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The Problem of Absolute Knowing
Typescript of a lecture delivered on June 17, 2015 by Abraham Greenstine as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Greenstine's lecture looks at the possibility and problems of "Absolute Knowing" in Hegel's Phenomonology of Spirit. In…
Courage, Insight, Sympathy, Solitude: The Genealogy of the Noble Type in Part Nine of Beyond Good and Evil.
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 1, 2012, by Lise van Boxel as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Ms. van Boxel was a tutor at St. John's College. Her talk is on Nietzsche's Geneology of Morals. In particular, her…
Dante's Ontology: What the Florentine Poet Can Teach Contemporary Philosophers
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 21, 2014, by Graham Harman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The life of philosophy and the immortality of the soul : an introduction to Plato
Transcript of a lecture given in 1997 by David Bolotin.
Reasons without Reason: Anti-rationalism in Heidegger’s Being and Time
Typescript of a lecture delivered on June 29, 2016 by Lee Goldsmith as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.Mr. Goldsmith is an instructor of philosophy at George Washington University. His talk is about the issue of reason and the…
Four sides of a cube : or, why a certain question must be asked again and again
Transcript of a lecture given on August 31, 2001 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A world of worldless truths, an invitation to philosophy
Transcript of the Graduate Institute convocation address given on June 20, 1999 by David Levine in Santa Fe, NM.
Introduction: Philosophic Writing
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 6, 1983 by Joe Sachs s part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Sachs is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk is a draft of his introduction to his translation of Aristotle's…
On Finishing Plato's Symposium
Typescript of a lecture delivered in summer 1986 by Jonathan Tuck as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lectures Series. Mr. Tuck is a Tutor emeritus at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk is about how to approach and to reapproach a reading…
Incommensurability: Meno and the Diagonal
"Can beautiful speeches give rise to beautiful deeds?"
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Cary Stickney on October 21, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Cary Stickney on October 21, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
Self-Consciousness in Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: What do we Understand when we Understand?
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Kit Slover on February 26, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant confesses…
Philosophy and the Cave Wall: Plato and Kant on the Form of the Given
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2023, by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Caswell describes his lecture: "The lecture will compare inquiries into the nature of sensibility offered by Plato, and by Kant.…
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.