Intensive Forums
These forums, built for the various Intensive participants, are for sharing ideas, links, videos, writing, and more.
Finnegans Wake
Post questions, links, media, etc.
23Decline and Fall of Rome
Here is a resource to post media, links, and questions regarding the Edward Gibbon text.
47The Archetypes by Jung
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
4Moby Dick Online Intensive
A recourse for questions, link, media posts, and more
11American History - Section 3
2022 Intensive - Wednesday Evenings - April 20 to November 16
141Hero with 1,000 Faces
Online Intensive - Tuesday Afternoons, 12:00-1:30PM PDT - April 19 to June 14, 2022
9The Tao
Online Intensive - April 21 - June 9, 2022
8Wittgenstein - Intensive
Selections from Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein - Thursday evenings 5:30-7:30PM - January 6 - 27
7Greek Philosophy
Fall 2021 Intensive - Thursday Evenings - September 16 - December 16
3Brothers Karamazov
Fall 2021 Online Intensive - Every other Wednesday Afternoon - September 29, 2021 to April 6, 2022
11The Century Cycle
Winter 2021 - 2022 Online Intensive - Thursday Afternoons - December 16 to February 17
5Nicomachean Ethics
Fall 2021 Online Intensive - Tuesday Afternoons - September 14 to November 16
5Republic of Plato
Tuesday afternoons, May 4 - July 13, 2021
5Greek Gods & Epics
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings (two cohorts), October 22, 2020 - February 25, 2021
27Greek Tragedy & Comedy
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings (two cohorts), March 4 - June 8, 2021
12Greek History - Parts 1 and 2
Part One: The Ancient City and Herodotus - The Ways of the Greeks; and Part Two: Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
15Epistemology
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?
18Don Quixote by Cervantes
Online Intensive - Thursday afternoons 12:30-2:00PM Pacific. January 12 - May 25, 2023
9Multiple Series on Shakespeare
Post videos, articles, links, etc.
10Andy Gilman Writing and Art
Please email Andy Gilman, Director of the Agora Foundation, at greatbooksojai@gmail.com with questions or comments.
11Varieties Religious Experiece
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - Online seminar series, taking place once per month
5The Old Testament / Torah
A Forum for commentary links, media, and questions.
45The Glory of Art
Semi-Monthly Online Free Community Series
3MIddlemarch by George Eliot
Online Intensive Resource
9US Supreme Court
Decisions and Interpretations
5The Laws of Plato
A resource to post media, questions, links, etc.
2The Romantic I/Eye
A pan-European and American phenomenon, Romanticism influenced Western notions about the individual anf nature.
4Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wednesday Evenings - Jan 24 to Apr 17, 2024
4Paradise Lost
Use this resource to post media, questions, links, etc. Enjoy!
5Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Use this resource for media, links, and questions outside of the online series.
2Plato on Love and Language
Use this forum to post questions, media, links, etc. and carry on the conversation after the seminar.
3The Tale of Genji
Use this forum to post media, links, and questions outside of the seminar series.
17Lincoln Douglas Debates
Use this forum to post media, links, and questions to supplement the online seminars.
2War and Peace
Use this forum to post questions, media, links, etc. outside of the seminar.
13The Carmelite Tradition
Drinking from The Fount: Divine Union in the Carmelite Tradition - Use this resource to post links, questions, etc.
1Poetry - Monday Night Group
This forum will contain upcoming poetry readings, and can be used to post links, media, etc.
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