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Upcoming Online Events
The Agora Foundation is a nonsectarian 501(c)3 non-profit endeavor, providing great books seminars and other educational opportunities to those who are busy with careers, families, and daily responsibilities yet are seeking to further their education. The goal of these offerings is to provide an understanding of the ideas that shape civilizations and to promote civil discourse on complicated subjects.
Generously funded by The Ahmanson Foundation, Southern California Edison, The Shanbrom Family Foundation, the Ventura County Community Foundation, the WRG Foundation, the Constance Eaton and William Hart Fund, the Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Ojai, and private donations, the Teachers for Lifelong Learning Program provides training to high school teachers in this engaging approach to learning, and The Ojai Chautauqua provides panels promoting civil discourse on controversial and complicated subjects.
Upcoming Regular Events
Online Free Community
Seminar Series
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Jung
Monday, May 23
5:30-6:30PM PDT
Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies
Reading:
Rereading Psychological Aspects of the
Child Archetype
Schedule:
5:30-6:30PM PDT
Tutor:
Andy Gilman
Online Format:
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Online Seminar Series
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
Saturday, May 28
12:00-2:00PM PDT
In this short work, Kant offers a foundation for a theory of ethics based on the values of freedom and autonomy and how they relate to an Enlightenment conception of persons as rational
Reading:
Section Two - Second Half
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Anthony Beavers
Online Format:
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POSTPONED -
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Meditations by Descartes continued
Sunday, May 29
12:00-2:00PM PDT
What can we say we know with certainty? What does it mean to say that we know something? How do we know that we know?
Reading:
Fourth and Fifth Meditations, and selected Objections and Replies
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Carol Seferi
Online Format:
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View the November 14, 2020 Online Special Music Event
From Lugubrious to Luminous: Words about Music
(and where they take us!)
View the May 28, 2020 Ojai Chautauqua Panel - The Future of Education After COVID-19.
An Introduction to The Agora Foundation. What is liberal education?
An Introduction to The Agora Foundation's Ojai Chautauqua Panels.