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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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Political order and political decay : the American political system in a time of global upheaval
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 21, 2016 by Francis Fukuyama as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Poetry, Prosperity and the gods in Hesiod's Works and Days
Audio recording of a lecture given by Steven Forde on September 4, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series with student panelists Alejandro Ross, George Stengren, Bridget Lynch, and Seungyoun Bang. The Dean's Office has provided this…
Play and Playfulness in Plato
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Plato thinks the serious person has need of much…
Plato and the Poets
Audio recording of a lecture given by Elaine Scarry on October 21, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
Philosophy as an Aid to Invention and Creativity
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dave Shafer on March 27, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was the founder of…
Petrarch’s Climb and the Crisis of the New
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor David McDonald on November 18, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In a letter often called “The Ascent of Mt. Ventoux,” the…
Persons and parables : Stanley Elkin's menagerie
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 20, 2018 by Joshua Kates as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Pascal’s Conception of ‘Universal Men’
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 23, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Pascal’s almost unrelenting emphasis on the weakness,…
On the Question of Whether Plato’s Phaedo Displays Philosophy in Two Registers: Benardetean Reflections
Audio recording of a lecture given by Patrick Goodin on December 9, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Quite early in the Phaedo Socrates famously describes philosophy,…
On the Philoctetes of Sophocles : the story of a sickness
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2019 by Richard McCombs as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On the ironies of ecological restoration in North America and the Galápagos
Audio recording of a lecture given on March 3, 2017 by Llyd Wells as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On the Biblical, Geometrical, Political Mind: A Panel in Honor of Bob Sacks
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Seth Appelbaum, Phil LeCuyer, April Olsen and Ken Wolfe on March 10, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Robert Sacks, a…
On Homer's Gods
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 25, 2015 by Lorraine Pangle as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On Aristotle's Hypothetical Method in De Anima
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jacques Duvoisin on December 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "To understand Aristotle’s remark that there is no…
Observing Black Holes Large and Small
Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on March 12, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies, highlighted by…
Nothing more than what the world offers : on Nietzsche's eternal return of the same
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 25, 2019 by Michael Grenke as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nietzsche's culture war : the unity of the Untimely Meditations
Audio recording of a lecture given on December 8, 2017 by Shilo Brooks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nietzsche : the motion that is man
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 22, 2016 by Lise van Boxel as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nicia's Virtue
Audio recording of a lecture given by Charlotte Thomas on March 5, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Thucydides gives a scathing account of Nicias’s failures in Sicily…
Natural science as a liberal art : a panel discussion of the St. John's laboratory program
Audio recording of a panel discussion given on October 9, 2015 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.