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- Collection: St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis
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Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles: Hegel's Inverted World
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 15, 2010, by Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Principles of motion and the motion of principles: Hegel's inverted world
Typescript of a lecture delivered on October 15, 2010 by Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Prefacing the Absolute in Hegel's Phenomenology
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 2, 2015, by Andrew Alexander Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Davis describes his lecture: "Hegel claims that truth must be presented in a system. He also claims that there can be no…
Davis describes his lecture: "Hegel claims that truth must be presented in a system. He also claims that there can be no…
Poverty in America
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Chris Arnade, Ph.D. on October 30, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Arnade describes his lecture: "What costs do current political and economic forces impose on the worst off among us? We often…
Politics According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (with Emphasis on The Brothers Karamazov)
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2000, by Donna Orwin as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Note: the audio cuts out briefly at 00:45:47.
Note: the audio cuts out briefly at 00:45:47.
Poetry reading from "Train Dance"
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 27, 2012 by Jonathan Wells as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Poetry and Mathematics
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 2, 2009 by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Plutarch’s Swarm
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2017, by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B.…
Plato's theory of ideas
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 14, 1979 by Eva Brann 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.
Plato's Timaeus and the will to order
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 24, 2000 by Peter Kalkavage as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Pity as a Civic Virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 8, 2011, by Marina McCoy as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Arthur Melzer, Professor at Michigan State University, on November 1, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Melzer describes his lecture topic as follows: "Is it true that most philosophers prior to…
Melzer describes his lecture topic as follows: "Is it true that most philosophers prior to…
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.…
Philosophic Anthropology and the Emergence of Liberal Constitutionalism
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by Michael Zuckert, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, on September 13, 2019 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Zuckert describes his lecture topic as follows:…
Zuckert describes his lecture topic as follows:…
Perceptual and Deliberative Imagination in Aristotle’s De Anima
Video recording of the National Endowment for the Humanities lecture delivered on April 22, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Jason Tipton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Tipton describes his lecture: "Many animals, Aristotle claims, live by…
Paternity and Piety: Noah and His Sons
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 30, 1998, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Our Polity
Typescript of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
Our Polity
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…
On Thucydides
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 15, 2016, by Santa Fe tutor Caleb Thompson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Thompson says of his lecture: "Thucydides writes that during the horrors of the civil war in Corcyra, 'Words had to…
Thompson says of his lecture: "Thucydides writes that during the horrors of the civil war in Corcyra, 'Words had to…