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- Collection: St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis
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Circles of Sorrow: Dialectic and Grief in Go Down Moses
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 16, 2001, by Lael Gold as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The First Amendment: Freedoms, Civil Peace, and the Quest for Truth
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2000, by Murray Dry as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Place of Astrology in the Classical Tradition
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 8, 2000, by Anthony Grafton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Metaphysics of Practical Reason
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 9, 1999, by Richard L. Velkley as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew
Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 27, 2023, by Ron Haflidson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Mr. Haflidson describes his lecture: "In this lecture, I explore the largely neglected and perhaps totally wrong possibility that when…
How Shall I Live? Plutarch's Timoleon and Aemilius
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 13, 2000, by Keith Whitaker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Recording is not complete.
Speech: Its Strength and Its Weaknesses
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 1973, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger…
An Introduction to Maimonides
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 30, 2004, by Ralph Lerner as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What Might We Learn from Alfarabi about Plato and Aristotle?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 24, 1999, by Charles E. Butterworth as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Socrates on Trial: Courtroom Procedures and Fictive Apologies in Athenian Literature
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 19, 1999, by Josiah Ober as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Moment and the Drone
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 4, 2003, by Elliott Zuckerman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
A Grecian Urn
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 6, 1984, by Howard J. Fisher as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Is Schrödinger’s What is Life? Still Worth Reading Today?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2022, by Daniel Nicholson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholson describes his lecture: "Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? (1944) is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the…
Race and Social Justice: On W.E.B. DuBois' The Conservation of Races
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 20, 1991, by Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Hegel's Reading of Antigone
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 1988, by Patricia Locke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What Is a Philosophic Question?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 28, 1989, by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Paternity and Piety: Noah and His Sons
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 30, 1998, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
How Deeply Does Democracy Shape Us?: Tocqueville on Our Ideas and Sentiments
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2022, by Bryan Garsten as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Professor Garsten offers this description of his lecture: "The lecture will investigate how the Puritans are the point of departure…
Agonizing Over a Decision: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About the Relationship Between Thought and Emotion
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 6, 2007, by Julie Fiez as part of the Formal Lecture Series.