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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…
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
Eva Brann, circa 1986
Photograph of Eva Brann used on pg. 47 of a catalogue of St. John's College. The markings on the front state, "86 S.F. G.I."