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2025
June 14, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Five - Part Three - Chapters I-XIX - pages 1031-1074
June 12, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Pascal - Pensées - The Memorial, Sections 1-48, 68-118
June 11, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 363-368
June 7, 2025
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 9: Section 19 - Woundings, Section 20 - Assault, Section 21 - Religion
June 5, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Five - Part Two - Chapters I-XIX - pages 987-1030
Free Onsite Community Seminar
June 3, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 33
May 31, 2025
Online Seminar Series
American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Jonesboro Debate (September 15, 1858)
May 29, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Four - Part One - Chapters I-XVI - pages 935-986
May 28, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Contemporary Selections
May 28, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 358-363
Free Onsite Community Seminar
May 27, 2025
The Poetry of Rumi - Who Says Words with My Mouth?
May 22, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Three - Part Three - Chapters XX-XXXIV - pages 874-932
May 21, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur
Free Onsite Community Seminar
May 20, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 32
May 17, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - House Divided Speech
May 15, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Three - Part Three - Chapters I-XIX - pages 821-874
May 15, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Section 12, A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh, and An Abstract
May 14, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Robert Frost and Rainer Maria Rilke
May 14, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 353-358
Free Onsite Community Seminar
May 13, 2025
The Poetry of Mary Oliver - How Would you Live Then?
May 10, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger
Chapter 1 - The Physical Basis of Consciousness
May 8, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Three - Part Two - Chapters XIX-XXXIX - pages 753-820
May 7, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from William Butler Yeats and Wallace Stevens
Free Onsite Community Seminar
May 6, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 31
May 5, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Transcendentalism -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Verses 8-16)
May 1, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Three - Part Two - Chapters I-XVIII - pages 682-753
May 1, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 10 and 11
April 30, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
April 30, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 348-353
April 26, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Lincoln's Words, American's Principles - Lyceum Address, Temperance Address
April 24, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Three - Part One - Chapter I-XXIII - pages 603-681
April 23, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats
April 17, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Two - Part Five - Chapters I-XXII pages 535-600
April 17, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 8 and 9
April 16, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert
2024
December 22, 2024
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Part Five - The Last Mile, The Hunger Winter
December 21, 2024
Online Seminar Series
What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
Chapter 5 - Delbrück’s Model Discussed and Tested
December 19, 2024
Online Intensive
Daniel Deronda
Book 5 - Mordecai
Chapters 41-44
December 19, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Preface and start of first dialogue (pp. 2-23
December 18, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 53-54
December 18, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 309-314
Free Onsite Community Seminar
December 17, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 22
December 15, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both
Two Noble Kinsmen
December 14, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Romantic I/Eye
Emerson - Experience
December 12, 2024
Online Intensive
Daniel Deronda
Book 5 - Mordecai
Chapters 37-40
December 11, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 51-52
Free Community Onsite Seminar Series
December 10, 2024
The Glory of Art - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
December 9, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Transcendentalism -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Chapters 6-14 - Visitors... Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
December 8, 2024
Online Seminar Series
What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -
Volume 2: Part 2
Chapter 10 - On the Taste for Material Well-Being in America,
Chapter 11 - On the Particular Effects that the Love of Material Enjoyments Produces in Democratic Countries, Chapter 15 - How Religious Beliefs at Times Turn the Souls of Americans toward Immaterial Enjoyments, Chapter 17 - How in Times of Equality and Doubt It Is Important to Move Back the Object of Human Actions
December 7, 2024
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 7 - Section 12 - Education
December 5, 2024
Online Intensive
Daniel Deronda
Book 5 - Mordecai
Chapters 35-36
December 4, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 49-50
Free Onsite Community Seminar
December 3, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 21
November 27, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 47-48
November 23, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 5. Realms of the Soil, 6. Earth's Green Mantle, 7. Needless Havoc
November 21, 2024
Online Intensive
Daniel Deronda
Book 4 - Gwendolen Gets Her Choice
Chapters 31-34
November 20, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 44-46
November 20, 2024
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Ten - pages 302-309
Free Onsite Community Seminar
November 19, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 20
November 16, 2024
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - Part Five - Through the Looking Glass - So, We's the Same; The First Derivative of Identity
November 14, 2024
Online Intensive
Daniel Deronda
Book 4 - Gwendolen Gets Her Choice
Chapters 28-30
November 13, 2024
Online Intensive
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Chapters 39-43
November 10, 2024
Online Seminar Series
What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville - Volume 2: Part 1 -
Chapter 1 - On the Philosophical Method of the Americans, Chapter 2 - Of the Principal Source of Belief among Democratic Nations, Chapter 5 - How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts, Chapter 10 - Why the Americans Apply Themselves to the Practice of the Sciences Rather than to the Theory,
Volume 2: Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Lasting Love for Equality than Freedom, Chapter 2 - On Individualism in Democratic Countries, Chapter 5 - On the Use that Americans Make of Association in Civil Life, Chapter 8 - How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood,
Chapter 9 - How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion
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
2025 (continued)
Free Onsite Community Seminar
April 15, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 30
April 10, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Two - Part Four - Chapters I-XII - pages 488-534
April 9, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selected Sonnets from William Shakespeare
Free Onsite Community Seminar
April 8, 2025
The Poetry of Mary Oliver - The Summer Day
April 7, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Transcendentalism -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Verses 1-7)
April 5, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both
King Lear
April 3, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Two - Part Three - Chapters I-XXVI - pages 418-487
April 2, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Petrarch,
Dante, Wyatt, and Surrey
April 2, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 343-348
Free Onsite Community Seminar
April 1, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 29
March 29, 2025
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 9 - Section 16 - Capital Offenses, Section 17 - The Theory of Punishment, Section 18, Homicide Law
March 27, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Two - Part Two - Chapters I-XXI - pages 347-417
March 26, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selections from Sappho, Horace, Medieval lyrics
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 25, 2025
Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 17 - end
March 22, 2025
Online Seminar Series
American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport Debate (August 27, 1858)
March 20, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume Two - Part One - Chapters I-XVI - pages 297-346
March 20, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 5 to 7
March 19, 2025
Online Intensive
Lyric Poetry: Nature, Love, and Death - Selected Psalms, Homeric Hymn to Apollo
March 19, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 339-343
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 18, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 28
March 16, 2025
Onsite Seminar and Play Performance
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare at Antaeus Theatre
March 15, 2025
Online Seminar Series
What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
Chapter 7 - Is Life Based on the Laws and Physics? and Epilogue - Determinism and Free Will
March 13, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part Three - Chapters VIII - pages 244-294
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 11, 2025
The Poetry of Mary Oliver - In Blackwater Woods
March 8, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 10. Indiscriminately from the Skies, 11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias, 12. The Human Price
March 6, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part Three - Chapters I-VII - pages 201-244
March 6, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology of Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Sections 1 to 4
March 5, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 337-339
Free Onsite Community Seminar
March 4, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 27
March 1, 2025
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Part Six - Post-Genome
February 27, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part Two - Chapters XI - pages 158-200
Free Onsite Community Seminar
February 25, 2025
Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 11 - 16 (pages 70-111)
February 22, 2025
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 8 - Sections 13-15: Sports and Military Training, Problems of Sexual Conduct, Agriculture, Economics and Trade
February 13, 2025
Online Intensive
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part Two - Chapters I-X - pages 112-158
February 19, 2025
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 331-337
Free Onsite Community Seminar
February 18, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 26
2024 (continued)
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 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
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
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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Eight
May 9, 2024
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Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part II continued
May 8, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 236-241
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February 16, 2025
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What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -
Chapter 1 - Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions
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Chapter 4 - On Some Particular and Accidental Causes That Serve to Bring a Democratic People to Centralize Power or Turn It Away from That
Chapter 6 - What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear
Chapter 7 - Continuation of the Preceding Chapters
Chapter 8 - General View of the Subject
February 15, 2025
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Shakespeare in Britain and Greece: Comic, Tragic, Both
Troilus and Cressida
February 13, 2025
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part One - Chapters XIV-XXV - pages 56-111
February 13, 2025
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Epistemology of Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Third dialogue
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February 11, 2025
The Poetry of Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
February 8, 2025
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The Romantic I/Eye
Poe - The Landscape Garden, William Wilson, and The Fall of the House of Usher
February 6, 2025
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Volume One - Part One - Chapter I-XIII - pages 3-56
February 5, 2025
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 326-331
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February 4, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 25
Special Onsite Seminar and Panel Event
February 1, 2025
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold - Co-hosting by the Agora Foundation and the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy
January 30, 2025
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Daniel Deronda
Book 8 - Fruit and Seed
Chapters 64-70
January 30, 2025
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Epistemology of Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - Second dialogue
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January 28, 2025
Modern Heroine Autobiographies - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Chapters 1-10 (pages 1-70)
January 25, 2025
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What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
Chapter 6 - Order, Disorder and Entropy
January 23, 2025
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Daniel Deronda
Book 8 - Fruit and Seed
Chapters 58-63
January 22, 2025
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 320-326
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January 21, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 24
January 16, 2025
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Daniel Deronda
Book 7 - The Mother and the Son
Chapters 53-57
January 12, 2025
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What About Democracy is Worth Saving? - Selections from Alexis de Tocqueville -
Volume 2: Part 2
Chapter 18 - Why Among the Americans All Honest Professions Are Reputed Honorable,
Chapter 19 - What Makes Almost All Americans Incline Toward Industrial Professions,
Chapter 20 - How Aristocracy Could Issue from Industry,
Volume 2: Part 3
Chapter 18 - On Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies,
Chapter 19 - Why One Finds So Many Ambitious Men in the United States and So Few Great Ambitions,
Chapter 20 - On the Industry of Place-Hunting in Certain Democratic Nations
January 11, 2025
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American Rhetoric: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Ottawa Debate (August 21, 1858)
January 9, 2025
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Book 7 - The Mother and the Son
Chapters 50-52
January 8, 2025
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Eleven - pages 314-320
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January 7, 2025
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 23
January 6, 2025
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Transcendentalism -
Conclusion of Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
January 4, 2025
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - 8. And No Birds Sing, 9. Rivers of Death
January 9, 2025
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Book 6 - Revelations
Chapters 45-49
January 2, 2025
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Epistemology of Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous - End of first dialogue (pp. 24-42)
2024 (continued)
May 7, 2024
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Book of Numbers - Bamidbar
Chapters 1:1-4:20
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May 7, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 5
May 5, 2024
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Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. United States 2024 Presidential Immunity Case
May 5, 2024
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Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - Othello
May 4, 2024
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Ten - The Classless Society
April 25, 2024
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Paradise Lost - Book Twelve
by John Milton
April 25, 2024
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Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part II
April 21, 2024
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The Laws of Plato
Book 3 - Sections 4-5: The Lessons of History
April 20, 2024
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The Romantic I/Eye
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Foscolo
April 18, 2024
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Paradise Lost - Book Eleven
by John Milton
April 17, 2024
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Epilogue
April 17, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 231-236
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April 16, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 4
April 14, 2024
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The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters XVII - The Burden of Royalty, XVIII - The Perils of the Soul
April 13, 2024
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Sixteen and Seventeen - Mysticism
April 11, 2024
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Paradise Lost - Book Ten
by John Milton
April 11, 2024
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Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 16-36 and Appendix
April 10, 2024
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters V-VIII
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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
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Paradise Lost - Book Nine
by John Milton
April 3, 2024
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Six - Chapters I-IV
April 3, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 228-231
April 2, 2024
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Bechukotai - Chapters 26:3–27:34
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April 2, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 3
March 31, 2024
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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Seven
March 30, 2024
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The Work of Flannery O'Connor
Parker's Back and Aquinas on Idolatry - Question 94 - Article 2
March 28, 2024
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Paradise Lost - Book Eight
by John Milton
March 27, 2024
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters IV-V
March 26, 2024
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Behar - Chapters 25:1–26:2
March 24, 2024
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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
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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
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Five - Chapters I-III
March 20, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book Two - Chapter Nine - pages 222-228
March 19, 2024
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Emor -
Chapters 21:1–24:23
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March 19, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 2
March 17, 2024
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Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Merchant of Venice
March 16, 2024
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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
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Kedoshim - Chapters 19:1–20:27
March 10, 2024
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The Romantic I/Eye
Rene, and Atala by Chateaubriand
March 9, 2024
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Vitruvius on Architecture - Book II, On Dwellings and Substances
March 7, 2024
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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
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Acharei Mot - Chapters 16:1–18:30
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March 5, 2024
The Tao Te Ching - Verse 1
March 3, 2024
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Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Trump v. Anderson - Colorado Ballot 2024 Case
March 3, 2024
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The Laws of Plato
Book 2 - Section 3: The Arts in the Service of Education
March 2, 2024
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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
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Three - pages 247-292 - Chapters IV-VI
February 27, 2024
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Metzora - Chapters 14:1–15:33
February 25, 2024
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lectures Fourteen and Fifteen - The Value of Saintliness
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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
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Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15
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February 21, 2024
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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
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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
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Book of Leviticus - Parashat Shemini - Chapters - 9:1–11:47
February 10, 2024
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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Six
February 8, 2024
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Paradise Lost - Book One
by John Milton
February 8, 2024
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Epistemology of Spinoza
Ethics, Part I, Propositions 1-15
February 7, 2024
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part Two - pages 95-151 - Chapters I-IV
February 7, 2024
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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
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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
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Book of Leviticus -
Parashat Vayikra - Chapters 1:1–5:26
January 28, 2024
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Chapter Eight - Continental imperialism : the pan-movements
January 27, 2024
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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
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - Part One - pages 3-42 - Chapters I-III
January 24, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Eight - pages 196-200
January 21, 2024
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The Romantic I/Eye
Hyperion, or The Hermit of Greece by Holderlin
January 20, 2024
Online Free Community
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Vitruvius on Architecture - Book I, Chapters 1-3
January 17, 2024
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 190-195
January 14, 2024
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Supreme Court - Decisions and Interpretations - Chapters 5 and 6 - Privacy - and Rifle Association v. Bruen
2023
December 27, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 182-190)
December 19, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 81-86, Finale
December 17, 2023
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The Romantic I/Eye - Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Rousseau
December 14, 2023
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The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part II of II
December 13, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 178-182)
December 12, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 72-80
December 10, 2023
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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
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The Epic of Gilgamesh - Part I of II
December 5, 2023
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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
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 63-67
November 22, 2023
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Book of Exodus - Chapters 38:21 - 40:38
November 21, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 58-62
November 19, 2023
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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
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Book of Exodus - Chapters 35:1 - 38:20
November 15, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Seven - pages 166-173)
November 14, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 54-57
November 12, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 3 - Freedom of Religion (pages 60-88)
Also, Reynolds v. United States - 1878
November 11, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
November 8, 2023
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Book of Exodus - Chapters 30:11 - 34:35
November 7, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 49-53
November 5, 2023
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Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics
November 4, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Seven - Imperialism
November 1, 2023
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Book of Exodus - Chapters 27:20 - 30:10
November 1, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 160-166)
October 31, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 43-48
October 29, 2023
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The Romantic I/Eye - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
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October 27, 2023
Part of the Ojai Storytelling Festival - Story Saves the Day:
When Demonstration and Logic Fail, Story Heaves Up the Truth
October 25, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 25:1 - 27:19
October 24, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 38-42
October 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Five
October 21, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Epistles of Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
October 18, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 21:1 - 24:18
October 18, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 155-160)
October 17, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 34-37
October 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Chapter 2 - Freedom of Speech (pages 31-59)
Also, Miller v. California (1973)
October 11, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 18:1 - 20:23
October 10, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 28-33
October 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Leibniz - Excerpts from the Letters to Clarke and On Nature Itself
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October 7, 2023
The Glory of Art - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
October 4, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 13:17 - 17:16
October 3, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 23-27
September 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 151-155)
September 26, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 18-22
September 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 4 - Sections 13-14, Book 5, Conclusion of the Work
September 24, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Laws of Plato
Book 1 - Section 1: The Inadequacy of Spartan and Cretan Legislation
September 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Ten - Conversion, Concluded
September 20, 2023
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Book of Exodus - Chapters 6:2 - 9:35
September 19, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 13-17
September 17, 2023
Online Seminar Series
US Supreme Court—Decisions and Interpretations - Federalist Paper #78, Article III, US Constitution,
Judicial Power in the United States - De Tocqueville, Supreme Court Decisions—Chapter 1
(pages 1-11, 15-30) McCulloch v. Maryland, Marbury v. Madison, United States v. Nixon, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
September 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! - Romeo and Juliet
September 13, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 3:16 - 6:1
September 12, 2023
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
Chapters 7-12
September 10, 2023
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Leibniz - On the Ultimate Origination of Things and Preface to the New Essays
September 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Chapters IV - Magic and Religion,
V - The Magical Control of the Weather, VI - Magicians as Kings
September 6, 2023
Online Intensive
Book of Exodus - Chapters 1:1 - 3:15
September 6, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 145 - 151)
September 5, 2023
Online Intensive
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Prelude, Chapters 1-6
September 5, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 4 - Book 4 - Sections 1-12
Free Community Online Seminar Series
September 3, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 5-8
September 2, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 28, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - North by Northwest - 1959
August 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Six - Imperialism
August 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
August 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 143, Question 9 - 145 Question 10)
August 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Book 3 - Discovery of the True Homer
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 21, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Vertigo - 1958
August 20, 2023
Online Contemporary Issues Seminar Series
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Prologue, Part One - The Walled Garden, The Mystery of Mysteries, The Very Wide Blank, Flowers He Loved
August 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Four
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 14, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Dial M for Murder - 1954
2023 (continued)
Free Community Online Seminar Series
August 13, 2023
The Glory of Art - The Arts and Crafts of Today by William Morris
August 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 138-143, Question 8)
August 8, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Sections 6-11
Free Community Onsite Film Series
August 7, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Shadow of a Doubt - 1943
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 31, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Psycho - 1960
July 29, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Nine - Conversion
July 26, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 135 -138
July 25, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 5 of Book 2 - Poetic Politics
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 24, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The Lady Vanishes - 1938
July 23, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe! A Midsummer Night's Dream
July 22, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Golden Bough by Frazer - Preface, Chapters I - The King of the Wood, II - Priestly Kings, III - Sympathetic Magic
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 17, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The 39 Steps - 1935
July 16, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Natural Law - C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
July 15, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Five - Imperialism
July 12, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 132 -135
July 11, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Sections 3 and 4 of Book 2 - Poetic Morality and Poetic Economics, or Household Management
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 10, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Rear Window - 1954
July 9, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - End of the Essay and excerpts from The Stillingfleet Correspondence
July 8, 2023
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The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - Chapter Three
Free Community Onsite Film Series
July 3, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - Rope - 1948
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 2, 2023
The Glory of Art - Victor Zuckerkandl - Man the Musician - Two Chapters on The Meaning of Song
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 1, 2023
The Foundations of Our Republic - Federalist Papers Complete - 1-4
June 28, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Six - pages 128 -132
June 27, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 2 of Book 2 - Poetic Logic
Free Community Onsite Film Series
June 26, 2023
Hitchcock Monday Movie Nights - The Birds -1963
June 25, 2023
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On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
Jane Austin - Persuasion
June 24, 2023
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Lecture Eight - The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification
June 17, 2023
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Shakespearean Marriage, Italian-Style (Mostly) - & One by Marlowe!
Much Ado About Nothing
June 14, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico Section 3 and 4 of Book 1. Prolegomena, Introduction and Section 1 of Book 2
June 4, 2023
Online Seminar Series - Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Book IV Of Knowledge and Opinion (pages 274-322)
June 3, 2023
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Natural Law - Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas - Questions 98-108 (selections)
June 1, 2023
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Part Two - Chapters 67-74
May 31, 2023
Online Seminar Series
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book One - Chapter Five - page 124 to Chapter Six - page 128
May 30, 2023
Online Intensive
The Old Testament - Book of Genesis - 47:28–50:26
May 30, 2023
Online Seminar Series
New Science by Giambattista Vico - Section Two
May 28, 2023
Online Seminar Series
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chapter Four - Antisemitism
May 27, 2023
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May 17, 2023
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May 6, 2023
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May 3, 2023
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April 29, 2023
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April 27, 2023
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April 27, 2023
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April 25, 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 19, 2023
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April 17, 2023
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April 15, 2023
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April 13, 2023
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April 10, 2023
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April 5, 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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March 23, 2023
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March 22, 2023
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March 21, 2023
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March 20, 2023
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March 20, 2023
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March 19, 2023
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March 18, 2023
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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
The Glory of Art - Da VInci - The Universe - Water, Introduction to Painting
February 26, 2023
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February 25, 2023
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February 23, 2023
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February 23, 2023
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February 22, 2023
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February 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023
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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
The Glory of Art - Da VInci - True Science
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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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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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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January 26, 2023
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January 26, 2023
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January 25, 2023
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January 24, 2023
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January 23, 2023
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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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January 11, 2023
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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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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December 20, 2022
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December 18, 2022
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December 15, 2022
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December 12, 2022
A Study in the Process of Individuation - by Jung - Conclusion
December 11, 2022
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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
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November 30, 2022
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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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November 15, 2022
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November 14, 2022
A Study in the Process of Individuation - by Jung - Paragraphs 525-626
November 12, 2022
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November 10, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Five
November 9, 2022
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November 8, 2022
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November 7, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
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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November 1 2022
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Chapters 71-79
October 30, 2022
Online Seminar Series - Anguish and the Absurd - 1984, Part Three - Conclusion - by George Orwell
October 27, 2022
Greek History Intensive - Section One - Herodotus - Book Three
October 26, 2022
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Section Three - Dobbs v. Mississippi Supreme Court Decision
October 25, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapters 59-70
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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
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October 19, 2022
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October 18, 2022
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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
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Section Three - Boorstin - Language, Knowledge, and the Arts
October 11, 2022
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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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
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Section Three - Kendi - Angela Davis - Chapters 30-33
October 5, 2022
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October 4, 2022
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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
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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
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September 20, 2022
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Chapters 23-31
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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
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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
Online Seminar Series
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
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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
Online Seminar Series
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
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February 19, 2023
Online Seminar Series
On Reading Six Women Artists/Thinkers -
Personal Truths, Metaphors and the Public Sphere -
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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
Online Intensive
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
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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
Online Seminar Series
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
Online Seminar Series
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
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June 20, 2022
The Psychological Aspects of the Kore - Case Studies - Paragraphs 306-383
June 15, 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
June 12, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare and Plutarch: Roman Plays, Roman Lives - Titus Andronicus
June 11, 2022
Online Seminar Series
The New Testament - Gospel of Mark
June 9, 2022
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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
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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
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June 2, 2022
Online Intensive
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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
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May 30, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Chapter Two
May 28, 2022
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - Second half
May 26, 2022
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The Tao - Chuang Tzu - The Inner Chapters - Wandering Boundless and Free, A Little Talk About Evening Things Out
May 25, 2022
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Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
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May 24, 2022
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Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - Part II - Chapter II: The Virgin Birth
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May 23, 2022
Rereading The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305
May 22, 2022
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May 19, 2022
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May 18, 2022
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May 18, 2022
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May 17, 2022
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May 16, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Du Bois - The Souls of Folk - Forethought and Chapter One
May 15, 2022
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Introduction to Martin Heidegger
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May 14, 2022
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Anguish and the Absurd
Animal Farm by George Orwell
May 12, 2022
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May 11, 2022
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May 10, 2022
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Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter III: Return
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May 9, 2022
The Child Archetype by Jung - Paragraphs 259-305
May 7, 2022
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The New Testament - Gospel of Matthew
May 5, 2022
Online Intensive
The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 21-38
May 4, 2022
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Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Three - Lepore
The State - Of Citizens, Persons, and People
May 4, 2022
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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
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Hero with 1,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell - The Adventure of the Hero - Part I - Chapter II: Initiation
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May 2, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - The Broken Constitution - Introduction - Noah Feldman
May 1, 2022
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I and Thou - Part Four
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April 30, 2022
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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
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The Tao - Tao Te Ching -
Chapters 12-20
April 27, 2022
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Section Three - The Civil War to the 21st Century
Session Two - Kendi - Reconstructing Slavery and Reconstructing Blame
April 26, 2022
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April 25, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - A Set of Symbols Illustrating Transformation - Paragraphs 240-258
April 24, 2022
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Introduction to Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology
April 23, 2022
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Epistemology
Descartes - Meditation Three
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April 18, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln - First Inaugural Address
April 14, 2022
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The Century Cycle by August Wilson - King Hedley II
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April 11, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - Middle Third - Paragraphs 199-258
April 9, 2022
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Section Two - First Half
April 7, 2022
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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
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Introduction to Martin Heidegger
Rectors Address, Reunion Speech, and Bibliography
April 2, 2022
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History Plays of Shakespeare -Henry VIII
March 31, 2022
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The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Two Trains Running
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March 28, 2022
On Rebirth by Jung - First Half - Paragraphs 199-258
March 27, 2022
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Epistemology
Descartes - Meditations One and Two
March 26, 2022
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters Three - Fourteen (abridged)
March 24, 2022
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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 -
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March 23, 2022
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Part Four - Book Twelve - A Judicial Error II (second half)
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March 21, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln Douglas Debates (edited)
March 20, 2022
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I and Thou - Part Three
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March 17, 2022
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The Century Cycle by August Wilson - Seven Guitars
March 16, 2022
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
Session Twenty-three - Kendi -
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March 14, 2022
Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype
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March 13, 2022
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Introduction to Martin Heidegger
History of Political Philosophy by Strauss - Chapter on Heidegger
March 12, 2022
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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)
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March 7, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln House Divided Speech
March 6, 2022
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I and Thou - Part Two
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March 5, 2022
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant - Preface, Section One
March 3, 2022
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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
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Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Eighteen: Penelope
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February 28, 2022
Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept by Jung
Paragraphs 111-147
February 27, 2022
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History Plays of Shakespeare - Edward III
February 26, 2022
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Is Natural Law Real? - Part IV
Selections from Maritain and Aristotle
February 24, 2022
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Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman - Part Two
February 24, 2022
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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
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Part Four - Book Eleven - Brother Ivan Fyodorovich
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February 21, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Dred Scott Dissenting Opinions
February 20, 2022
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I and Thou - Part One
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February 19, 2022
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Global Trends 2040: Navigating a More Contested World - National Intelligence Council, U.S. Institute of Peace, and Annual Threat Assessment, April 2021
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February 17, 2022
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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
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February 15, 2022
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February 14, 2022
The Concept of the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
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February 13, 2022
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Epistemology - Part IX -
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February 12, 2022
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Chapters One and Two
February 10, 2022
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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
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February 9, 2022
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Part Four - Book Ten - Boys
February 8, 2022
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On the Soul by Aristotle
Book Three - Chapters 1-3
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February 7, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Court Decision
February 2, 2022
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
Session Seventeen - Lincoln -
Lyceum Address, Temperance Address, Mexican War Speech
February 2, 2022
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Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Seventeen: Ithaca
February 1, 2022
Online Intensive
On the Soul by Aristotle
Book Two - Chapters 6-12
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January 31, 2022
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
Paragraphs 45-86
January 30, 2022
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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
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On the Soul by Aristotle
Book Two - Chapters 1-5
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January 24, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln's Mexican War Speech
January 23, 2022
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AFIO's Guide and OSS Conversation: The Osama Bin Laden Raid
January 22, 2022
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Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo -
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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
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January 17, 2022
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
Paragraphs 1-44
January 16, 2022
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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison
Paradise - pages 141-217
January 15, 2022
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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
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On the Soul by Aristotle
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January 10, 2022
The Foundations of Our Republic - Lincoln's Lyceum and Temperance Speeches - 1838 and 1842
January 10, 2022
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History Plays - Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
January 9, 2022
Online Seminar Series
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Selections from Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, and Maritain
January 6, 2022
Online Wittgenstein Intensive
Philosophical Investigations
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January 5, 2022
Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
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January 5, 2022
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Sixteen: Eumaeus
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December 22, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
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December 22, 2021
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive
Part Three - Book Seven - Alyosha
December 16, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
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December 15, 2021
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
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December 12, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Herodotus - The Histories - Book Nine
December 11, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part VIII -
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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
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December 8, 2021
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive
Part One - Book Six - The Russian Monk
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December 6, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
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December 5, 2021
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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison
Paradise - pages 81-138
December 2, 2021
Finding Eurydice - Then and Now
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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
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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
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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
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November 11, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
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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
Online Seminar Series
Anguish and the Absurd
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault - Chapters 1-5
November 4, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Phaedo II by Plato
November 3, 2021
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
Session Six - Federalists Papers 51, 52, 62, 68, 69, 70
November 3, 2021
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Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapter Fifteen: Circe
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November 2, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Eight
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November 1, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Volume I - Chapter Eight (second 1/3)
October 31, 2021
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory - Lancelot and Guinevere - Part One
October 28, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Phaedo by Plato
October 27, 2021
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
Session Five - Federalists Papers 1, 2, 6, 9, 10
October 27, 2021
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive - Part One - Book Three -Sensualists
October 26, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Seven
October 24, 2021
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The History Plays of
Shakespeare - King John
October 23, 2021
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Natural Law Part II
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October 21, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Crito by Plato
October 20, 2021
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
Session Four - A Democracy of Numbers - Lepore
October 19, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Six
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October 18, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
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October 17, 2021
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Espionage and the Common Good
Selections from The Lieber Code and Olsen
October 16, 2021
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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison
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October 14, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Apology by Plato
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October 14, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
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October 13, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
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October 13, 2021
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive
Part One - Book Two - An Inappropriate Gathering
October 12, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Five
October 10, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Stoicism
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - Books 3-5
October 7, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Euthyphro by Plato
October 6, 2021
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Session Two - Part One - The Versatiles: New Englanders
October 6, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen: Oxen of the Sun and Circe (first 1/3)
October 5, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
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October 3, 2021
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Herodotus - The Histories - Book Seven
October 2, 2021
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Epistemology - Part VII -
Posterior Analytics by Aristotle - Book 1 (Chapters 1-4)
September 30, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Symposium by Plato
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September 30, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
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September 29, 2021
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Section Two - The Declaration to the Civil War
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September 29, 2021
Online Brother Karamazov Intensive
Part One - Book One - A Nice Little Family
September 28, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Three
September 26, 2021
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Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
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September 23, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Meno by Plato
September 21, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
Book Two
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September 20, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
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September 19, 2021
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Espionage and the Common Good
Selections from Machiavelli
September 18, 2021
Online Seminar series
Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Jazz - Chapters Four-Six, pp. 89-162
September 16, 2021
Online Greek Intensive
Section Three - Philosophy
Presocratics - Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus
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September 16, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Four - The Revolutions - Chapters Four-Six
September 14, 2021
Online Ethics of Aristotle Intensive
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September 12, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Epistemology - Part VI -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - Book 6, Chapters 9-13 and Book 7, Chapters 1-3
September 11, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Paradiso by Dante - Cantos 1-16
September 11, 2021
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Anguish and the Absurd - Part IX
No Exit and The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre
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September 6, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
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September 5, 2021
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Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo - Second Day pp.190-219 bottom; pp.241-248; pp. 256-end.
September 4, 2021
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Is Natural Law Real?
Antigone by Sophocles
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September 2, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
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August 29, 2021
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book Eight
August 28, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Love -
C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves
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August 23, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Volume I - Chapter Five (2/3)
August 22, 2021
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Espionage and the Common Good
Selections from Sun Tzu and Olsen
August 21, 2021
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Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison - Jazz - Chapters One-Three-3, pp. 3-87
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August 19, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Three - The City - Chapters Twelve-Seventeen
August 15, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Stoicism - Part VII - Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
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August 14, 2021
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A Voice from the South by
Anna Julia Cooper - Part Two, and
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois - Forethought and Chapters Five-Eight
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August 9, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America - Volume I - Chapters Four and Five (1/3)
August 8, 2021
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Herodotus - The Histories - Book Six
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August 5, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Three - The City - Chapters Eight -Eleven
August 4, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Stamped from the Beginning
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August 4, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapters Ten and Eleven: Wandering Rocks and Sirens
August 1, 2021
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Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Henry VI - Part Three
July 28, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Part Thirteen - A Nation of Minute Men
Free Community Online Seminar Series
July 26, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Volume One - Introduction
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July 22, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Three - The City - Chapters Five-Seven
July 21, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Part Twelve - A Conservative Press
July 14, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Part Eleven - Culture Without a Capital
July 13, 2021
Online Republic of Plato Intensive
Book Ten
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July 12, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendments XXV-XXVII
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July 8, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Three - The City - Chapters One-Four
July 7, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Part Ten - The New Uniformity, and The Reading of Shakespeare in Colonial America
July 7, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Lunchtime with Ulysses by James Joyce - Chapters Eight and Nine: Laestrygonians and Scylla and Charybdis
June 30, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
The Limits of Science
June 29, 2021
Online Republic of Plato Intensive
Book Nine
June 26, 2021
Online Seminar Series on Stoicism - Part VI - Marcus Aurelius - Meditations Book 7-12
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June 24, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
Book Two - The Family - Chapters Nine-Ten
June 23, 2021
Online American History Intensive
Section One - The Colonial Period
Stamped from the Beginning
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June 22, 2021
Online Republic of Plato Intensive
Book Eight
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June 21, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II
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June 20, 2021
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Herodotus - The Histories - Book Five
June 19, 2021
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - Book Four
June 19, 2021
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Epistemology - Part V -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - Book 6, Chapters 1-8
June 16, 2021
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Section One - The Colonial Period
New World Medicine and John McWhorter - 1619 Project
June 15, 2021
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Book Seven
June 13, 2021
Online Seminar Series
Shakespeare's Henriad Tetralogy
Henry VI - Part Two
June 12, 2021
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June 10, 2021
The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges
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June 9, 2021
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The Learned Lose Their Monopolies and
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June 8, 2021
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Section Two - Cohort Two
Poetics by Aristotle
June 8, 2021
Online Republic of Plato Intensive
Book Six
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June 7, 2021
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June 6, 2021
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June 5, 2021
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Tokyo Story - 1953 Japanese film
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June 3, 2021
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June 2, 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 20, 2021
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May 15, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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April 27, 2021
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April 25, 2021
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April 24, 2021
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April 22, 2021
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April 21, 2021
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April 20, 2021
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April 18, 2021
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April 17, 2021
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April 15, 2021
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April 13, 2021
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April 11, 2021
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April 11, 2021
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April 10, 2021
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April 10, 2021
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April 8, 2021
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April 7, 2021
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April 6, 2021
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March 30, 2021
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March 28, 2021
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March 27, 2021
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March 25, 2021
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March 23, 2021
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March 21, 2021
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March 20, 2021
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March 20, 2021
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March 18, 2021
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March 16, 2021
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March 15, 2021
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March 14, 2021
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March 13, 2021
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March 13, 2021
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
March 11, 2021
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March 11, 2021
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March 9, 2021
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March 7, 2021
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March 7, 2021
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March 6, 2021
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March 6, 2021
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March 4, 2021
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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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February 20, 2021
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February 18, 2021
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February 16, 2021
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February 15, 2021
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February 14, 2021
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February 13, 2021
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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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February 2, 2021
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February 1, 2021
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January 31, 2021
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The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
January 30, 2021
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January 28, 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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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
January 21, 2021
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January 19, 2021
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January 18, 2021
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Constitutional Amendment XIV, XXV
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January 17, 2021
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Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
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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Iliad by Homer, Books Twenty-One to Twenty-Four
December 15, 2020
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December 14, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - Bill of Rights, Amendment III, IV, V
December 13, 2020
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December 12, 2020
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December 10, 2020
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December 8, 2020
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December 6, 2020
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Saturday, December 5, 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 24, 2020
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November 21, 2020
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November 19, 2020
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Iliad by Homer, Books Nine-Twelve
November 17, 2020
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November 16, 2020
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November 15, 2020
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Clouds by Aristophanes
November 14, 2020
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From Lugubrious to Luminous:
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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 8, 2020
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November 7, 2020
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November 5, 2020
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November 3, 2020
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November 2, 2020
The Foundations of Our Republic - Take II - James Madison - Memorial and Remonstrance - Against Religious Assessments &
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November 1, 2020
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October 31, 2020
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October 29, 2020
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October 29, 2020
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October 27, 2020
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October 24, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part IV - True Histories by Lucian
October 22, 2020
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October 19, 2020
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October 18, 2020
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October 17, 2020
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October 15, 2020
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October 11, 2020
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October 10, 2020
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October 5, 2020
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October 4, 2020
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October 3, 2020
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October 1, 2020
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September 27, 2020
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September 26, 2020
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September 21, 2020
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September 20, 2020
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September 19, 2020
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September 17, 2020
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September 13, 2020
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September 12, 2020
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September 7, 2020
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September 6, 2020
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September 5, 2020
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September 3, 2020
Eastern Classics
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August 30, 2020
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Selected Essays by Simone Weil
August 29, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part III - Selections from Thomas Aquinas
August 27, 2020
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Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part II - Books Six-Ten
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August 24, 2020
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August 23, 2020
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August 22, 2020
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August 20, 2020
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Nietzsche - The Use and Abuse of History - Part I - Books One-Five
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August 20, 2020
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August 15, 2020
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August 10, 2020
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August 9, 2020
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August 8, 2020
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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August 6, 2020
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August 2, 2020
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August 1, 2020
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July 27, 2020
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July 26, 2020
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July 25, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Ocean and Underworld - Part II - The Book of Jonah
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July 23, 2020
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July 19, 2020
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July 18, 2020
Online Seminar Series on Love, Part iI - Aristotle Ethics, Books 8 and 9 edited
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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
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Russian Short Stories
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July 9, 2020
Eastern Classics
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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
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June 27, 2020
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June 25, 2020
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June 25, 2020
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June 20, 2020
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June 18, 2020
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June 15, 2020
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June 13, 2020
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June 11, 2020
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June 7, 2020
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June 6, 2020
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June 1, 2020
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May 30, 2020
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May 28, 2020
Free Online Ojai Chautauqua Panel
What is the Future of Education After COVID-19?
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May 28, 2020
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May 23, 2020
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May 21, 2020
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The Plague by Albert Camus
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May 18, 2020
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May 17, 2020
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May 16, 2020
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May 14, 2020
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May 14, 2020
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May 9, 2020
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May 4, 2020
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May 2, 2020
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April 30, 2020
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April 25, 2020
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April 20, 2020
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April 16, 2020
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April 11, 2020
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April 9, 2020
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April 6, 2020
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March 28, 2020
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Democracy in America, Volume 2 (selections)
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February 29, 2020
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February 25, 2020
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February 24, 2020
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February 22, 2020
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February 20, 2020
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February 16, 2020
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February 11, 2020
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February 10, 2020
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February 8, 2020
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February 6, 2020
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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