Louis Petrich + Michael Grenke: The Limitations & Possibilities of Sight: Euclid’s Optics
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Louis Petrich + Michael Grenke: The Limitations & Possibilities of Sight: Euclid’s Optics is episode 1 of the Continuing the Conversation series and podcast. The episode was published on January 19, 2023.
What are the limitations and possibilities of perception—and what do ancient mathematics and modern literature have to say about this question? Written in 300 BC, Euclid’s Optics is a foundational work of mathematics on the geometry of vision, while Swann’s Way, the first book in Proust’s multi-volume Remembrance of Things Past, published in 1913, states: “Even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole. Even the very simple act that we call ‘seeing the person we know’ is, in part, an intellectual one; we fill in the physical appearance of the individual we see with all the notions we have about him, and of the total picture that we form for ourselves, these notions certainly occupy the greater part.” These works are the jumping off points for a conversation between Annapolis tutor Michael Grenke and host Louis Petrich, on the limitations and possibilities of perception.
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2023-01-19
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Louis Petrich + Jonathan Badger: Pursuing the Eternal Present
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Louis Petrich + Jonathan Badger: Pursuing the Eternal Present is episode 4 of the Continuing the Conversation series and podcast. The episode was published on February 15, 2023.
Does a contemplative life bring us closer to the divine, as Aristotle believed? Is it the highest form of human life or is it self-centered and lived at the expense of others? Can one lead a contemplative life while living in the real world? Philosophers, artists, mystics, and students have long pursued lives of solitude, contemplation, and creative exploration, only to encounter a recurring set of practical obstacles and vexing moral questions. In this episode of Continuing the Conversation, Annapolis host Louis Petrich and tutor Jonathan Badger explore a conversation that honors the pursuit of “the eternal present” in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence (based on the life of the painter Gauguin), while exploring its attendant questions with equal concern and gravity. This episode also includes conversation on works by Goethe, Rousseau, Thoreau, and Aristotle.
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2023-02-15
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The Questions of Lear and Cordelia
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Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 7, 2007, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2007-09-07
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Falstaff Riseth Up
Typescript of a lecture delivered by Louis Petrich on April 12, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series. A PowerPoint presentation was given at the beginning of the lecture and is included at the end of the typescript.
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2019-04-12
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Falstaff Riseth Up
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Louis Petrich on April 12, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The beginning of the recording includes music. A PowerPoint presentation was given at the beginning of the lecture.
A description of the lecture by the presenter is as follows:
My lecture Friday, on Henry IV, Part 1,
gives voice, image, and preponderant meaning to Falstaff,
that colossal comic genius of Shakespeare’s bosom.
It should at least succeed to entertain the willing.
If the matter in the lecture carries conviction,
as I fear it does, then what can’t be helped--
I mean the abominable misleading of youth—
and why not of elders still assailable?--
may nonetheless be stomached (one always hopes)
as affirmation of life—
lived large—
followed by re-edification, in the question period.
I’ve put enough in to risk everyone’s good opinion at least once,
and left plenty for imagination to assist good will to gratify.
The audience must rise or fall to the matter
on whatever staffing they’ve been provided to carry them
from bed to board, from board to bed.
To deliver the lecture any differently would not become my title,
Falstaff Riseth Up,
which, by the way, comes authorized by Shakespeare.
(Henry IV, Part 1, V. iv. 110—for those who like to text.)
I think this will do—
to usher in the sweet morsels of a Friday night
and not leave them unpicked,--
but that’s for taste in leisure to decide
and put to proof--
of eye and ear,
with tongue and thigh . . .
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"The Student," by Anton Chekhov: A Story Told and Glanced At
Typescript of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2017, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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Reprinted from the St. John's Review, 59.1-2 (2017-2018).
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2017-11-03
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<em>The Student</em>, by Anton Chekhov: A Story About Us Told and Glanced At
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2017, by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2017-11-03
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To meet with Macbeth
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Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 20, 2012 by Louis Petrich as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
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2012-04-20
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