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November 8, 2023

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November 7, 2023

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Chapters 49-53

November 5, 2023

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November 4, 2023

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Chapter Seven - Imperialism

November 1, 2023

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November 1, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 160-166)

October 31, 2023

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Chapters 43-48

 

October 29, 2023

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October 27, 2023

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October 25, 2023

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October 24, 2023

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Chapters 38-42

October 22, 2023

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October 21, 2023

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October 18, 2023

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October 18, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 155-160)

October 17, 2023

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Chapters 34-37

 

October 15, 2023

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October 11, 2023

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October 10, 2023

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Chapters 28-33

October 8, 2023

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October 7, 2023

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October 4, 2023

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October 3, 2023

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Chapters 23-27

September 27, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 151-155)

September 26, 2023

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Chapters 18-22

September 26, 2023

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September 24, 2023

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Book 1 - Section 1: The Inadequacy of Spartan and Cretan Legislation

September 23, 2023

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Lecture Ten - Conversion, Concluded

September 20, 2023

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September 19, 2023

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Chapters 13-17

September 17, 2023

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September 16, 2023

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September 13, 2023

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September 12, 2023

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September 10, 2023

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September 9, 2023

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September 6, 2023

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September 6, 2023

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September 5, 2023

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September 3, 2023

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September 2, 2023

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August 28, 2023

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August 27, 2023

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Chapter Six - Imperialism

August 26, 2023

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August 23, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 143, Question 9 - 145 Question 10)

August 22, 2023

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August 21, 2023

Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Vertigo - 1958

August 20, 2023

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The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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August 19, 2023

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August 14, 2023

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August 13, 2023

The Glory of Art - The Arts and Crafts of Today by William Morris

August 9, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 138-143, Question 8)

August 8, 2023

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August 7, 2023

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July 29, 2023

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July 26, 2023

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July 25, 2023

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July 23, 2023

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July 22, 2023

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July 16, 2023

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July 15, 2023

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July 12, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 132 -135

July 11, 2023

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July 9, 2023

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July 8, 2023

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July 3, 2023

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July 2, 2023

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July 1, 2023

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June 28, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Six - pages 128 -132

June 27, 2023

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June 26, 2023

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June 25, 2023

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Jane Austin - Persuasion

June 24, 2023

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Lecture Eight - The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification

June 17, 2023

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June 14, 2023

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June 4, 2023

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June 3, 2023

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June 1, 2023

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May 31, 2023

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May 30, 2023

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May 30, 2023

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May 28, 2023

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May 27, 2023

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May 23, 2023

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May 21, 2023

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May 20, 2023

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The Taming of the Shrew

May 18, 2023

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May 17, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Five - pages 118-124

May 16, 2023

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May 16, 2023

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May 13, 2023

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May 11, 2023

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May 9, 2023

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May 7, 2023

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May 6, 2023

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May 4, 2023

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May 3, 2023

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May 2, 2023

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May 2, 2023

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New Science by Giambattista Vico - Idea of the Work 

April 29, 2023

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April 27, 2023

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Plutarch - Life of Alexander

April 27, 2023

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April 25, 2023

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April 24, 2023

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April 22, 2023

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April 22, 2023

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April 20, 2023

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April 20, 2023

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April 19, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Five - pages 112-114

April 18, 2023

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April 17, 2023

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April 16, 2023

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Hannah Arendt - Truth and Politics

April 15, 2023

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Lectures Four and Five - The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness 

April 13, 2023

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April 13, 2023

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April 11, 2023

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April 10, 2023

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April 8, 2023

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Part Three of Three - pages 216 to end

April 6, 2023

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Xenophon - Hellenika - Book Four

April 6, 2023

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April 5, 2023

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April 4, 2023

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April 2, 2023

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April 1, 2023

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March 30, 2023

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March 30, 2023

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March 28, 2023

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March 27, 2023

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March 26, 2023

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March 25, 2023

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March 23, 2023

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Xenophon - Hellenika - Book Two

March 23, 2023

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March 22, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Five - pages 105-107

March 21, 2023

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March 20, 2023

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March 20, 2023

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Federalist Papers 1 and 2

March 19, 2023

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The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch

March 18, 2023

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Lecture Three - Circumscription of the Topic

March 16, 2023

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March 16, 2023

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March 14, 2023

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March 13, 2023

The Glory of Art - Plotinus on Beauty and Kandinski on the Spiritual in Art

March 9, 2023

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March 8, 2023

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March 6, 2023

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March 6, 2023

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March 5, 2023

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March 2, 2023

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March 2, 2023

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February 27, 2023

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February 26, 2023

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February 25, 2023

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February 23, 2023

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Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Seven

February 23, 2023

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February 22, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Four - pages 99-102 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce

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February 20, 2023

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February 20, 2023

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The Declaration of Independence - 1776

February 19, 2023

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February 18, 2023

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February 16, 2023

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February 16, 2023

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February 13, 2023

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February 11, 2023

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February 9, 2023

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February 9, 2023

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February 8, 2023

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Four - pages 95-99 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce

February 7, 2023

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February 6, 2023

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February 5, 2023

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February 4, 2023

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February 2, 2023

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Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Four

February 2, 2023

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January 31, 2023

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January 29, 2023

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January 28, 2023

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Preface and Lecture One - Religion and Neurology

January 26, 2023

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Greek History - Part Two

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Three

 

January 26, 2023

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January 25, 2023

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Four - pages 89-94 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce

January 24, 2023

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January 23, 2023

RELAUNCH - The Foundations of Our Republic - The Articles of Association - 1774

January 22, 2023

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January 21, 2023

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Part One of Three - pages 9-104

January 19, 2023

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January 19, 2023

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January 17, 2023

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January 16, 2023

On Mandala Symbolism - by Jung

January 12, 2023

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Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book One

January 11, 2023

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Book One - Chapter Four - pages 86-89 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce

January 10, 2023

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January 9, 2023

The Foundations of Our Republic - Dobbs v. Mississippi Supreme Court Decision (edited)

 

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December 28, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Four - pages 81-86 of Finnegans Wake by Joyce 

December 20, 2022

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Chapters 131-Epilogue

December 18, 2022

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December 15, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Nine

December 13, 2022

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December 12, 2022

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December 11, 2022

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December 8, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Eight

December 6, 2022

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December 5, 2022

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December 4, 2022

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December 3, 2022

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December 1, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Seven

November 30, 2022

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Book One - Chapter Four continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Four of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

November 29, 2022

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Chapters 98-106

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November 21, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

November 20, 2022

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November 17, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Six

November 16, 2022

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November 16, 2022

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Book One - Chapter Four continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Four of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

November 15, 2022

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Chapters 88-97

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November 14, 2022

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November 12, 2022

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November 10, 2022

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November 9, 2022

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November 8, 2022

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November 7, 2022

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November 6, 2022

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November 5, 2022

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November 3, 2022

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November 2, 2022

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September 7, 2022

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Book One - Chapter Four of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Four of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

November 1 2022

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October 30, 2022

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October 27, 2022

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October 26, 2022

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October 25, 2022

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October 24, 2022

Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation - by Jung - Paragraphs 489-524

October 23, 2022

Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - The Epistle to the Reader and Book I

October 22, 2022

Online Seminar Series - Is Natural Law Real?​ - Selections from Augustine - City of God

October 20, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Two

October 19, 2022

Online American History Intensive
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October 19, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Three concluded of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

October 18, 2022

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 53-58

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October 17, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Supreme Court Case - Brown v. Board of Education

October 13, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book One

October 12, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Boorstin - Language, Knowledge, and the Arts

October 11, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 45-52

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October 10, 2022

The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales - The Trickster - by Jung - Paragraphs 456-488

October 9, 2022

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapter XL

October 8, 2022

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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - The Life of Brutus by Plutarch

October 6, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The City Part Two

October 5, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Kendi - Angela Davis - Chapters 30-33

October 5, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

October 4, 2022

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 38-44

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October 3, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Supreme Court Case - Plessy v. Ferguson

September 29, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The City Part One

September 28, 2022

Onsite Ojai Chautauqua City Council Candidate Forum

September 27, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 32-37

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September 26, 2022

The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales by Jung Part Two - Paragraphs 419-455

September 25, 2022

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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - The Life of Caesar by Plutarch

September 24, 2022

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The New Testament - Gospel of John

September 22, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - The Family

September 21, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Lepore - Battle Lines

September 21, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

September 20, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 23-31

 

Free Community Online Seminar Series

September 19, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Four

September 18, 2022

Online Seminar Series - The Work of Flannery O'Connor - Good Country People and Aquinas on Prudence

September 15, 2022

Greek History Intensive - Section One - The Ancient City - Ancient Beliefs

September 14, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - Boorstin - The Thinner Life of Things

September 13, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 16-22

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September 12, 2022

The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales by Jung - Paragraphs 384-455

September 11, 2022

Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part Two, by George Orwell

September 10, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology

Descartes - Meditation Six

September 7, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

September 6, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapters 6-15

August 31, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letting from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream Speech.

August 30, 2022

Online Intensive

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Etymology, Extracts, and Chapters 1-5

August 28, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters XXIV-XXXIX

August 27, 2022

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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Coriolanus by Shakespeare

August 24, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Eighteen - Lepore - Rights and Wrongs

August 24, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter Three continued of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

August 21, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Three

 

2022 (continued)

February 19, 2023

Online Seminar Series

On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers - 

Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere - 

Is Equality an Absolute Good? by Evan Brann

February 18, 2023

Online Seminar Series

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Preface and Lecture Two - Circumscription of the Topic

February 16, 2023

Online Intensive

Greek History - Part Two

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War - Book Six

February 16, 2023

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Prologue and Chapters 27-31

August 20, 2022

Online Seminar Series - Is Natural Law Real?​ - Selections from Cicero's - On the Republic and On the Laws

August 17, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Seventeen - Boorstin - Mass-Producing the Moment

August 14, 2022

Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part One, by George Orwell

August 13, 2022

Online Seminar

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

August 10, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Sixteen - Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case

August 10, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Beginning Book One - Chapter Three of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Three of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

August 3, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Fifteen - Lepore -  A World of Knowledge

July 30, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Twenty-Six to Thirty-Three

July 27, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Fourteen - Boorstin -  The Decline of the Miraculous

July 27, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Concluding Book One - Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

July 24, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Life of Coriolanus by Plutarch

July 20, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Thirteen - Lepore -  The Brutality of Modernity

July 16, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Is Natural Law Real? - Part V

Selections from Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
 

July 13, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Twelve - Boorstin -  The Urban Quest for Place

July 13, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Continued Book One - Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

July 10, 2022

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Epistemology

Descartes - Meditations Four and Five

July 9, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The New Testament - Gospel of Luke

July 6, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Eleven - Lepore - A Constitution of the Air

June 29, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Ten - Kendi - W.E.B. Du Bois - Chapters 26-29

June 29, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Finishing Book One - Chapter One, and starting Chapter Two of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Chapter Two of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

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June 27, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Three

June 26, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

What is Called Thinking - Lectures IV, V, and X of Part Two

June 25, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Sixteen to Twenty-Three

June 22, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Nine - Boorstin - Statistical Communities

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 20, 2022

The Psychological Aspects of the Kore - Case Studies - Paragraphs 306-383

June 15, 2022

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Continued - Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

June 12, 2022

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Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Titus Andronicus

June 11, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The New Testament - Gospel of Mark

June 9, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - The Talisman of Integrity Replete, The Great Ancestral Master, The Way of Emperors and Kings

June 8, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Three - Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, dissenting opinion, and background

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 6, 2022

The Psychological Aspects of the Kore - Paragraphs 306-383

June 5, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

What is Called Thinking - Lectures I-III of Part Two

June 4, 2022

Onsite Seminar and Play Performance

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
at Antaeus Theatre

June 2, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - To Care for This Life, The Human Realm

June 1, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Three - Lepore - Efficiency and the Masses

June 1, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Continued - Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

May 31, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part II - Chapter III: The Transformations of the Hero

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 30, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Two

May 28, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - Second half

May 26, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - Wandering Boundless and Free, A Little Talk About Evening Things Out

May 25, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Three - Kendi - W.E.B. Du Bois - Chapters 21-25

May 24, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part II - Chapter II: The Virgin Birth

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 23, 2022

Rereading The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305

May 22, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapter Fifteen

May 19, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 61-81

May 18, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Five - Boorstin - Consumption Communities

May 18, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Continuing Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

May 17, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part I - Chapter IV - The Keys and Part II - The Cosmogonic Cycle - Chapter I: Emanations

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 16, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Forethought and Chapter One

May 15, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

What is Called Thinking - Lectures I-III of Part One

May 14, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd

Animal Farm by George Orwell

May 12, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Tao Te Ching -

May 11, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Three - Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk - Forethought and Chapters 1-4

May 10, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter III: Return

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 9, 2022

The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305

May 7, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The New Testament - Gospel of Matthew

May 5, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 21-38

May 4, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Three - Lepore

The State - Of Citizens, Persons, and People

May 4, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Book One - Chapter One of Finnegans Wake by Joyce, and Introduction and Chapter One of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake by William Tindall

May 3, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter II: Initiation

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 2, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - The Broken Constitution - Introduction - Noah Feldman 

May 1, 2022

Online Seminar Series

I and Thou - Part Four

Section Three

April 30, 2022

Online Seminar

Waiting for God by Simone Weil - Letters IV-VI, and Reflections on the Right Studies with a View to the Love of God

April 28, 2022

Online Intensive

The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 12-20

April 27, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century

Session Two - Kendi  - Reconstructing Slavery and Reconstructing Blame

April 26, 2022

Online Intensive

Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Chapter I - Departure

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 25, 2022

On Rebirth by Jung -  A Set of Symbols Illustrating Transformation - Paragraphs 240-258

April 24, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

The Question Concerning Technology

April 23, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology

Descartes - Meditation Three

2022 (continued)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 18, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln - First Inaugural Address

April 14, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - King Hedley II

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 11, 2022

On Rebirth by Jung - Middle Third - Paragraphs 199-258

April 9, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - First Half

April 7, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Jitney

April 6, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Epilogue

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 4, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln - Cooper Union Address

April 3, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

Rectors Address, Reunion Speech, and Bibliography

April 2, 2022

Online Seminar Series

History Plays of Shakespeare -Henry VIII

March 31, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Two Trains Running

Free Community Online Seminar Series

March 28, 2022

On Rebirth by Jung - First Half -  Paragraphs 199-258

March 27, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Epistemology

Descartes - Meditations One and Two

March 26, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Three - Fourteen (abridged)

March 24, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Fences

March 23, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twenty-four - Boorstin -
A Spacious Republic

March 23, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Part Four - Book Twelve - A Judicial Error II (second half)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

March 21, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln Douglas Debates (edited)

March 20, 2022

Online Seminar Series

I and Thou - Part Three

Part Two

March 17, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Seven Guitars

March 16, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twenty-three - Kendi -
17. History's Emancipator and 18. Ready for Freedom?

Free Community Online Seminar Series

March 14, 2022

Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype
by Jung Paragraphs 148-198

March 13, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Introduction to Martin Heidegger

History of Political Philosophy by Strauss - Chapter on Heidegger

March 12, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

March 10, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - The Piano Lesson

March 9, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twenty-two - Lepore -
The Face of Battle

March 9, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Part Four - Book Twelve - A Judicial Error I (first half)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

March 7, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln House Divided Speech

March 6, 2022

Online Seminar Series

I and Thou - Part Two

End of Part One, beginning of Part Two

March 5, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Preface, Section One

March 3, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

March 2, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twenty-one - Boorstin -
Search For Symbols

March 2, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Eighteen: Penelope

Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 28, 2022

Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept by Jung
Paragraphs 111-147

February 27, 2022

Online Seminar Series

History Plays of Shakespeare - Edward III

February 26, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Is Natural Law Real? - Part IV

Selections from Maritain and Aristotle

February 24, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman - Part Two

February 24, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Joe Turner's Come and Gone

February 23, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twenty - Boorstin - American Ways of Talking

February 23, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part Four - Book Eleven - Brother Ivan Fyodorovich

Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 21, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Dred Scott Dissenting Opinions

February 20, 2022

Online Seminar Series

I and Thou - Part One

Introduction and First Part

February 19, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Espionage and the Common Good

Global Trends 2040: Navigating a More Contested World - National Intelligence Council, U.S. Institute of Peace, and Annual Threat Assessment, April 2021 

- Office of the Director of National Intelligence 

February 17, 2022

Online Intensive

The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Gem of the Ocean

February 16, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Nineteen - Dred Scot Decision, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Kendi Chapter 16

February 15, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book Three - Chapters 4-13

Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 14, 2022

The Concept of the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung

Paragraphs 87-110

February 13, 2022

Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part IX -

Selections from Sextus Empiricus

- Book One of Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Chapters 1 - 14)

February 12, 2022

Online Seminar Series

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters One and Two 

February 10, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman - Part One

February 9, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Eighteen - Lincoln -

House Divided and Cooper Union Speeches

February 9, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part Four - Book Ten - Boys

February 8, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book Three - Chapters 1-3

 

Free Community Online Seminar Series

February 7, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Court Decision

February 2, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Seventeen - Lincoln -

Lyceum Address, Temperance Address, Mexican War Speech

February 2, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Seventeen: Ithaca

February 1, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book Two - Chapters 6-12

Free Community Online Seminar Series

January 31, 2022

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung

Paragraphs 45-86

January 30, 2022

Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison

Paradise - pages 218-end

January 27, 2022

Online Wittgenstein Intensive

Philosophical Investigations
§§183-309

 

January 26, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Sixteen - Boorstin -

The Vagueness Of The Land

January 26, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part Three - Book Nine - The Preliminary Investigation

 

January 25, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book Two - Chapters 1-5

Free Community Online Seminar Series

January 24, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln's Mexican War Speech

January 23, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Espionage and the Common Good

AFIO's Guide and OSS Conversation: The Osama Bin Laden Raid

January 22, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo -

Third Day pp. 318-399

Fourth Day pp. 416-465

January 20, 2022

Online Wittgenstein Intensive

Philosophical Investigations
§§134-182

January 19, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Fifteen - Boorstin -

The Rooted And The Uprooted

January 18, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book One - Part Two

Free Community Online Seminar Series

January 17, 2022

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung

Paragraphs 1-44

January 16, 2022

Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison

Paradise - pages 141-217

January 15, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd  

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault - Chapters 6-10

January 13, 2022

Online Wittgenstein Intensive

Philosophical Investigations
§§39-113

 

January 12, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Fourteen - Lepore -

Of Ships and Shipwrecks

January 12, 2022

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part Three - Book Eight - Mitya

January 11, 2022

Online Intensive

On the Soul by Aristotle

Book One - Part One

Free Community Online Seminar Series

January 10, 2022

The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln's Lyceum and Temperance Speeches - 1838 and 1842

January 10, 2022

Online Seminar Series

History Plays - Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

January 9, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Is Natural Law Real? - Part III

Selections from Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, and Maritain

January 6, 2022

Online Wittgenstein Intensive

Philosophical Investigations
§§1-38

January 5, 2022

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Thirteen - Kendi - Part Three - William Lloyd Garrison

January 5, 2022

Online Seminar Series

Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Sixteen: Eumaeus

2021

December 22, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Twelve - Boorstin - The Upstarts

December 22, 2021

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part Three - Book Seven - Alyosha

December 16, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy

On Generation and Corruption

 

December 15, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Eleven - The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

December 12, 2021

Online Seminar Series

Herodotus - The Histories - Book Nine

December 11, 2021

Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part VIII -

Posterior Analytics by Aristotle - Book 2 (selections)

December 9, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy

Physics IV by Aristotle

December 8, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Ten - Lepore - The People

Six - The Soul and the Machine

 

December 8, 2021

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part One - Book Six - The Russian Monk

Free Community Online Seminar Series

December 6, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Volume I - Chapter Eight (final 3rd)

December 5, 2021

Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison

Paradise - pages 81-138

December 2, 2021

Finding Eurydice - Then and Now

Panel

December 2, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy

Physics III by Aristotle

December 1, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Nine - Part Two - Kendi
Thomas Jefferson Continued

 

December 1, 2021

Online Seminar Series

Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Fifteen: Circe
(final 1/3)

November 29, 2021

Finding Eurydice - Then and Now

Myth, Play, and Opera

November 24, 2021

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part One - Book Five - Pro and Contra

November 21, 2021

Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison

Paradise - pages 3-77

November 20, 2021

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Paradiso by Dante - Cantos 17-33

November 18, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy

Physics II by Aristotle

November 17, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Eight - Part Two -
The Transients - Joiners

November 16, 2021

Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Ten

Free Community Online Seminar Series

November 15, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Volume I - Chapter Eight (Federal Courts)

November 14, 2021

Online Seminar Series

Espionage and the Common Good

Selections from Olsen Continued

November 11, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy

Physics I by Aristotle

Free Community Online Seminar Series

November 11, 2021

The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Four - The Revolutions: Chapter 12, and Book Five - The Municipal Regime Disappears

November 10, 2021

Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War

Session Seven - Anti-Federalists Brutus I and Cato II

November 10, 2021

Online Brother Karamazov Intensive

Part One - Book Four -Strains

November 9, 2021

Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Nine

November 7, 2021

Online Seminar Series

Herodotus - The Histories - Book Eight

November 6, 2021

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October 21, 2021

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September 21, 2021

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August 22, 2021

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August 21, 2021

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June 21, 2021

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June 20, 2021

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June 19, 2021

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June 19, 2021

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June 16, 2021

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June 15, 2021

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June 13, 2021

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June 12, 2021

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June 10, 2021

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June 1, 2021

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June 1, 2021

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May 30, 2021

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May 27, 2021

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May 25, 2021

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May 24, 2021

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May 23, 2021

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May 23, 2021

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May 22, 2021

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May 20, 2021

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May 19, 2021

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Stamped from the Beginning

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May 18, 2021

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Clouds by Aristophanes

May 18, 2021

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May 16, 2021

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Emily Levine and Bergson on Laughter

 

May 15, 2021

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Purgatorio by Dante - Cantos 1-16

May 15, 2021

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May 13, 2021

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May 13, 2021

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May 12, 2021

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The Transplanters of Virginia

May 11, 2021

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Hippolytus by Euripides

May 11, 2021

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May 10, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XVIII and XIX

May 6, 2021

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May 5, 2021

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The Settlers of Georgia

May 5, 2021

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May 4, 2021

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The Bacchae by Euripides

May 4, 2021

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May 2, 2021

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April 29, 2021

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April 29, 2021

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April 28, 2021

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The Quakers of Pennsylvania

April 27, 2021

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April 26, 2021

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April 25, 2021

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Theaetetus by Plato, Part One - (142a-186e)

April 25, 2021

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April 24, 2021

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Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo - First Day, page 101 to Second Day - page 107, and 

Second Day - pages 113-182

April 22, 2021

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Medea by Euripides

April 21, 2021

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The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay

April 20, 2021

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Antigone by Sophocles

April 18, 2021

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Herodotus - The Histories - Book Three

April 17, 2021

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Inferno by Dante -
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April 15, 2021

Online Greek Intensive
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Antigone by Sophocles

 

April 13, 2021

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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

 

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April 12, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV revisited

April 11, 2021

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

by Lewis Carroll

April 11, 2021

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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Beloved, pages 199-277 (Part II)

April 10, 2021

Online Seminar series

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book Two

April 10, 2021

Online Seminar Series

Anguish and the Absurd - Part VIII
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April 8, 2021

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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

April 7, 2021

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April 6, 2021

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

April 1, 2021

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

March 30, 2021

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Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

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March 29, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XV

March 28, 2021

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Herodotus - The Histories - Book Two

March 27, 2021

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March 25, 2021

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Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

March 23, 2021

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The Eumenides by Aeschylus

March 21, 2021

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March 20, 2021

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March 20, 2021
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Charulata - 1964 Indian Film

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March 18, 2021

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The Eumenides by Aeschylus

March 16, 2021

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The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

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March 15, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV Supreme Court Cases

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March 13, 2021

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Part I - Book One, Chapters 10-18

March 13, 2021

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

March 11, 2021

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The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

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March 11, 2021

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March 9, 2021

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Agamemnon by Aeschylus

March 7, 2021

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Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book One 

March 7, 2021

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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Beloved, pages 87-196

March 6, 2021

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Inferno by Dante - Cantos 1-16

March 6, 2021

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March 4, 2021

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Agamemnon by Aeschylus

March 3, 2021
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March 1, 2021

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February 28, 2021

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February 27, 2021
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February 25, 2021

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February 25, 2021

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February 23, 2021

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February 21, 2021

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Selections from Twain and Wilde on Lying

February 20, 2021

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February 18, 2021

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Iliad, Poem of Force by Simone Weil

February 16, 2021

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February 15, 2021

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XI, XII

February 14, 2021

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February 13, 2021

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Anguish and the Absurd - Part VI
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February 11, 2021

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Odyssey by Homer, Books Twenty-one to Twenty Four

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February 11, 2021

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February 9, 2021

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February 7, 2021

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February 6, 2021

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February 4, 2021

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Odyssey by Homer, Books Seventeen to Twenty

February 2, 2021

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February 1, 2021

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January 31, 2021

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January 30, 2021

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January 28, 2021

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January 26, 2021

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January 24, 2021

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January 23, 2021

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January 21, 2021

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January 19, 2021

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January 18, 2021

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January 17, 2021

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January 16, 2021

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January 14, 2021

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January 14, 2021

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January 12, 2021

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January 7, 2021

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January 5, 2021

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January 4, 2021

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December 17, 2020

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December 15, 2020

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December 14, 2020

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December 13, 2020

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December  12, 2020

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December 10, 2020

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December 3, 2020

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December 3, 2020

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December 1, 2020

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November 30, 2020

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November 19, 2020

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November 16, 2020

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November 15, 2020
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November 14, 2020
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November 12, 2020

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November 12, 2020

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November 10, 2020

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November 2, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - James Madison - Memorial and Remonstrance - Against Religious Assessments &

Thomas Jefferson - The Virginia Statute - for Religious Freedom

November 1, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part VI

October 31, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Seneca - Part II - On the Shortness of Life

October 29, 2020

Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Hamilton - Mythology, Parts Two and Three

Free Community Online Seminar Series

October 29, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter sixteen

October 27, 2020

Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort Two
Hamilton - Mythology, Part One

October 24, 2020

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part IV - True Histories by Lucian

October 22, 2020

Online Greek Intensive
Section One - Cohort One
Hamilton - Mythology, Part One

Free Community Online Seminar Series

October 19, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Articles Six and Seven

October 18, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part IV - Of the power of the imagination, Of Cato the Younger, A consideration upon Cicero

Of Democritus and Heraclitus, Of vain subtleties, Of books

October 17, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian - War - Book Five

Free Community Online Seminar Series

October 15, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen

October 11, 2020

Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part VI -

Leo Strauss, Mutual Influence of Theology and Philosophy

October 10, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Chapters IX - End

Free Community Online Seminar Series

October 5, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Articles Four and Five

October 4, 2020

Online Seminar Series - Words of Divine Love in the Medieval East & West - Part II
Hafiz and Angela da Foligno

October 3, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Chapters I-VIII

Free Community Online Seminar Series

October 1, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Twelve and Thirteen

September 27, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part V

September 26, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Part IV - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Free Community Online Seminar Series

September 21, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Three

September 20, 2020

Online Seminar Series - Words of Divine Love in the Medieval East & West - Part I
Hildegard von Bingen and Rumi

September 19, 2020

Online Seminar Series on Seneca - Part I - On Anger, Book Three

Free Community Online Seminar Series

September 17, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Ten and Eleven

September 13, 2020

Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part V -

Al Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers - Discussion 3 and Averroes, Decisive Treatise

September 12, 2020

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part III - Frogs by Aristophanes

Free Community Online Seminar Series

September 7, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Two - Sections Two through Four

September 6, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part III - On Experience

September 5, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Four

Free Community Online Seminar Series

September 3, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Nine

August 30, 2020
Online Seminar - Waiting for God
Selected Essays by Simone Weil

August 29, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part III - Selections from Thomas Aquinas

August 27, 2020

Online Seminar Series

Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part II - Books Six-Ten

Free Community Online Seminar Series

August 24, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article Two - Section One

August 23, 2020

Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part IV -

Maimonides - Guide for the Perplexed - Creation and the Eternity of the Universe

August 22, 2020 ​
Online Film Seminar
Shame - 1968 Film by Ingmar Bergman

August 20, 2020

Online Seminar Series

Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part I - Books One-Five

Free Community Online Seminar Series

August 20, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Eight, continued

2020 continued

August 15, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part IV

Free Community Online Seminar Series

August 10, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article One - Sections 9-10

August 9, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Anguish and the Absurd - Part III - Selected stories of Jorge Luis Borges

August 8, 2020

Online Seminar

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Free Community Online Seminar Series

August 6, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Eight

August 2, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne - Part II

To the Reader, Of Idleness, Of Solitude, - Of Diversion, Of the Art of Discussion

August 1, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Three

Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 27, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Article One - Section 8

July 26, 2020

Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part III -

Fides et Ratio and Thomas Aquinas on natural law

July 25, 2020

Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part II - The Book of Jonah

Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 23, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Seven concluded

July 19, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part III

July 18, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part iI - Aristotle Ethics, Books 8 and 9 edited

Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 13, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Preamble, Article One - Sections 3-7

July 11, 2020

Online Seminar
Russian Short Stories

Tolstoy, The Forged Coupon
Dostoevsky, The Honest Thief

Free Community Online Seminar Series

July 9, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Seven

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 29, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Constitution of the U.S. Preamble, Article One - Sections One and Two.

June 28, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Michel de Montaigne

To the Reader, Of Cannibals, The Education of Children, Of Cruelty, and Of Repentance

June 27, 2020

Online Seminar
Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part II -

Plato, Euthyphro

June 25, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (pages 34-end)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 25, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapters Five and Six

June 20, 2020

Series on Anguish and the Absurd  - Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

June 18, 2020

Online Seminar
Series on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (pages 1-34)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 15, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Anti-Federalist Papers Brutus I and Cato II

June 13, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part II Combray II, pages 49-135

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 11, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Four

June 7, 2020

Online Special Event, in Cooperation
with the 74th Annual Ojai Music Festival
The Spaces Where You Go to Listen: Deep Listening in the Time of Pandemic

June 6, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book Two

Free Community Online Seminar Series

June 1, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 78, 85

May 30, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Selections from Odyssey by Homer

May 28, 2020

Free Online Ojai Chautauqua Panel
What is the Future of Education After COVID-19?

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 28, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Three

May 23, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love

Symposium by Plato

May 21, 2020
Online Seminar Series
The Plague by Albert Camus
Parts Three, Four, and Five

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 18, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 70

May 17, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Anguish and the Absurd  - The Trial by Franz Kafka, Film directed by Orson Welles

May 16, 2020

Online Seminar

Series On Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Part I Combray, Chapter One

May 14, 2020
Online Seminar Series

The Plague by Albert Camus

Parts One and Two

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 14, 2020

Eastern Classics

Bhagavad Gita - Chapters One and Two

May 9, 2020

Online Seminar

Series - Athens and Jerusalem:
Reason and Revelation - Part I
Genesis 1-3 and Leo Strauss - On the Interpretation of Genesis

Free Community Online Seminar Series

May 4, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 69

May 2, 2020

Online Seminar

Series on Thucydides - The Peloponnesian
War - Book One

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 30, 2020

Eastern Classics

Confucius - Analects - Chapter Seven

April 25, 2020
Online Seminar

Series - The Story Within the Story III - The Arabian Nights (selections)

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 20, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 66 and 68

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 16, 2020

Eastern Classics

Confucius - Analects - Chapters Five and Six

April 11, 2020

Online Film Seminar

The Stranger by Albert Camus
Film and Text Pairing

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 9, 2020

Eastern Classics

Confucius - Analects - Chapters Three and Four

Free Community Online Seminar Series

April 6, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 65

March 28, 2020

Online Seminar

Democracy in America, Volume 2 (selections)
by Alexis de Tocqueville

February 29, 2020

Series - The Story Within the Story II - Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Free Community Seminar Series

February 25, 2020

Greek Philosophy

Phaedo by Plato, part II

Free Community Seminar Series

February 24, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 52

February 22, 2020

Pragmatism by William James

Free Community Seminar Series

February 20, 2020

Eastern Classics

Confucius - Analects - Chapters One and Two

February 16, 2020

Ojai Chautauqua Panel Series on Education

Addressing Declining Public School Enrollment in Ojai

Free Community Seminar Series

February 11, 2020

Greek Philosophy

Phaedo by Plato, part I

Free Community Seminar Series

February 10, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 51, part II

February 8, 2020

Series - The Story Within the Story I - The Decameron (selections)

Free Community Seminar Series

February 6, 2020

Eastern Classics

Confucius - Analects - Chapter One

Free Community Seminar Series

January 30, 2020

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapters 15, 18

Free Community Seminar Series

January 28, 2020

Greek Philosophy

Crito by Plato

Free Community Seminar Series

January 27, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 51

Free Community Seminar Series

January 16, 2020

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter Eight

Free Community Seminar Series

January 13, 2020

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 10, Part 2

January 11, 2020

Experience and Education
by John Dewey

Free Community Seminar Series

January 6, 2020

Greek Philosophy

Apology part II by Plato

2019

Free Community Seminar Series

December 23, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 10, Part 1

Free Community Seminar Series

December 19, 2019

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter Five

December 15, 2019
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane
Short Story and Film Presentation

Free Community Seminar Series

December 11, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Apology by Plato

Free Community Seminar Series

December 9, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Paper 9

December 7, 2019

Lyric Poetry of Emily Dickinson
and Sylvia Plath

Free Community Seminar Series

December 5, 2019

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter Four

Free Community Seminar Series

November 25, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II

Federalist Paper 6

Free Community Seminar Series

November 21, 2019

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter Three

Free Community Seminar Series

November 13, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Euthyphro by Plato

Free Community Seminar Series

November 11, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II

Federalist Papers 2

November 9, 2019

The Origin of Species (selections)

by Charles Darwin

Free Community Seminar Series

November 7, 2019

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter Two

November 2, 2019
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (selections) by Thomas Kuhn

Free Community Seminar Series

October 28, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Federalist Papers 1

Free Community Seminar Series

October 23, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Symposium by Plato - Part III

Free Community Seminar Series

October 17, 2019

Eastern Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chapter One

Free Community Seminar Series

October 14, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part III

September 28, 2019

Lincoln's Pre-Civil War Speeches:
Timely Thoughts on Enduring Political Institutions

Free Community Seminar Series

September 25, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Symposium by Plato - Part II

Free Community Seminar Series

September 23, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part II

September 14, 2019
Two Dialogues of Plato
Apology and Crito

Free Community Seminar Series

September 11, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Symposium by Plato - Part One

Free Community Seminar Series

September 9, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Articles of Confederation, Part I

August 31, 2019

The Theory of the Leisure Class - Part II - by Thorstein Veblen

Free Community Seminar Series

August 28, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Meno by Plato - Part Two

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Italian Movie Night II
The Bicycle Thieves

Free Community Seminar Series

August 26, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Declaration of Independence Part II

August 25, 2019
Ojai Chautauqua Panel Series on Education
What is Education For?

Free Community Seminar Series

August 14, 2019

Greek Philosophy

Meno by Plato - Part One

Free Community Seminar Series

August 12, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - The Declaration of Independence

August 10, 2019
Billy Budd

by Herman Melville
Short Story and Film Presentation

August 4, 2019
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht

Seminar and Play Performance

August 3, 2019
Beyond Good and Evil - Part II

by Friedrich Nietzsche

July 28, 2019

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

Is Legal Cannabis Good for Ojai

June 30, 2019

Engage to Impact -
Series on Growth and Innovation
in Ojai Public Schools

Free Community Seminar Series

June 26, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Pythagoras - Golden Verses Part II

Free Community Seminar Series

June 20, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

Letter from Birmingham Jail

June 15, 2019

An Inquiry of Nature  -
Selections from Newton and Einstein

Free Community Seminar Series

June 12, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Pythagoras - Golden Verses Part I

Free Community Seminar Series

June 6, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

Brown v. Board of Education

June 1, 2019

The Theory of the Leisure Class - Part I - by Thorstein Veblen

Free Community Seminar Series

May 22, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Pythagoras and Geometry continued

May 19, 2019

Responsibility and Judgement
(selections) by Hannah Arendt

Free Public Presentation

May 18, 2019
Adventurous Listening -
A Prelude to the Ojai Music Festival

May 18, 2019

Adventures in Listening:
New Music Since 1899

Free Community Seminar Series
May 16, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic
Plessy v. Ferguson and Dissenting View

Free Community Seminar Series

May 8, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Pythagoras and Geometry

Free Community Seminar Series

May 2, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Free Community Seminar Series

April 24, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Democritus on Nature

April 20, 2019
Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, by Nietzsche

Free Community Seminar Series

April 18, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

Dred Scott vs. Sanford
1857 Supreme Court Case

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Italian Movie Night

Cinema Paradiso

Sunday, April 14, 2019
The Miser by Molière
Seminar and Play Performance

Free Community Seminar Series

April 10, 2019

Early Greek Philosophy

Empedocles on Nature

April 6, 2019

One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez

Free Community Seminar Series

April 4, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendments 22-27

March 30, 2019

Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Not If... But When
Preparing for the Next Wildland Fire

Special Anniversary Celebration

March 23, 2019
The Spirit of Russia Through Story
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Free Community Seminar Series

March 21, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendments 15-21

Free Community Seminar Series

March 7, 2019

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendment 14 revisited

March 2, 2019

The Dead by James Joyce
Short Story and Film Presentation

February 23, 2019
The Book of Ecclesiastes

January 26, 2019
Structural Anthropology - Part One
by Claude Levi-Strauss

2018

Free Community Seminar Series

December 20, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendments 11-14

December 8, 2018

Series - The Feminine - Part II
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Revelation by Flannery O'Connor

Free Community Seminar Series

December 6, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendments
5-10

December 1, 2018

The Book of Genesis
Chapters 1-25

November 18, 2018

The Lady with the Dog

by Anton Chekhov
Short Story and Film Presentation

Free Community Seminar Series

November 15, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Amendments
1-4

November 3, 2018

The Analects of Confucius (selections)

Free Community Seminar Series

November 1, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Articles Five, Six, Seven, and Amendment I

Free Community Seminar Series

October 18, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Articles Two, Three, and Four

October 13, 2018
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Free Community Seminar Series

October 4, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Constitution - Article One

September 30, 2018

Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Water: Part III
What's Changing and What Might
Still Need to Change

September 22, 2018
Series - The Feminine

The Franklin's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, and the Introduction and Conclusion from The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir

Free Community Seminar Series

September 20, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Papers 70, 78, 85

September 9, 2018

Don Quixote and Man of La Mancha Seminar and Play Performance

Free Community Seminar Series

September 6, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Papers 68 and 69

Free Community Seminar Series

August 30, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Papers 52 and 62

August 19, 2018

Three Days in the Country

Seminar and Play Performance

Free Community Seminar Series

August 16, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Paper 51

July 31-August 3, 2018

Four-Day Summer Intensive
Humanity's Place in the Natural World

Panel - Stewardship in the Ojai Valley
August 2, 2018

Free Community Seminar Series

July 19, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Paper 10 continued

Summer Pop-Up EventJuly 8, 2018

33 Variations

Play Performance and Post-Show

Gathering with the Director

Free Community Seminar Series

July 5, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Paper 10

Free Community Seminar Series
June 21, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic
The Federalist Papers 6 and 9

Free Community Seminar Series

June 7, 2018

The Foundations of Our Republic

The Federalist Papers I and II

May 19, 2018
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Free Community Seminar Series
May 17, 2018
The Foundations of Our Republic
The Declaration of Independence, Part II

Free Community Seminar Series

May 3, 2018

The Foundations of Our RepublicThe Declaration of Independence, Part I

April 21, 2018
Double Header Event
The Aeneid by Virgil and
Selected Federalist Papers

April 15, 2018
Ojai Chautauqua Panel
Water: Part II

March 24, 2018
Aristotle on Friendship

March 18, 2018
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Seminar and Play Performance

February 24, 2018
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

February 17, 2018

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

Beyond the Whistle-Blowers: What comes next? Power, Gender, and Writing New Rules for the American Workplace

February 10, 2018
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

January 20, 2018

Can Machines Think? Computing and Intelligence by Alan Turing

2017

November 19, 2017

The Ojai Chautauqua Panel

Tourism in the Ojai Valley

November 18, 2017

Continuing Series on Happiness

Kringelbach and Berridge - The Neurobiology of Pleasure and Happiness and, Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works (selections)

October 20, 2017

The Ojai Chautauqua Panel

An Evening with Dan Schnur and Warren Olney

October 14, 2017

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

September 23, 2017

Hans Jonas Mortality and Morality:

A Search for Good After Auschwitz - Part I

August 26, 2017

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Seminar and Play Performance

June 17, 2017

Kristin Lavransdatter III - The Cross by Sigrid Undset

June 3, 2017

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

Politics, Media, and Society

May 7, 2017

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

Seminar and Play Performance

May 6, 2017

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

An Unconventional Presidency - Donald Trump’s First One Hundred Days in Office

April 1, 2017

Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason

March 18, 2017

Reason in History by Hegel

February 4, 2017

The Future of an Illusion

by Sigmund Freud

January 7, 2017

Selections from The Quran and

The Life of Muhammad

 

2016

December 10, 2016

Kristin Lavransdatter, Part II - The Wife by Sigrid Undset

October 8, 2016

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

The 2016 Election - Part II

What Happens Next?

September 24, 2016

Spinoza - The Separation of Church and State

September 17, 2016

Ojai Chautauqua Panel

The 2016 Presidential Election Part I - How Did We Get Here?

September 10, 2016

Continuing Series On Happiness

Augustine - City of God (selections)

June 5, 2016

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen

Seminar and play performance

April 16, 2016

Continuing Series on Happiness - Aristotle, selections from Nicomachean Ethics

March 19, 2016

Art and the Public Sphere

Rousseau and Aristophanes

February 13, 2016

On the Concept of Sin

Piper and Thomas Aquinas

January 30, 2016

Continuing Series on Happiness -

Seneca, Of a Happy Life

2015

November 21, 2015
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek

November 1, 2015
Uncle Vanya by Chekhov
Seminar and play performance

September 26, 2015
Beginning Series on Happiness
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and
two essays by Schopenhauer

June 27, 2015

The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

May 9, 2015

Love

Plato, Symposium

Shakespeare, Othello

April 11, 2015

The Wisdom of Genesis

Genesis, Chapters 1-3,
St. Augustine, Commentary on Genesis

March 14, 2015

On the Right Side of History

Heidegger, Reunion Speech

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address

Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration

February 21, 2015

On the Soul

Aristotle, On the Soul (selections),

and Leon Kass, NEH Lecture

January 31, 2015

Law and Conscience

Sophocles, Antigone,
Plato, Crito
Speeches from Lincoln and Jefferson

2014

December 13, 2014

What is Charity?

Selections from Aristotle, Frost, O. Henry, Chekhov, the New Testament, and many more.

November 22, 2014

Short Stories of Willa Cather

Paul's Case, Neighbor Rosicky,

and Two Friends.

October 11, 2014

What is Life?

Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life?

Charles de Koninck, Is the Word “Life” Meaningful?

September 27, 2014
The Origin of Knowledge

Plato, Meno

Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (selections)

Descartes, Discourse on Method (selections)

August 30, 2014

Kristin Lavransdatter, Part I - The Wreath

by Sigrid Undset

June 14, 2014
Selections from The Book of Psalms

May 24, 2014
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich
Nietzsche- Parts 1 and 2

April 12, 2014
An Inquiry on Contemporary Music

March 15, 2014
Selections from The Upanishads

February 22, 2014

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber

January 18, 2014

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

2013

December 14, 2013

Emily Dickinson - Selections

November 16, 2013

Russian Short Stories V

An Honest Thief by Dostoyevsky,

God Sees the Truth But Waits, and The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, and The Darling by Chekov

October 5, 2013

The Phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas - Part II Sixth Essay: The Nobility of Sight, plus the Appendix: Sight and Movement; and Seventh Essay: Image-making and the Freedom of Man

September 14, 2013

Emma by Jane Austen

April 27, 2013

Liberal Education and Its Critics

What is Liberal Education? and Liberal Education and Responsibility from Liberalism Ancient and Modern by Leo Strauss. Challenge to Liberal Thought by John Dewey and Education as Socialization and Individualization by Richard Rorty

March 9, 2013

The Bhagavad Gita and Our Demand and Need from the Gita by Sri Aurobindo

February 9, 2013

The Iliad by Homer

January 26, 2013

The Nature of Art

Plotinus, Ennead I.6, On Beauty and Search for the Real by Hans Hofmann

2012

December 8, 2012

The Phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas - selections: Introduction - On the Subjects
of a Philosophy of Life; Third Essay - Is God a Mathematician? The Meaning of Metabolism; Fifth Essay - Cybernetics and Purpose: A Critique

October 20, 2012

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts III, IV

September 22, 2012
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Parts I and II

May 19, 2012
The Book of Revelation

April 28, 2012

The Birth of Modern Theater

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen and The Seagull by Chekhov

March 31, 2012

Democracy in America (selections)
by Alexis de Tocqueville

February 25, 2012

Utopia by Thomas More

January 21, 2012
Contemporary Issues II -
The Phenomenon of Life
Two essays from Hans Jonas - The Burden and Blessing of Mortality and Toward a Philosophy of Technology

2011

December 10, 2011
Why Should We Believe: Is Religious Faith Reasonable?
Selections of texts from Thomas Aquinas.

November 19, 2011

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

October 8, 2011

A Free Economy: A Source of Wealth or Misery?Selections from The Wealth of Nations by

Adam Smith and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

September 10, 2011

Acting Rightly: Should We Trust Our Conscience?

Selections from Thomas Aquinas and Thomas More

May 7, 2011

Does God Make Sense?

Selections from Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologiae & selections from Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

April 9, 2011

The Path of the Law

Selections from Thomas Aquinas - Treatise on Law & Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Path of the Law

March 19, 2011
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

February 26, 2011
Aristotle on Sensation and the Soul

January 22, 2011

Between Life and Death

Henry James - The Beast in the Jungle, & The Alter of the Dead, James Joyce - The Dead

2010

November 13, 2010

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

October 23, 2010

The Soul

Aristotle, Bk. I, ch. 7 of the Physics Aristotle,Bk. II, ch. 1 of the De Anima

September 25, 2010

The Origin, Significance, and Wisdom of the Constitution - Part III - The Dred Scott Decision (edited) - The Seventh Lincoln Douglass Debate (edited)

July 31 - August 1, 2010

Special Event - The Winter's Tale

April 17-18, 2010
Contemporary Issues series
Man and the Environment

March 19-20, 2010
Contemporary Issues series
Frankenstein and the Ethics of Biotechnology

January 23, 2010
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

2009

November 7, 2009
G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

October 17, 2009

Series - The Origin, Significance, and Wisdom of the Constitution - Part II

John Locke - Second Treatise of

Government (selections)

The Declaration of Independence

& The Constitution

September 12, 2009

Cervantes - Don Quixote

June 13 & 14, 2009

Ovid's Metamorphoses

June 6, 2009

Nature and Beyond

Pre-Socratic philosophers, Selections - The Portrait, Gogol

A Doll’s House, Ibsen

May 9, 2009

Heroic Women

Sigrid Undset, Gunnar's Daughter

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

March 28 & 29, 2009

Two Dialogues of Plato

Symposium and Phaedrus

February 7, 2009

Seminar Series - The Origin, Significance,

and Wisdom of the Constitution

Aristotle, Politics (selections)

January 17, 2009

Milton, Paradise Lost

2008

November 15, 2008

Tragic Rulers - William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, Macbeth

October 4 & 5, 2008

Human Being and History

Hegel, Introduction to The Philosophy of History

Heidegger, essays: The Question Concerning Technology and The Turning

September 6, 2008

The Qur'an

June 14, 2008

The Problem of Evil

Elie Wiesel, Night

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

May 24, 2008
Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

April 26, 2008
Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents

March 15, 2008

Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky

February 16, 2008

Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard

January 19, 2008
Flannery O'Connor
The Lame Shall Enter First ,
A Good Man is Hard to Find, &
The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Rousseau, The Social Contract and Declaration of Independence and
The Federalist Papers (1, 10, 51)

2007

November 9 & 10, 2007

A Weekend with Eva Brann

Lecture on November 9:

Aeschylus Eumenides : Modernity and Patriotism - held at Thomas Aquinas College

Aeschylus - The Persians

Thucydides - Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War

October 6, 2007

A Day on T . S. Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral

The Waste Land

September 15, 2007

Continuing Theme on Ethics

Sophocles - Antigone

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Lecture: Two Paradigms of Ethical Reflection by Mike McLean, Ph.D, Thomas Aquinas College

March 10, 2007

Continuing Theme on Ethics

Machiavelli - The Prince

February 9 & 10, 2007

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics, Books I-III

January 13 & 14, 2007

A Weekend on Borges
The Circular Ruins, Ragnarök, The Maker, The Aleph, Borges and I, August 25-1983, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Witness, Everything and Nothing

2006

November 11 & 12, 2006

Approaches to God

St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae, Part One, Chpt 13 - Articles 1-6, and 12 Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, Part One, Chpt 50-60

October 20 & 21, 2006

Russian Short Stories IV

Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Dostoevsky, The Gentle Creature

This seminar weekend will kick off with a dinner gathering on Friday night, beginning at 5:00pm, followed by a performance of the Valamm Ensemble from Russia, held at Thomas Aquinas College

Fundamental Seminars Program

September 23 & 24, 2006
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook

March 17 & 18, 2006

Liberty II

Ongoing series on Liberty, examining different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order. Thomas Aquinas - selections - Treatise on Law

February 11 & 12, 2006

Phenomenology III

Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology.

Heidegger - further selections from Being and Time

January 7 & 8, 2006

A Weekend on James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2005

December 17 & 18, 2005

Russian Short Stories III

Tolstoy, Father Sergius

Gogol, The Portrait

Chekhov, The Bet

November 12, 2005

Liberty I

The first in an ongoing series on Liberty. This series will examine different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order.

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

October 1 & 2, 2005

Phenomenology II

Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology. Heidegger - selections from Being and Time

August 27 & 28, 2005

The Nature of Greek Tragedy

Aristotle, Poetics (chapters 1-18)

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

(chapters 1-15)

Euripides, Hippolytus (entire play)

June 4, 2005

The Divine Comedy III

Dante, Paradise

April 23 & 24, 2005
Beginning Series on Phenomenology
Selections from The Essential Husserl

March 19, 2005
The Passion of Christ
Film: The Passion of the Christ
The Gospel of Luke - entire work
The Gospel of John - Chapter 2, versus 1-11, and Chapters 13-19
The Gospel of Mathew - Chapters 26-27

January 15, 2005
Toni Morrison, Beloved

2004

December 4, 2004
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Purgatory

October 16, 2004
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Inferno

September 25, 2004
Tolstoy, War and Peace

June 12 & 13, 2004
Special Event
A Weekend on Music
Man the Musician (selections)
by Victor Zuckerkandl &
Thinking About Music (selections)
by Lewis Rowell
Music selections include:
Josquin Desprez · Kyrie
Wolfgang Mozart · Menuetto, K. 355, Elliott Carter · Poems by Frost, Bishop, etc. set to music

May 1 & 2, 2004
Faust
Christopher Marlowe:
Dr. Faustus - (A-Text version only)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Faust I - (complete)
Faust II - (acts IV and V)

March 19 & 20, 2004
The American Novel
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Willa Cather, My Antonia

February 20 & 21, 2004
The Book of Job

January 17, 2004
James Joyce, Dubliners

2003

November 22 & 23, 2003
Transgression, Punishment, and Mercy - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Measure for Measure
The Winter's Tale

October 11 & 12, 2003
Russian Short Stories II
Tolstoy , The Devil
Chekov , The Black Monk
Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

September 6 & 7, 2003
The Gospel According to John

May 23 & 24, 2003
When is War Justified
Aquinas, On War, and On Murder
Wendell Berry, The Failure of War
James Sterba, Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists

April 25 & 26, 2003
Is Lying Justifiable
Twain, Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
Aquinas, On Lying
Kant, On the Supposed Right to Lie

March 1 & 2, 2003
Satire and the Human Condition
Swift, Gulliver's Travels

January 17 & 18, 2003
Is Religious Belief Reasonable
Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 1
Lewis, MereChristianity, Book 2

2002

December 13 & 14, 2002
Justice and the Political Order Continued - Plato, Republic VI-X

One-Day Intensive
October 12, 2002

The Nature of Sensation
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book Two
(sections 5, 6, 7, & 12 only)
Lecture: "Are Sensible Qualities Real?" - by Dr. Christopher Decaen
Dinner and Reception follow

November 23 & 24, 2002
Justice and the Political Order
Plato, The Republic I-V

September 6 & 7, 2002
Vengeance and Justice
Aeschylus, The Oresteia

June 28 & 29, 2002
The Nature of Comedy
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Chaucer, The Miller's Tale &
The Reeve's Tale
Essays from Bergson, Goldsmith, & Hazlitt

One-Day Intensive
May 11, 2002

Aristotle, On the Soul
Book One Chapters 1-5,
Book Two Chapters 1-2
Lecture: "Thomistic Biology as an Antidote to the Reductionism of Modern Science" - by Dr. William Carroll of Cornell College, Iowa
Dinner and Reception follow

One-Day Intensive
March 23, 2002

Aristotle, On Nature and Causality
Book Two, Chapters 1, 3
Book Two, Chapters 4-6, 8
Lecture: "Natures Act for an End"
by Dr. Robert Augros of
St. Anselm College, New Hampshire
Dinner and Reception follow

February 23 & 24, 2002
Aristotle, On Nature
Book One, Chapters 1, 5-6
Book One, Chapter 7
Book One, Chapters 8-9

January 19 & 20, 2002
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook

2001

December 14 &15, 2001
Existentialism
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Sartre, No Exit and The Flies
Camus, The Stranger

November 17 & 18, 2001
Russian Short Stories
Gogol, The Nose, The Overcoat, The Calash
Chekhov, The Kiss, Gooseberries, The Bishop
Tolstoy, Master and Man

September 22 & 23, 2001
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

July 6 & 7, 2001
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

June 2 & 3, 2001
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

March 16 & 17, 2001
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (On Friendship)
Bk. VIII, Chpt 1-8
Bk. VIII, Chpt 9 – Bk. IX, Chpt 3
Bk. IX, Chapters 4-12

January 20 & 21, 2001
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
C. S. Lewis, Four Loves
Shakespeare, Othello

2000

December 15 & 16, 2000
Plato and Aristophanes
Plato, Protagoras
Aristophanes, The Clouds

November 17 & 18, 2000
Descartes, Meditations Concerning First Philosophy

September 22 & 23, 2000
The Nature of Poetry
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1-6
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 7-15
Euripides, Hippolytus

July 8 & 9, 2000
Aristotle, Ethics I-III

June 16 & 17, 2000
Tyranny and Justice
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship and Summa Theologiae (selections)
Machiavelli, The Prince

March 17 & 18, 2000
The Short Story
Flaubert, A Simple Heart and
St. Jullian Hospitalier
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Enduring Chill

January 28 & 29, 2000
Augustine, The Confessions

1999

November 13 & 14, 1999
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

September 24 & 25, 1999
The Political Order
Aristotle, Politics (selections)
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Declaration of Independence and
The Federalist Papers (1, 10, 51)

June 18 & 19, 1999
Faith and Reason
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
St. Paul, Letter to the Galatians
Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians

April 23 & 24, 1999
The Origin of Knowledge
Plato, Meno
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
Descartes, Discourse on Method

March 12 & 13, 1999
Law and Conscience
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, Apology and Crito
Lincoln, selections

January 29 & 30, 1999
Human Action
The Holy Bible, Genesis, Chpt 1-25
Pre-Socratics and Epicurus
Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis

1998

December 4 & 5, 1998
Love
Plato, Symposium
C. S. Lewis, Four Loves
Shakespeare, Othello

November 13 & 14, 1998
Does God Exist?
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ques. 2

September 25 & 26, 1998

Morality and Human Action
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
St. Thomas Aquinas, On Homicide

 

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