St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis

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St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis

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Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights.  Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts.

For more information, and for a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the St. John's College website.  

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A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast.  Visit Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify to listen and subscribe.

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St. John's College Greenfield Library

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formallectureseriesannapolis

Collection Items

Being a Book
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…

“The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates:" Kierkegaard on the Infinity of Socratic Irony
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 23, 2022, by Mary Townsend as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Ms. Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University in New York. She is the author of The Woman Question in…

History and the Liberal Arts
Typescript of a lecture delivered June 5, 1953, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The typescript was printed by the St. John's College Press and sold in the college's book store around 1965.

Aristotle (An Introduction)
Typescript of a lecture delivered April 20, 1962, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The typescript is an enlarged version of the lecture that was delivered.

About Plato's Philebus
Typescript of a lecture delivered May 20, 1971, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Plato's Ion
Typescript of a lecture delivered October 1, 1972, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Speech: Its Strength and Its Weaknesses
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 23, 1973, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

On Parts and Wholes in Living Things:  Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2023, by Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…

Frederick Douglass on Force and Persuasion
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 21, 1997, by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Finding Perspective and Staying in One’s Room: Thoughts on Several of Pascal’s Pensées and Latour’s Repentant Magdalene
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Being a Book
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to…

The Discovery of Entropy, 1824-1865
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 31, 2001, by Adam Schulman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Cells and Genes are Parts of Animals: Aristotle in the Late 20th Century
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 16, 1994, by James N. Jarvis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Argument Not Less But More Heroic: Milton's Advent'rous Song in Paradise Lost
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the Great Tradition
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 15, 2004, by Henry Higuera as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Song and Dance and Faith and Prayer: The Case of J. S. Bach's Magnificat
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 9, 1996 by Beate Ruhm von Oppen as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

On Copernicus
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 6, 1967, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Must Eudaimonism Mean the Euthanasia of All Morals: Kant's Rigorism and the Morality of Happiness
Typescript of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2001, by Daniel Kolb as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Must Eudaimonism Mean the Euthanasia of All Morals: Kant's Rigorism and the Morality of Happiness
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2001, by Daniel Kolb as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

In Defense of Cicero
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 31, 2008, by Walter Nicgorski as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Dr. Nicgorski describes his lecture: "The tradition of criticism of Cicero as a thinker consists in charges that his rhetorical…
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