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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe
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Modernity for Fools and Knaves: Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Pagano on March 29, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In chapter 15 of The Prince Machiavelli famously recommends…
Moments in the Liberal Education of Frederick Douglass from ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’
Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Joseph Macfarland on March 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series.
Money or love? An introduction to Xenophon and his dialogue the Oeconomicus
Audio recording of a lecture given on November 18, 2016 by Eric Buzzetti as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Montesquieu's Persian letters : comic vanity, tragic pride
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 18, 2015 by Janet Dougherty as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Natural science as a liberal art : a panel discussion of the St. John's laboratory program
Audio recording of a panel discussion given on October 9, 2015 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nicia's Virtue
Audio recording of a lecture given by Charlotte Thomas on March 5, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Thucydides gives a scathing account of Nicias’s failures in Sicily…
Nietzsche : the motion that is man
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 22, 2016 by Lise van Boxel as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nietzsche's culture war : the unity of the Untimely Meditations
Audio recording of a lecture given on December 8, 2017 by Shilo Brooks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Nothing more than what the world offers : on Nietzsche's eternal return of the same
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 25, 2019 by Michael Grenke as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Observing Black Holes Large and Small
Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on March 12, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies, highlighted by…
On Aristotle's Hypothetical Method in De Anima
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jacques Duvoisin on December 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "To understand Aristotle’s remark that there is no…
On Friendship
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 26, 2011 by J. Walter Sterling as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On Homer's Gods
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 25, 2015 by Lorraine Pangle as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Audio recording of a lecture given by Annapolis Dean Suzy Paalman on November 15, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously…
On the Biblical, Geometrical, Political Mind: A Panel in Honor of Bob Sacks
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Seth Appelbaum, Phil LeCuyer, April Olsen and Ken Wolfe on March 10, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Robert Sacks, a…
On the ironies of ecological restoration in North America and the Galápagos
Audio recording of a lecture given on March 3, 2017 by Llyd Wells as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On the Mortality of Minds
Audio recording o f a lecture given by John Peters on March 6, 2026 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “As far as we know the most complex thing the universe has brought…
On the Philoctetes of Sophocles : the story of a sickness
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2019 by Richard McCombs as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On the Question of Whether Plato’s Phaedo Displays Philosophy in Two Registers: Benardetean Reflections
Audio recording of a lecture given by Patrick Goodin on December 9, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Quite early in the Phaedo Socrates famously describes philosophy,…
Parody in Paradise: Dante Takes on Thomas Aquinas
Audio recording of a lecture given by Tutor Emeritus John Cornell on September 12, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "Dante’s Comedy is widely assumed to champion the…