On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
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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 as it gives its characteristic beat. Both authors recognize that the heart alternates between squeezing and opening up. Harvey posits that the beat occurs as the heart squeezes closed while Descartes believes the beat happens as the heart opens up. Both have access to similar observations. How is it that they come to opposite conclusions? I’ll discuss how their differing views of how to think about living things likely play a role in this disagreement. I'll examine what we have learned since their time about how the heart beats. Finally, given what we’ve learned, I'll ask the question: What can we say about the nature of living things?"
Ms. Paalman's lecture is the first formal lecture of the academic year. Previously referred to as the Dean's Lecture, this lecture is now called the Christopher B. Nelson Lecture.
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2023-09-25
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Frederick Douglass on Force and Persuasion
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 21, 1997, by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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1997-11-21
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Finding Perspective and Staying in One’s Room: Thoughts on Several of Pascal’s <em>Pensées</em> and Latour’s <em>Repentant Magdalene</em>
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2005-09-09
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Annapolis, MD
Being a Book
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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 play no essential role—at least if you believe the first statement of the program, written by Scott Buchanan. Where you would expect the word 'conversation' you find 'instruction' instead, as in this brief description of the seminar:
Meetings of seminar groups will occur twice a week with any additional meetings that special circumstances or difficulties may indicate. There will be two instructors in charge, and the instruction will make use of a wide range of devices from explication de texte to analysis of intellectual content and the dialectical treatment of critical opinion.
When I read this description, I like to think that the importance of conversation to our endeavor emerged over time: a matter of discovery rather than dictate.
Has something similar happened with the importance of books to our endeavor? We have always stated this importance in terms of what makes certain books great; but what makes them books, I have come to think, is even more central to our experience of reading them, discussing them, and learning from them. Perhaps there is no way to dictate by 'great' how we come to find ourselves in these books, just as there was no way to dictate by 'instruction' how we came to find ourselves in a conversation about these books.
But what makes books books? What does it mean to be a book? This is the question of my lecture. And my hope—despite the St. John’s frame I use here—is that the lecture will be of interest to any reader of books, even if it fails, by my lights, to make full sense of a book."
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2024-02-23
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Annapolis, MD
The Discovery of Entropy, 1824-1865
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 31, 2001, by Adam Schulman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2001-08-31
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Annapolis, MD
Cells and Genes are Parts of Animals: Aristotle in the Late 20th Century
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Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 16, 1994, by James N. Jarvis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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1994-09-16
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Annapolis, MD
Argument Not Less But More Heroic: Milton's Advent'rous Song in <em>Paradise Lost</em>
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 11, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2005-02-11
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Annapolis, MD
Hegel's <em>Phenomenology of Spirit</em> and the Great Tradition
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 15, 2004, by Henry Higuera as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2004-10-15
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Annapolis, MD
Song and Dance and Faith and Prayer: The Case of J. S. Bach's Magnificat
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 9, 1996 by Beate Ruhm von Oppen as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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1996-02-09
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Annapolis, MD
Must Eudaimonism Mean the Euthanasia of All Morals: Kant's Rigorism and the Morality of Happiness
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Typescript of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2001, by Daniel Kolb as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2001-04-20
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Must Eudaimonism Mean the Euthanasia of All Morals: Kant's Rigorism and the Morality of Happiness
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2001, by Daniel Kolb as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2001-04-20
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Annapolis, MD
In Defense of Cicero
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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 interests and oratorical excellence intrude on his philosophical work, that he is more the patriot than the philosopher, that a busy life of political activism led him to be philosophically eclectic and superficial, and that his character, especially his ambition and pride, make him unworthy to be a philosophical guide in a search for a life-directing wisdom. This lecture, by attending to certain topics and passages in the writings of Cicero, looks to him to provide his own defense. The body of the lecture explores his Socratic orientation reaching to his very skepticism, his regard for Plato including his remarkable way of reading The Republic, his apparent elevation of political action and statesmanship over the life of philosophy, and his teaching on the virtues and natural law. What emerges from this partial and selective examination of his philosophical writings is, at the least, a prima facie case for a further, more careful and fuller engagement with his thinking."
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2008-10-31
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Annapolis, MD
Circles of Sorrow: Dialectic and Grief in <em>Go Down Moses</em>
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 16, 2001, by Lael Gold as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2001-11-16
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Annapolis, MD
The First Amendment: Freedoms, Civil Peace, and the Quest for Truth
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2000, by Murray Dry as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2000-11-03
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LEC_Dry_Murray_2000-11-03_ac
Annapolis, MD
The Place of Astrology in the Classical Tradition
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 8, 2000, by Anthony Grafton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2000-09-08
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LEC_Grafton_Anthony_2000-09-08_ac
Annapolis, MD
The Metaphysics of Practical Reason
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 9, 1999, by Richard L. Velkley as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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1999-04-09
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LEC_Velkley_Richard_1999-04-09_ac
Annapolis, MD
What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew
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Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 27, 2023, by Ron Haflidson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.<br /><br />Mr. Haflidson describes his lecture: "In this lecture, I explore the largely neglected and perhaps totally wrong possibility that when Jesus spoke about 'hell,' he wasn’t talking about the afterlife. The inquiry proceeds by focusing on Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Matthew (the New Testament text with by far the most references to hell). I will pursue the case that for Matthew’s Jesus, hell was an impending event within history, not a place some people go after they die. The lecture is divided into two parts: in the first, we consider the various ways that lead to hell; in the second, we examine the nature of hell itself.<br /><br />Mr. Haflidson is a tutor in Annapolis.
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2023-10-27
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LEC_Haflidson_Ron_2023-10-27_ac
Annapolis, MD
How Shall I Live? Plutarch's Timoleon and Aemilius
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 13, 2000, by Keith Whitaker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Recording is not complete.
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2000-10-13
A signed permission form has been received stating: "I hereby grant St. John's College permission to: Make an audiovisual recording of my lecture, and retain copies for circulation and archival preservation in the St. John's College Greenfield Library. Make an audiovisual recording of my lecture available online. Make a typescript copy of my lecture available for circulation and archival preservation in the St. John's College Greenfield Library. Make a typescript of my lecture available online."
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AB010
Annapolis, MD
Speech: Its Strength and Its Weaknesses
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 1973, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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1973-02-23
The Greenfield Library holds the literary rights to Jacob Klein's work.
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Tape_100
Annapolis, MD
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
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Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.<br /><br />The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger scientific endeavor to understand what it means for a being to be a specifically living being, in particular what the kind of wholeness exhibited by the organism, whether plant, animal, or human, looks like. Particular attention will be paid to the philosophical resources upon which Goethe draws in his scientific investigation of nature, in particular Aristotle's four causes, the fourth, formal one of which is decisive for Goethe's morphology or study of living forms, and Spinoza's conatus, which Goethe understood as the organism's own endeavor to persevere in and more fully realize its own being.<br /><br />Professor Carranza is an assistant professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University.
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2023-09-15
A signed permission form has been received stating: "I hereby grant St. John's College permission to: make a recording of my lecture, and retain copies for circulation and archival preservation at the St. John’s College Greenfield Library; make a recording of my lecture available online; make typescript copies of my lecture available for circulation and archival preservation at the St. John’s College Greenfield Library; make a copy of my typescript available online."
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LEC_Carranza_Daniel_2023-09-15_ac
Annapolis, MD
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