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- Collection: St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis
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Is Schrödinger’s What is Life? Still Worth Reading Today?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2022, by Daniel Nicholson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Nicholson describes his lecture: "Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? (1944) is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the…
A Grecian Urn
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 6, 1984, by Howard J. Fisher as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Moment and the Drone
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 4, 2003, by Elliott Zuckerman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Socrates on Trial: Courtroom Procedures and Fictive Apologies in Athenian Literature
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 19, 1999, by Josiah Ober as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What Might We Learn from Alfarabi about Plato and Aristotle?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 24, 1999, by Charles E. Butterworth as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
An Introduction to Maimonides
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 30, 2004, by Ralph Lerner as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 15, 2023, by Daniel Carranza as part of the Formal Lecture Series.The lecture conducts a close reading of Goethe's poem on the "Metamorphosis of Plants" by situating it within Goethe's larger…
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.
How Shall I Live? Plutarch's Timoleon and Aemilius
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 13, 2000, by Keith Whitaker as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Recording is not complete.
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…
The Metaphysics of Practical Reason
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on April 9, 1999, by Richard L. Velkley as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The Place of Astrology in the Classical Tradition
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 8, 2000, by Anthony Grafton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The First Amendment: Freedoms, Civil Peace, and the Quest for Truth
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 3, 2000, by Murray Dry as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Circles of Sorrow: Dialectic and Grief in Go Down Moses
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 16, 2001, by Lael Gold as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
In Defense of Cicero
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 31, 2008, by Walter Nicgorski as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Dr. Nicgorski describes his lecture: "The tradition of criticism of Cicero as a thinker consists in charges that his rhetorical…
Dr. Nicgorski describes his lecture: "The tradition of criticism of Cicero as a thinker consists in charges that his rhetorical…
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.
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.
On Copernicus
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 6, 1967, by Jacob Klein 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.
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.