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"Everyone Sees How You Appear; Few Touch What You Are": Machiavelli on Human Nature
Typescript of a lecture delivered on June 20, 2012 by Jeff Black as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Mr. Black is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk is on exactly what constitutes human nature in the work of…
Mr. Black is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk is on exactly what constitutes human nature in the work of…
A Tale of Two Theodicies: Kant and the Self-Contradictions of Leibnizian Theodicy
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on June 28, 2017 by Joseph Trullinger as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Trullinger, an assistant professor at George Washington University, examines Leibniz, Kant and the philosophers’…
Trullinger, an assistant professor at George Washington University, examines Leibniz, Kant and the philosophers’…
Community Colleges and Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Video recording of a panel discussion held on July 1, 2020 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Like St. John’s, community colleges are institutions devoted primarily to teaching and learning. They reach a broad and diverse…
Like St. John’s, community colleges are institutions devoted primarily to teaching and learning. They reach a broad and diverse…
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…
Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 11, 2012 by Steven Gimbel as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Gimbel's lecture is on the relationship between Judaism and Einstein's scientific thinking, in particular Einstein's…
Gimbel's lecture is on the relationship between Judaism and Einstein's scientific thinking, in particular Einstein's…
Euclid as Teacher
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 10, 2019 by William Braithwaite as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Mr. Braithwaite is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk centers on Euclid's role as an educator…
Mr. Braithwaite is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. His talk centers on Euclid's role as an educator…
Friday Night Events: Summer 1985
Schedule of lectures and concerts in Summer 1985, sponsored by the Graduate Institute.
From Nature to History: The Search for Fundamental Necessities in Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 13, 2017, by Charles Zug as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Ideas: America Rising, A Call for a New Great Awakening
Video recording of a lecture delivered on June 17, 2020 by David Townsend as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Mr. Townsend describes his lecture: "The idea of America, the ideal type American, and the Spirit of America depend…
Mr. Townsend describes his lecture: "The idea of America, the ideal type American, and the Spirit of America depend…
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…
Learning, Knowing, and Remembering in a Digital World
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on July 26, 2017 by Naomi Baron as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Lecture Schedule, Summer 1981 - February Freshman
Schedule of lectures and concerts in Summer 1981, sponsored by the Graduate Institute.
Modern Technology and Modern Discourse
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Lee Goldsmith on June 12, 2024, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
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…
Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Video recording of a lecture by Professor Chad Wellmon of the University of Virginia, held on June 23, 2021 as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Professor Wellmon describes his lecture: "The humanities didn't come into their own,…
Property, Belief, and the Barbarian in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on June 13, 2018, by John M. Peterson as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Reading Plato’s Meno Online
Video recording of a lecture delivered on June 24, 2020 by William Braithwaite as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The final minute of the recording (beginning at 01:02:00) is in audio format only. Mr. Braithwaite describes his…
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…
Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite"
Typescript of a lecture delivered by Jonathan Tuck as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Mr. Tuck is a Tutor emeritus at St. John's College Annapolis. His talk consists of three parts: (1) a short introduction to Sappho, her…
Mr. Tuck is a Tutor emeritus at St. John's College Annapolis. His talk consists of three parts: (1) a short introduction to Sappho, her…
Schedule of Wednesday Events, Summer 2006
Schedule of lectures and concerts in Summer 2006, sponsored by the Graduate Institute.