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Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Reason Language A language of the resource English Graduate Institute https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d42f276fbca3d172192295ca1d572a14.pdf 3d5cac9e721a5a70d19189c3cafefcdb PDF Text Text GOING FOR GOLD Linda Wiener St. John’s College Santa Fe, NM 87505 The 1966 film, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, is the first of Sergio Leone’s great Spaghetti Westerns, made in Spain, with Italian actors and American stars, this is the film that made Clint Eastwood a star. According to Brent Kliewer of the College of Santa Fe, it is the most recognizable film music score in history and the success of the film turned Italy’s film industry into a spaghetti western industry for the next decade. Briefly, it is the story of three men and their search for $200,000 in gold that belongs to none of them. I’ve come to believe that a major focus of this film is the exploration of some of the questions and motifs raised in Plato’s great dialogue, The Republic. Today, I want to explore some of the parallels between these two works, and reflect on Sergio Leone’s and Plato’s views. Plato’s Republic is an extended conversation about Justice. In Book I, this question is asked by Socrates: “Can a gang of robbers or thieves…that set out for some unjust purpose in common, achieve their object if they deal unjustly with each other?” Obviously, this is one of the questions of the movie as well. This part of the conversation concludes: “They could not keep their hands off each other if absolutely unjust, it is clear that some justice was in them and by this justice they accomplished as much as they did.” We are also told a few other things about justice in Book I. “Justice gives friendship and a single mind” while “the work of injustice…is to implant hatred.” The analogy between justice and gold is also raised in this first book. We are told that the search for justice is something more valuable than even gold. What and where is this justice? In Book 4, the narrator, Socrates, and his interlocutors are looking for justice in the city and decide that maybe if they look for justice in one man, then by analogy, they can find in in the city. The soul of man is determined to be in three parts: the largest part are the desires (epithumos), for sex, food, alcohol, money, and luxuries. This part is associated with the merchant class. Next is the spirited part, or fighting spirit (thumos), associated with the military or guardians. This part is concerned with victory, glory, and honor. The highest part is reason (nous), which is concerned with truth. Reason’s job is to guide and order the other two parts and is associated with the wise rulers; the philosopher kings. The three men of the title correspond to the three parts of Plato’s soul. Let’s meet them. We are first introduced to The Ugly, played by Eli Wallach, when 3 bounty hunters, guns blazing, burst into the place where he is eating, CLIP: BURSTING OUT The word in Greek is aisxros, which means ugly or base. His name in the movie is Tuco, Greek for luck or chance, and indeed he does seem to act by whim and according to the desire of the moment. This first view of him with a turkey leg in one hand and a gun in the other tells us a lot. Next we are introduced to The Bad, played by Lee Van Cleef, and nicknamed Angel Eyes in a long sequence in which he tracks down the name of a man, Bill Carson, and learns that he has a lot of gold. He kills a lot of innocent people, and also his not very nice or innocent boss. CLIP: KILLING BOSS He is a killer, not by necessity or in the heat of the moment; he kills with pleasure. Bad in Greek is kakon, which also means evil. Our introduction to The Good, played by Clint Eastwood and nicknamed Blondie, is even more protracted. We first see him killing three bounty hunter war out for the $2,000 reward for 1 �turning in Tuco. He then brings him in and collects the reward. Next we see him here: CLIP: HANGING Notice the long list of crimes of desire for which Tuco is condemned. Turnso out they have an interesting scam going and an interesting relationship with each other. It is worth noting that the very title of the film THE Good, THE Bad, and THE Ugly has strong Platonic resonances. The foiled hanging is followed by an important scene. CLIP: DIVIDE MONEY Here, one of the main dicta of the proper relationship between the parts of the soul is violated. It is important to Plato that the desires take orders from the reason, and not the other way around and also that each part get its proper share. Here, the desires want more than their share. The next time they do their scam, The Good almost misses his shot and then splits their partnership: CLIP: LEFT IN DESERT Kalos means good or beautiful in Greek. How is this Good? I asked myself this and realized that Plato had the answer and that this film was about his answer. The answer I got from Plato was this: The epithumos, or desires, really always has a rope around its neck. The headlong rush of the desires toward their goal mean they often lead to the noose and even more, need a noose around the neck in order to be controlled at all. The Good is doing good here, though it may not seem so. But, really how could an outlaw and a killer be Good (capital G)? That is a question I want to defer until later. The Good, as reason, does contrast considerably with The Ugly. He is consistently soft spoken and dispassionate compared with the rambunctious enthusiasms and anger of Tuco. He is also, like Plato’s Good, rather abstract in that he has no real name and no family or history that we hear of. Meanwhile, in his own brutal way, Angel Eyes tracks Carson and Tuco tracks Blondie. When Tuco tries to switch roles by hanging The Good, it doesn’t work. Then Tuco tries to get revenge by forcing The Good to walk in the desert without water. It is here that things really get rolling. At the fatal moment when Tuco is about to shoot Blondie, a runaway coach comes by. It is here we meet the man The Bad was seeking at the beginning, the one who knows where the gold is buried, Bill Carson. Carson tells Tuco the name of the graveyard, but when Carson sends Tuco to get some water, it is Blondie who is told the name on the grave. Carson dies, and suddenly: CLIP: DON’T DIE We can see they need each other because neither has enough information to get the gold alone. Gold, in the Republic is constantly used as the material metaphor for The Good, which is the object of philosophical desire. Another symbol is the sun, by the bright light of which truth is seen. It is an almost constant presence in this movie. Leone suggest that it may be these outlaws, outside of the city, who have more understanding of things as they really are and who can find the gold. The caves where people are deluded by shadows and showmen in this movie are The Church, the saloon, family homes, and military barracks. The Church is a presence. Tuco is very superstitious and crosses himself when he sees a dead body or kills someone. However, though the monks in the movie are kind and care for the wounded and sick, they are not necessarily closer to truth. Here we see Tuco with his brother: CLIP: MONASTERY. The civil war has been a constant presence in the movie, leaving bombed out towns and wounded soldiers in its wake. Socrates, in Book IV tells about the important role the guardians play in the city. But, he says, “if the guardians are no good they ruin the whole city…and all are unhappy.” Now we move into the military world as our two heroes are captured: CLIP: GREY TO BLUE. We see that there is not a good and bad side in the war, all warriors are alike. 2 �We now meet The Bad again as a sergeant in the Union army; he is shown to be a brutal and dishonest officer. He is alerted to our two heroes because Tuco has taken the name of Carson. He has Tuco tortured until he gives the name of the cemetery in a scene too brutal for me to want to show. However, it is important. Plato knows that the military man is dangerous unless he has the right education and is under the control of reason. Otherwise, as seen here, “he teams up with the desires” and turns brutal and savage. Tuco is sent off to die and The Bad teams up with Blondie to go for the gold. He does not torture him, and here, the spirited part shows himself, at least outwardly, considerably more civilized in the presence of the reasoning part. Tuco escapes and they all end up in yet another bombed out town. When Blondie hears Tuco’s gun he knows he is there and goes to rejoin him. The Good, who had formerly deserted The Ugly as not worthy, now goes to seek him, showing that he knows that he cannot, in fact, do without him. Together they shoot down The Bad’s henchmen (though he escapes) and head off together for the cemetery. They are captured again and taken to the Captain: CLIP: FIGHTING SPIRIT. There seems to be no intrinsic fighting spirit in these men. Here. They really see the stupidity and futility of the war of a whole people deluded by shadows; the best of them, like the captain, can only escape through drink. Blondie remarks “I’ve never seen so many men wasted so badly.” The supposed evil of these outlaws pales in comparison with the institutional violence wrought by the civil war. The gold is on the other side of the bridge over which the armies are fighting, so they blow up the bridge to get the armies to leave and incidentally save many men. They head again for the cemetery. Plato tells us in Book VI that the “inborn nature of those beautiful and good is gentleness.” CLIP: DYING SOLDIER. Even when they are so close to the gold, The Good still spares some time to comfort a dying young soldier, sharing his cigar (a symbol of friendship in this film) and covering him with his coat. The goodness of The Good has become more apparent to me by this time. I think The Good has learned a few things as well, symbolized (more on this in a bit) by the changing of his duster for the poncho. If we saw the real value of The Good in the previous scene, we see the real value of The Ugly here: CLIP: LOOKING FOR GRAVE. Plato speaks of the need for strong desires in the one who will become a great philosopher; we can’t imagine The Good performing this passionate search for the grave. In fact, reason must be dragged by the desires to begin his philosophical search at all. The name on the grave is Arch Stanton which is Greek. Archos, first or to begin; Stanton, a neuter participle meaning a thing which stands. The whole name means something like the first foundation or first thing to stand on. I’m not sure what to make of this yet. The Bad shows up, and though we have seen the three main characters in all combinations of two in the film, this is the first time all three are together. Here we see The Good take control of the group and demand they earn the gold which is not, it turns out, in Arch Stanton’s grave at all. The climactic scene take place on the fields of the dead, just as Plato’s Republic ends in the land of the dead, where souls have to choose what their subsequent life will be. In the Platonic myth, they can choose well or badly based on their ability to think about their past and know what is best. This is a similar moment of truth. CLIP: SHOOT OUT. The death of Bad shows that, for Leone, we ultimately cannot live with or train the fighting spirit as represented by The Bad. It must be eliminated. This is a significant difference from Plato, who places high hopes in the guardian class. Tuco digs and finds gold, in the adjoining grave, with no name on it. Just like The Good, the Gold does not belong to anyone in 3 �particular, but is there for those who search and persevere and dig. But also, Sergio Leone suggests that the search is long and arduous. The whole hanging motif is repeated, Blondie divides the gold in half “just like old times.” Before we end let us go back to the question in Book I of The Republic. Can unjust men achieve a common goal? The answer seems to be yes, but only when the group or the parts of the soul are well ordered and under the control of reason. However, the different parts must appreciate what they can and cannot do; The Good needs The Ugly as much as the other way around. It turns out that Tuco was in the end worth more than $3,000. And, at least in Leone’s view, the fighting spirit has turned into mere savageness, a destructive force for society and one who wants all the gold for himself alone. He must be destroyed for others to live. CLIP: SHOOTING DOWN. They split at the end, as they have split up before. The Ugly is still his old self. But, the last scene causes me to revisit some of the earlier conclusions. The Good seems to have learned some valuable lessons and effected a transformation. Notice that he rides off on Tuco’s dark horse and notice also that he is wearing the poncho he obtained from the dying young soldier. I believe this means that he rides off as a whole human being, with all three parts of his soul. The dark horse represents the desires (as in the chariot metaphor in The Phaedrus) and the poncho from the young soldier represents the fighting spirit in a more innocent, uncorrupted state. We cannot live with the fighting spirit in the form of the institutionalized violence and savagery represented by The Bad, but we cannot simply do without such an essential part of our soul, either. The Good rides away with $100,000. However, the benefits to him are far more than just Gold; they are a full and well-ordered soul of a philosopher. Remark of one of the audience members: the film shows that the life of the mind, as represented here by Clint Eastwood, is THE coolest thing that there is in the world. 4 �BOOKMARKS Name Chapter Start Finish Bursting Out 3 5:39 5:48 Killing Boss 6 16:36 17:27 Hanging 9 21:53 22:58 Divide Money 9 23:39 24:12 Leave in Desert 11 28:11 29:13 Don’t Die 24 1:02:09 1:02:46 Monastery 27 1:13:56 1:14:51 Blue or Grey 29 1:17:48 1:18:37 Fighting Spirit 47 1:59:10 2:00:16 Dying Soldier 55 2:17:34 2:19:17 Look for Grave 57 2:22:48 2:23:24 Shoot Out 60 2:29:21 2:32:22 Shooting Down 63 2:39:10 2:40:45 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Paalman, Susan R. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/3983" title="In want of a wife">"In want of a wife..." or a husband, in <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> (typescript)</a> Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f4888c41c53bb20fbde67afad9888b10.pdf da3029da108713fb37d07b90d87614a6 PDF Text Text • SJC St.John's College LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2013-2014 Date Speaker Title August 23, 2013 Ms. Pamela Kraus Dean St. John's College Annapolis Robert Frost's "To Earthward" August 30 Professor Irene Pepperberg Department of Psychology Harvard University Grey Parrot Number Acquisitions: Parallels With and Differences From Young Children September 6 Ms. Linda Wiener Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe Artistic Expression in Animals September 13 Mr. David Townsend Tutor St. John's College Annapolis The Declaration of Independence: Is That Philosophy, or Did You Make It Up Yourself? September 20 Mr. William Braithwaite Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Is Obscenity Obsolete? September 2 7 (Homecoming) Mr. Matthew Linck Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Knowing and Ground: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit October 4 Long Weekend No Lecture October 11 Professor William Peirce Department of Economics Case Western University Can Taxes Be Fair? Should They Be? October 18 Professor Ronna Burger Department of Philosophy Tulane University In the Wilderness: Moses as Founder and Lawgiver 60 College Avenue I Annapolis, Maryland 21401 I 410-263-2371 I www.sjc.edu �October 25 Professor Daniel P. Maher Department of Philosophy Assumption College Aristotle on Friendship and Teaching Philosophy November 1 (Parent's Weekend) Parker Quartet Concert November 8 All-College Seminar No Lecture November 15 Mr. George Russell Tutor St. John's College Annapolis The Emancipation Proclamation and the New Birth of Freedom November22 Mr. Michael Brogan Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Dwelling in the Land of the Confessions November 29 Thanksgiving No Lecture December 6 King William Players "A Door Made of Frosted Glass" December 13 January 5 Winter Vacation No Lectures January 10 Professor John T. Scott Department of Political Science University of California, Davis Resentment, Justice, and the Appeal to Providence in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments January 17 (Steiner Lecturer) Professor Christopher Ricks Boston University T. S. 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Kelly Department of Political Science Boston College Rousseau 's Chemical Apprenticeship April25 King William Players Shakespeare's King Lear May2 Reality Weekend No Lecture May9 Commencement weekend No Lecture �McGuire, Terry From: Sent: Subject: Waters, Taylor Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:15 PM Wednesday Night Lecture Series Summer 2014 Wednesday Night Lecture Series" St. John's College Annapolis Join us this summer for a series of informal lectures, sponsored by the Graduate Institute Wednesdays at 7:30p.m., Great Hall "On High Mountains: An Overview of Nietzsche's Perspectivism" Wednesday, June 18 JS. Black, Director of the Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Annapolis "Hume's Philosophy of Science" Wednesday, June 25 James M Mattingly, Georgetown University "On Reading Poetry Aloud: Some Lessons from Shakespeare's As You Like It" Wednesday, July 2 William Braithwaite, Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis "Machiavelli and Absolution" Wednesday, July 9 Stephen D. Wrage, United States Naval Academy "Mastery, Freedom, Friendship: Tutor and Pupil in Rousseau's Emile" Wednesday, July 16 Gianna Englert, Georgetown University "The Relationship of Art and Truth in Plato's Republic" Wednesday, July 23 Jamuna Reppert, Claremont Graduate University On the Humanity of Thucydides' Demosthenes" Wednesday, July 30 Andrea Radasanu, Northern Illinois University 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. 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Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 4 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule 2013-2014 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-2014 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2013-2014 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2013-2014 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kraus, Pamela Pepperberg, Irene M. (Irene Maxine) Wiener, Linda F., 1957- Townsend, David Braithwaite, William Link, Matthew, 1975- Peirce, William Burger, Ronna Maher, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1964- Russell, George Brogan, Michael Scott, John T. Ricks, Christopher Velkley, Richard L. Roochnik, David Harman, Graham, 1968- Harrell, Daniel M., 1961- The Aulos Ensemble Panthaki, Sherezade King William Players Goldberg, Robert Craig, Tobin Kelly, Christopher J., 1970- Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b53b4b242b4112e24ef785eae6adc0af.pdf c4cf6af8022478fdc3e7e86cfa725548 PDF Text Text LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2012-2013 Date Speaker Title August 24 2012 Ms. Pamela Kraus Dean St. John’s College Annapolis A Start on Reading August 31 Mr. Samuel Kutler Tutor and Dean Emeritus St. John’s College Annapolis Beginnings September 7 Mr. Adam Schulman Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis On Homer’s Iliad September 14 Mr. William Braithwaite Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis What is Free Speech for the Sake of? September 21 Parker Quartet Concert September 28 Mr. Peter Kalkavage Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis The Musical Universe and Mozart’s Magic Flute October 5 Long Weekend No Lecture October 12 Lecture cancelled October 19 Mr. Steven Crockett Visiting Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Paradoxes of Elections October 26 Dr. Daniel Selcer Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA Thought, Image, and the Printed Page in Early Modern Europe November 2 Mr. David Stephenson Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Melodies and Faces: A Meno Meditation November 9 All College Seminar �November 16 New York Polyphony Concert Two Sides of Love November 23 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture November 30 Mr. Greg Recco Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis The Conference in the Meadow: The Choice of Life in Plato’s Myth of Er December 7 King William Players Performance December 14 January 6 Winter Vacation No Lectures January 11 (Steiner Lecture) Professor James Wood Harvard The New Atheism and the Modern Novel January 18 Mr. Michael Grenke Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis What Will Heaven Be Like? January 25 Mr. Frederic Chiu Concert The Piano: Invention and Transformation February 1 Long Weekend No Lecture February 8 Mr. Dylan Casey Tutor St. John’s college Annapolis Surprises and Sweet Spots: On Discovery and Recognition February 15 Mr. Daniel Harrell Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Does Music Move? February 22 Mr. Jacques Duvoisin Tutor St. John’s College Santa Fe I s the Soul a City? A Question about Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics March 1 – 17 Spring Vacation No lectures March 22 Mr. James Lennox Aristotle’s Method in On Respiration: The Origins of Functional Anatomy �March 29 Mr. Mark Sinnett Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis What Does the Mathematical Physicist Know? April 3 Ralph Peters The Price of Historical Illiteracy: wishful thinking and the death of strategy April 5 Mr. Jeffrey Smith Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Sympathy’s Dimensions: Reflections on the Moral Philosophy of David Hume April 12 Mr. Phil Lecuyer Tutor St. John’s College Santa Fe Intellectual Sin April 19 Mr. Elliott Zuckerman Tutor Emeritus St. John’s College Annapolis Why I still scan verse or How to sleep in a procrustean bed April 26 King William Players Performance May 3 Reality Weekend No Lecture May 10 Commencement Weekend No Lecture (LCDR Erik S. Kristensen Lecture Series) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. 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Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 3 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule 2012-2013 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2013 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2012-2013 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kraus, Pamela, 1945- Kutler, Samuel S. Schulman, Adam Braithwaite, William Parker Quartet Kalkavage, Peter Crockett, Steven Selcer, Daniel Stephenson, David New York Polyphony (Musical group) Recco, Gregory Wood, James Grenke, Michael W. Chiu, Frederic Casey, Dylan Harrell, Daniel Duvoisin, Jacques Lennox, James Sinnett, Mark, 1963- Peters, Ralph Smith, Jeffrey LeCuyer, Phillip Zuckerman, Elliott King William Players Relation A related resource September 7, 2012. Schulman, Adam. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/53" title="The anger of Achilles, and its source">The anger of Achilles, and its source</a> (audio) September 7, 2012. Schulman, Adam. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/54" title="The anger of Achilles, and its source">The anger of Achilles, and its source</a> (typescript) September 28, 2012. Kalkavage, Peter. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/36" title="The musical universe and Mozart's Magic Flute">The musical universe and Mozart's Magic Flute</a> (audio) September 28, 2012. Kalkavage, Peter. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/37" title="The musical universe and Mozart's Magic Flute">The musical universe and Mozart's Magic Flute</a> (typescript) November 2, 2012. Stephenson, David. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/57" title="Melodies and faces">Melodies and faces</a> (audio) November 2, 2012. Stephenson, David. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/58" title="Melodies and faces">Melodies and faces</a> (typescript) November 30, 2012. Recco, Greg. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/49" title="The soul's choice of life">The soul's choice of life</a> (audio) November 30, 2012. Recco, Greg. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/51" title="The soul's choice of life">The soul's choice of life</a> (typescript) January 18, 2013. Grenke, Michael. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/28" title="What will heaven be like?">What will heaven be like?</a> (audio) January 18, 2013. Grenke, Michael. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/29" title="What will heaven be like?">What will heaven be like?</a> (typescript) February 8, 2013. Casey, Dylan. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/22" title="Surprises and sweet spots">Surprises and sweet spots</a> (audio) February 15, 2013. Harrell, Daniel. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/33" title="Does music move?">Does music move?</a> (audio) February 15, 2013. Harrell, Daniel. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/34" title="Does music move?">Does music move?</a> (typescript) March 22, 2013. Lennox, James. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/41" title="Aristotle on respiration">Aristotle on respiration</a> (audio) April 12, 2013. LeCuyer, Phillip. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/39" title="Intellectual sin">Intellectual sin</a> (audio) April 12, 2013. LeCuyer, Phillip. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/40" title="Intellectual sin">Intellectual sin</a> (typescript) April 19, 2013. Zuckerman, Elliott. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/332" title="Why I still scan verse">Why I still scan verse</a> (audio) Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/8092707f4f4b09d84c3c2ef57de46889.pdf 1b2ab47d394093b374eb5a7b5ba18216 PDF Text Text LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2011-2012 Date Speaker Title August 26, 2011 Ms. Pamela Kraus Dean St. John’s College Annapolis Thoughts on Antony and Cleopatra September 2 Ms. Fawn Trigg Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Elizabeth Bishop’s Visits to St. Elizabeths September 9 Professor Paolo Palmieri Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Galileo’s Inclined Plane Experiment September 16 Mr. William Braithwaite Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis The Supreme Court’s “Judicial Power” Under Article III September 23 Bill Charlap Jazz Trio Concert September 30 (Steiner Lecture) Professor Barry Mazur Department of Mathematics Harvard University What is the Surface Area of a Hedgehog? October 7 Long Weekend No Lecture October 14 Professor Steven Nadler Department of Philosophy University of WisconsinMadison Why was Spinoza Excommunicated? October 21 Parker String Quartet Concert October 28 All College Seminar Han Jonas essay “To Move and to Feel” November 4 Ms. Eva Brann Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Talking, Reading, Writing, Listening: A Lecture for Parents and Students November 11 Professor Josh Greene Department of Psychology Harvard University Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive Science Matters for Ethics �November 18 Mr. Jay Smith Tutor St. John’s College Santa Fe Aeneas – A Man in Arms November 25 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture December 2 Mr. Gabriel Pihas Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Dante’s Beatrice: Between Idolatry and Iconoclasm December 9 King William Players Plato’s Symposium December 16 – January Winter Vacation No Lectures January 13, 2012 Mr. Matthew Davis Tutor St. John’s College Santa Fe Is Man the Measure of All Things?: Plato’s Analysis of Relativism January 20 Ms. Mera Flaumenhaft Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis The Story of Jonah January 27 Mr. Jonathan Wells A Poetry Reading from Train Dance by Jonathan Wells February 3 Long Weekend No Lecture February 10 Nordic Voices Concert February 17 Mr. Jeffrey Smith Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis Stendhal's Prophecy for Liberal Democracy: Thoughts on The Red and the Black February 24 Professor Colin Dickson Professor of French, Emeritus Washington College Michel de Montaigne’s Singular Essays: The Man, the Book, the Legacy March 2-18 Spring Vacation No Lectures �March 23 Mr. Marcel Widzisz Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis On the Dionysiac Element in Greek Tragedy March 30 (Steiner Lecture) Professor Christoph Wolff Bach’s St. Matthew Passion Adams University Professor in Perspective: History, Department of Music Text, Music, and Theology Harvard University April 6 All College Seminar April 13 Ms. Margaret Kirby Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis (Lucretius) April 20 Mr. Louis Petrich Tutor St. John’s College Annapolis To Meet With Macbeth April 27 King William Players Play May 4 Reality Weekend No Lecture May 11 Commencement Weekend No Lecture � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts.<br /><br />For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <strong><a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a></strong>.  <br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.<br /><br />A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 3 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule 2011-2012 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-2012 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2011-2012 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2011-2012 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Relation A related resource September 30, 2011. Mazur, Barry. <a title="What is the surface area of a hedgehog?" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/42">What is the surface area of a hedgehog?</a> (audio) November 4, 2011. Brann, Eva T. H. <a title="Talking, reading, writing, listening: a lecture for parents and students" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/12">Talking, reading, writing, listening: a lecture for parents and students</a> (audio) November 11, 2011. Greene, Josh. <a title="Beyond point-and-shoot morality : why cognitive science matters for ethics" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/27">Beyond point-and-shoot morality : why cognitive science matters for ethics</a> (audio) December 2, 2011. Pihas, Gabriel. <a title="Dante's Beatrice : between idolatry and iconoclasm" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/48">Dante's Beatrice : between idolatry and iconoclasm</a> (audio) January 13, 2012. Davis, Matthew. <a title="Is man the measure of all things? : Plato's analysis of relativism" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/25">Is man the measure of all things? : Plato's analysis of relativism </a>(audio) January 27, 2012. Wells, Jonathan. <a title="Poetry reading from &quot;Train Dance&quot;" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/59">Poetry reading from "Train Dance"</a> (audio) April 13, 2012. Kirby, Margaret. <a title="Lucretius on the nature of things" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/60">Lucretius on the nature of things</a> (audio) April 13, 2012. Kirby, Margaret. <a title="Lucretius on the nature of things" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/38">Lucretius on the nature of things</a> (typescript) April 20, 2012. Petrich, Louis. <a title="To meet with Macbeth" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/47">To meet with Macbeth</a> (audio) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kraus, Pamela Trigg, Fawn Palmieri, Paolo Braithwaite, William Bill Charlap Jazz Trio Mazur, Barry Nadler, Steven M., 1958- Parker String Quartet Brann, Eva T. H. Greene, Josh Smith, Jay Pihas, Gabriel Davis, Matthew Flaumenhaft, Mera J. Wells, Jonathan Nordic Voices (Musical group) Smith, Jeffrey Dickson, Colin Widzisz, Marcel Andrew, 1972- Wolff, Christoph Kirby, Margaret Petrich, Louis King William Players Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/31438cda32a0ba15ba3787750c7ab5b7.pdf 4fa4d71cf3c5de63b4d92c95a3260e63 PDF Text Text S!JOHN'S College LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2010-2011 (Revised 2/24/ II) Date S peal<er A ugust 27, 2010 Ms. Pamela Kraus Dean St. John ' s College Annapoli s The Beginning of the Beginning: Reflections on Cartesian Method September 3 Mr. Daniel Harrell Tutor St. John' s College Annapolis Does Beauty Have a Place in Liberal Education September 10 Mr. James Carey Tutor St. Jo hn 's College Santa Fe Some Reflections on the Phenomenon of the Beautiful September 17 Mr. William Braithwaite Tutor St. John's College Annapolis On Read ing the U. S. Constitution as a Great Book September 24 (Homecoming) Mr. Laurence Berns Tutor Emeritus St. John ' s Col lege Annapolis Dialectic, Virtue and Recollection in Plato' s October l Mr. Peter Pesic Tutor St. John 's College Santa Fe Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number October 8 Long Weekend No Lecture October 15 Mr. Peter Kalkavage Tutor St. John 's College Annapolis Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles: Hegel's Inve11ed World October 22 Mr. Ri chard McCombs Tutor St. John ' s Col lege San ta Fe An Introduction to the Read ing of Kierkegaard October 29 Awadagin Pratt Piano Conceit- Music of Liszt, Schumann, Chopin November 5 All College Seminar No Lecture Title ANNAPOL I S · SANTA FE OFFICE OF THE DEAN P.O. Box 28oo ANNAPOLIS , MARYLAND 2I404 4I0-626-25II FAX 4w-295-6937 www.sjca.edu Me no �November 12 (Parents Weekend) Mr. Wilfred McClay The Tocquevillean Moment November 19 The Western Wind Vocal Sextet The Happy Journey: An American Music Celebration November 26 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture December 3 Professor Joan Crist College of St. Joseph Chicago Bonaventure: A Better Theologian Than Thomas Aquinas 11 December 10 King William Players "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe" December 17January 9, 20 II Winter Vacation No Lectures January 14, 20 II Mr. S. Ramachandran The Value of Life January 21 Mr. Lauren Brubaker Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe Campus Wealth, Virtue and Corruption: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy January 28 Professor Christian Moevs Notre Dame The Metaphysics of Dante's Commedia February 4 Long Weekend No Lecture Ms. Patricia Locke The Thousand and One Nights of Marcel Proust February 11 Tutor St. John's College Annapolis February 18 Parker String Quartet Conce11 February 25 All College Seminar Nietzsche, Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense March 4-20 Spring Vacation No Lectures March 25 Barbara Hanning The City College of NY How Opera Began (and Why It Began in Florence) April 1 Professor Doug Casson St. Olaf College Pity as a Civic Vir1ue in Sophocles' Philoctetes April 8 Professor Marina McCoy Boston College Pity as a Civic Virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes �April 15 Professor Diana Schaub Loyola University Baltimore Learning to Love Lincoln: Frederick Douglass's Journey from Grievance To Gratitude April22 Mr. Dylan Casey Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Fields and Pa1ticles and Being April29 King William Players Performance of Eumenides (performed in ancient Greek) May6 Reality Weekend No Lecture May 13 Commencement Weekend No Lecture � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts.<br /><br />For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <strong><a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a></strong>.  <br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.<br /><br />A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 3 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule 2010-2011 (Revised 2/24/11) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-2011 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2010-2011 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2010-2011 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Relation A related resource September 3, 2010. Harrell, Daniel. <a title="Does beauty have a place in liberal education?" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/32">Does beauty have a place in liberal education?</a> (audio) October 15, 2010. Kalkavage, Peter. <a title="Principles of motion and the motion of principles : Hegel's inverted world" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/35">Principles of motion and the motion of principles : Hegel's inverted world</a> (audio) January 21, 2011. Brubaker, Lauren. <a title="Wealth, virtue and corruption : Adam Smith's moral philosophy" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/20">Wealth, virtue and corruption : Adam Smith's moral philosophy</a> (audio) March 25, 2011. Hanning, Barbara. <a title="How opera began : and why it began in Florence" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/30">How opera began : and why it began in Florence</a> (audio) April 1, 2011. Casson, Douglas. <a title="Stabilizing currency : Locke on money, morality, and natural law" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/23">Stabilizing currency : Locke on money, morality, and natural law</a> (audio) [Schedule lists incorrect title] April 8, 2011. McCoy, Marina. <a title="Pity as a civic virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/43">Pity as a civic virtue in Sophocles' Philoctetes</a> (audio) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kraus, Pamela Harrell, Daniel Carey, James Braithwaite, William Berns, Laurence, 1928- Pesic, Peter Kalkavage, Peter McCombs, Richard Pratt, Awadagin McClay, Wilfred M. The Western Wind Vocal Sextet Crist, Joan Frances Ramachandran, S. Brubaker, Lauren Moevs, Christian Locke, Patricia M. Parker String Quartet Hanning, Barbara Russano, 1940- Casson, Douglas McCoy, Marina, 1968- Schaub, Diana Casey, Dylan King William Players Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d3d681ef2ba25f42d3a917fef8b5f100.pdf 74ad4e15b29d90800ef68eba108fe504 PDF Text Text STJOHN'S LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE FIRST SEMESTER 2009-2010 (Revised Dece mber II , 2009) College ANNA POLI S • SANTA P£ August 28 Mr. Michael Dink Dean St. John's College Annapolis Mol iere's Le Misanthrope September 4 All College Sem inar Percy Shelley's '1\Defense of Poetry' September I I Professor Roderick Hills New York U ni vers ity Schoo l of Law Alcohol, Guns, and Federa lism: Two Case Studies on the Dangers Of Nationalizing the Culture Wars September 15 (Steiner) Dr. Elie Wiesel An Afternoon with Eli W iesel September 18 E lliott Fisk Conceit (Gu itar) September 25 Mr. Pedro Martinez-F raga Miam i, FL Love, Romance, and Law in Don Quixote October 2 Mr. Samuel Kutle r Tutor St. John's Coll ege Annapolis Poetry and Mathematics October 9 Long Weekend No Lecture October 16 Professor Patricia Fagan U niversity of Windsor W indsor, Ontario Canada The Anxiety of Democratic Revolution : The Greek Hero ic in Plutarch's Life ofCoriolanus October 23 (Steiner) Professor Mitchell Mi ller Vassar Coll ege Poughkee ps ie, NY Odysseus as Poet as Philosopher: Reflections on the Great Wanderings October 30 Anonymous 4 Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas, Music of Thi1teenth-Century Spain November 6 Mr. Gary B01jesson Tutor St. John's College Annapo lis Spirited Friends: On Dogs and Friendship OFFICE OF THE DEAN P.O. Box 28oo ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21404 410-626-25II FAX 410-295-6937 www. sjca. edu �November 13 Mr. Yannis Simonides Plato's Apology: A dramatic Performance November 20 Professor Sybol Cook Anderson St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's City, MD Revisiting Hegefs Dialectic of Desire and Recognition November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture December 4 Professor Danielle Allen University of Chicago Chicago, IL Why Plato Wrote December 11 King William Players Shakespeare's Twelfth Night December 18January 10, 2010 Winter Vacation No Lectures �S!JOHN'S College LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE SECOND SEMESTER 2009-2010 (Revised April 2, 20 I 0) January 15 Mr. David Stephenson Tutor St. John's College Annapolis The Novefs Moral Playground January 22 Mr. Jeffrey Smith Tutor St. Jo hn's College Annapolis A ltruism in the Eyes of an Antichrist: On Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey January 29 Ms . Mary Kinzie Northwestern University Writing Long: The Shift Toward the Long Poem in Frank Bidm1 and Others February 5 Long Weekend No Lecture Februmy 12 All College Sem inar Ecclesiastes February 19 Parker String Quar1et Concer1 February 26 Mr. Joseph Smith Tutor St. John's Coll ege Santa Fe Kanfs Rational Being as Moral Being March 5-2 1 Spring Vacation No Lectures March 26 Brother Donald Mansir St. Mary's College Cal ifornia The D ialogue Between Faith and Reason: A Qur'anic Strategy for Governance April2 Mr. E lliott Zuckerman Tutor E meritus St. John's College Annapolis Falstaff and C leopatra April9 Mr. Paul Ludwig Tutor St. John's College Annapolis What is Agape? ANNAPOLIS • SANTA FE OFFICE OF THE DEAN P.O. Box 2.8oo ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 2.1404 410-62.6-2.511 FAX 4I0-2.95-6937 www. sjca. edu �April 16 No Lecture April 23 Mr. Jacques Duvoisin Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe The Paradox of Pity in Rousseatis Second Discourse April30 King William Players Machiavellfs Mandragola May? Reality Weekend No Lecture May 14 Commencement Weekend No Lecture � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts.<br /><br />For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <strong><a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a></strong>.  <br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.<br /><br />A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 4 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule First Semester 2009-2010 (Revised December 11, 2009) & Second Semester 2009-2010 (Revised April 2, 2010) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-2010 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2009-2010 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2009-2010 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dink, Michael Hills, Roderick Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016 Fisk, Elliott Martínez-Fraga, Pedro J. Kutler, Samuel Fagan, Patricia Miller, Mitchell Anonymous 4 (Musical group) Borjesson, Gary Simonides, Yannis Anderson, Sybol Cook Allen, Danielle Stephenson, David Smith, Jeffrey Kinzie, Mary Parker String Quartet Smith, Joseph Mansir, Brother Donald Zuckerman, Elliott Ludwig, Paul Duvoisin, Jacques King William Players Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/2576b8282de15fc8a731398b0e3f7851.pdf f4c3dcd5761e96d26ab0edf36bc71f51 PDF Text Text S!JOHN'S College LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2008-2009 (Revised 12/19/08) August 29 Mr. Michael Dink Dean St. John's College Annapolis Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Milton's Paradise Lost September 5 All College Seminar Emerson September 12 Professor Peter Edelman Georgetown University Law Center The Constitution: A Living Document September 19 Mr. David Townsend Tutor St. John's College Annapolis William Blake's Flourishing Vision September 26 Professor Steve Morse Solid Progress: How Five Regular Solids Turned into Seventy-Five October 3 Parker String Quartet Concert October 10 Long Weekend No Lecture October 17 Dr. Thomas L. Short Can Philosophy be a Science? October 24 Professor Noah Feldman Harvard Law School The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State October 31 Professor Walter Nicgorski University of Notre Dame In Defense of Cicero November? Mr. Michael Grenke Tutor St. John's College Annapolis The Question of Questions November 14 Professor Robert Bernasconi University of Memphis Universal isms Partially Applied : On Locke's and Kant's Raci sms November 21 Mr. Alan Pichanick Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Sophrosune as WholeMindedness: Socratic Self-Knowledge in Plato's Charm ides AN N APO L IS • SA NTA FE OFFICE OF THE DEAN P.O. B ox zBoo ANNAPOLI S, M ARYLAN D 2I404 4ro-6z6-zs:n FAX 4I0 -295-6937 www. ~jca. edu �November28 Thanksgiving Holiday No Lecture December 5 Professor Jonathan Lear University of Chicago Plato's Cave: The Role of Allegory in Philosophy December 12 KWP Production Racine's Phedre December 19January 11,2009 Winter Vacation No Lectures January 16 Mr. Jonathan Tuck Tutor St. John's College Armapolis Gargantua's Games January 23 Professor Steven Lubin Cornell University Mozart's Tonal Pathways January 30 Ms. Joan Silver Tutor St. John's College Armapolis On Same and Other, Image and Being in Flannery 0' Connor's Story with the Unspeakable Name February 6 Long Weekend No Lecture February 13 Ms. Cecile Licad Piano Concert February 20 All College Seminar Nietzsche's The Problem of Socrates February 27 Professor Christia Mercer Columbia University The Weirdness and Beauty of Leibniz's Philosophy or Why You ARE God March 2-22 Spring Vacation No Lectures March27 Mr. Jeffrey Smith Tutor St. John's College Armapolis Rousseau's Republic of Desire April3 Professor Burt Hopkins Seattle University The Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Symposium: Socrates' Initiation into the Arithmos of Eros AprillO Professor Ryan Tweney Bowling Green State University From Invisibles to Infinitesimals: Faraday's Intuitive Calculus �Aprill7 Mr. Henry Higuera Tutor St. John's College Annapolis Multiplication Ancient and Modem: Sorting Out the Shifts in Meaning Multiplication April24 Mr. Stefan Jackiw Violin Conceri May I King William Players MayS Reality Weekend No Lecture May !5 Commencement Weekend No Lecture � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts.<br /><br />For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <strong><a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a></strong>.  <br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection.<br /><br />A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 3 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Office of the Dean Title A name given to the resource Lecture/Concert Schedule 2008-2009 (Revised 12/19/08) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-2009 Description An account of the resource Schedule of lectures and concerts for the 2008-2009 Academic Year. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lecture Schedule 2008-2009 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dink, Michael Edelman, Peter Townsend, David Morse, Steve Parker String Quartet Short, Thomas L. Feldman, Noah, 1970- Nicgorski, Walter Grenke, Michael W. Bernasconi, Robert Pichanick, Alan Lear, Jonathan Tuck, Jonathan Lubin, Steven Silver, Joan Licad, Cecile, 1961- Mercer, Christia Smith, Jeffrey Hopkins, Burt Tweney, Ryan D. Higuera, Henry, 1952- Jackiw, Stefan King William Players Relation A related resource January 16, 2009. Tuck, Jonathan. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/3801" title="Gargantua's games">Gargantua's games</a> (audio) Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/e6015cf6aee2a3214e83c8c7bfa13ac0.pdf 6899f88d5891b764167b442e820e296a PDF Text Text STJOHN'S LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE 2007-2008 (Updated 3/26/08) College August 24 Mr. Michael Dink Dean St. John's College Annapolis "Rhetoric and Liberal Education" August 31 Mr. Louis Petrich Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "The Questions of Lear and Cordelia" September 7 Professor Julie Fiez University of Pittsburgh "Agonizing Over a Decision: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About the Relationship Between Thought and Emotion?" September 14 Mr. Michael Grenke Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "The Costs o f Civilization" September 18 (Tuesday Afternoon) Professor Deborah Malamud New York University School of Law "Affirmative Action Today: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Constitution" September 21 All College Seminar September 28 Professor David McNeill University of Essex "Knowledge, Ignorance and Imitation in Book 10 of Plato 's Rep ublic" October 5 Long Weekend No Lecture October 12 Ms. Janet Dougherty Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "Cartesian Certainty, or Awakening from the Dreams of a Slave" October 19 Professor Angela DiBennedetto Villanova University "Cell Death" October 26 Ms. Claudia Honeywell Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "Logos and Power in Book One of Herodotus' Histmy" November 2 "Cafe Zimmennarm" Baroque Orchestra ANNAPOLIS • SANTA FE OFFICE OF THE DEAN P.O. Box z8oo ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 2.I404 4I0-62.6-2.5II FAX 4I0-2.95-6937 www. ~jca. edu �November9 Professor Mario Livia Senior Astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute "The Golden Ratio" November 16 Ambassador Andrew Young "Race in America Today" November 30 Brendan Lasell, Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "'Leibniz's New Gemnetry'' December? King William Players "The Tempest" January 11 Professor Alan Levine American University "The Idea of America in European Political Thought: 1492-9/11 January 18 Professor Thee Smith Emory University "The Gospel at Colonus" January 25 Professor Corinne Painter Washtenaw Community College "Capturing the Sophist in the Space of Non-Being" February 8 "Pomerium" Chapel Choir: "Mannerist Music of the Renaissance" (works by Marenzio, Giaches de Wert, Monteverdi, Gesualdo) February 15 Mr. Robert Druecker Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "'YouAreThat!': The 'Upanishads' Read Through Westem Eyes" February 22 All College Seminar March 21 Professor Mitchell Miller Vassar College '"Making New Gods'?: Reflections on Plato's Symposium " March 28 Ms. Ingrid Marsoner Piano "Bach, Goldberg Variations" April4 Mr. Adam Schulman Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "Self-knowledge and Moral Seriousness in Jane Austen's Pride and Pr~judice" �April II Mr. Chester Burke, Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "Searching for 'Being' in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Field" Aprill8 Mr. Matt Caswell, Tutor St. John's College Annapolis "Kant on Evil and Human Nature" April25 King William Players Arcadia � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Malamud, Deborah McNeill, David Dougherty, Janet DiBennedetto, Angela Honeywell, Claudia Café Zimmermann (Musical group) Livio, Mario, 1945- Young, Andrew Levine, Alan Smith, Thee Painter, Corinne Michelle Pomerium Chapel Choir Druecker, Robert Miller, Mitchell Marsoner, Ingrid Schulman, Adam Burke, Chester Caswell, Matthew King William Players Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/905a24c0f76c81129a3bf1e766e514ca.pdf ee2c7bb3f779e5da7fa2a3bc6021390f PDF Text Text S!JOHN'S College ANN A POLlS • SANTA FE LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE FIRST SEMESTER- 2006-2007 (August 24, 2006 - conected copy) August 25, 2006 Mr. Michael Dink Dean St. John's College " In the Eyes of Others, Part II: Rousseau and Smith" September 1 All College Seminar Montaigne's essay "On Friendship" September 8 Mr. Andre Barbera Tutor St. John's College "Is There Great Jazz?" September 15 Mr. L. Harvey Poe Annapolis, MD "On the Roots of the Political Philosophy of the Constitution" September 22 Mr. J. Walter Sterling IV Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "The Visibility of Dying in Homer's Iliacf' September 29 Mr. Samuel Kutler Tutor Emeritus St. John's College "The Republic of Letters and the Republic of Numbers" OFFICE OF THE DEAN P. 0 . Box z8oo ANNAPOLIS, MARYJ, AND 21404 410-626-25II FAX 4I0-295-6937 www.sjca. edu October 6 Long Weekend No Lecture October 13 Mr. Jonathan Tuck Tutor St. John's College "Baudelaire's Swan Song" October 20 Professor Paul Bagley Loyola College Baltimore, MD "On Why Spinoza's Teaching in the Tractatus Is Necessarily Theologico-Political" October 27 Professor James A. Arieti Hampden-Sydney College Virginia "Achilles, the Moral Pioneer" November 3 Mr. Andreas Haefliger: Concert Piano Sonatas of Beethoven November 10 Professor David Branning Trinity College "Quantum Mechanics" November 17 Mr. Frank Pagano Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "Masks of the Naked Animal: Herodotus on Shame and Ci vi I ization" �December I Mr. John Tomarchio Tutor St. John's College "Aquinas and the Object Proper of Metaphysics" December 8 King William Players Midsummer Night's Dream �S!JOHN'S LECTURE/CONCERT SCHEDULE SECOND SEMESTER- 2006-2007 College Januaty 12, 2007 Professor Kirk Sanders University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign "Epicurean Emotions" January 19 The Aulos Ensemble Handel 's "Acis and Galatea" January 26 Mr. Joseph Smith Tutor St. John's College Santa Fe "The Diffidence of Reason- A Reading of the Conclusion of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise" February 9 Ms. Ange Mlinko Croton-On-Hudson, NY Modern Poetry February 16 (Steiner Lecture) Professor Camille Paglia University of the Arts in Philadelphia "Form and Figure in Greek Art: Ideal Beauty, Individualism, and Political Space in Greek Architecture and Sculpture" Februaty 23 Professor James Nonis Howard University "The Negro Spiritual: A Choral Art Form" March 23 Concett Talich String Quartet March 30 Prof Christina von Nolcken University of Chicago "Another "Lollere in the wynd"? Chaucer, his Miller, and Nicholas' Door" April6 All College Seminar April 13 Mr. George Russell Tutor St. John' s College "Freedom and Equality in Lincoln's Understanding of the American Polity'' April20 Mr. Jason Tipton Tutor St. John's College "Man's Emergence from the State ofNature: An Account Founded on Darwin's Discussion of Sexual Selection" April28 King William Players 17te Good Doctor MayS Reality No Lecture ANNAPOL I S • SANTA PE OFFICE OF THE DEAN P. 0. Box 2.8oo ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 2.I404 4I0-62.6-2.5rr FAX 4I0-295-6937 www.sjca. edu � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. 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Tuck, Jonathan. <a href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/3797">Baudelaire's swan song</a> (typescript) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dink, Michael Barbera, André Poe, L. Harvey (Luke Harvey) Sterling IV, J. Walter Kutler, Samuel Tuck, Jonathan Bagley, Paul Arieti, James A. Haefliger, Andreas Branning, David Pagano, Frank N. Tomarchio, John Sanders, Kirk R., 1966- The Aulos Ensemble Smith, Joseph Mlinko, Ange Paglia, Camille, 1947- Norris, James von Nolcken, Christina Russell, George Tipton, Jason A. King William Players Friday night lecture Lecture schedule https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a4275500f36cd16d9b13e585a2305b37.pdf 4c9baf08af78bec734de11f3240a685c PDF Text Text ����������������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An ennobling innocence : the founding of Socrates' Republic Description An account of the resource Transcript of a lecture given on August 2, 1995 by David Levine as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Levine, David Lawrence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-08-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Plato. Republic Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 24000405 Graduate Institute https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/95696876ebdbc5a675af4d563e36b1f2.pdf 1379b77c8df641a30acff7ebf9dc2504 PDF Text Text ����� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Speeches, presentations, and other lectures Description An account of the resource Speeches, presentations, and other lectures given at St. John's College. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 5 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "I hate books" or making room for learning Description An account of the resource Transcript of the Graduate Institute convocation address given on June 15, 1997 by David Levine in Santa Fe, NM. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Levine, David Lawrence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997-06-15 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Emile. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Four sides of a cube : or, why a certain question must be asked again and again Description An account of the resource Transcript of a lecture given on August 31, 2001 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 18 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A community of learning... in a land of Cartesians? Description An account of the resource Transcript of a lecture given on August 30, 2002 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Levine, David Lawrence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Plato United States -- Intellectual life Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 24000652 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b7e04bd419d83ac6518790016c792369.pdf f427e7f792841043bfc56865460d933f PDF Text Text ihno(^ David Lawrence Le\ ine **/!/ the Very Center ofthe Plenitude" Frida\ Niaht Dean's Lecture, Ausust 29. 2003 Page 1 14.\ *'At the Very Center of the Plenitude^ Goethe^s GrandAttempt to Overcome the 18'^ Century' Or How Freshman Laboratory Saved Goethe From the General Sickness ofhis Age ""Nature has become the fundamental word that designates essential relations...to beings." Heidegger^ "We have failed to restore to the human spirit its ancient right to comeface toface with nature." Goethe"* "Goethe teaches coin-age...ihzi the disadvantages of an\' epoch exist only to the fainthearted." Emerson^ 1. Incidental Thoughts, Fniitfiil Life: To everyone: Welcome! To our freshman in particular a special Welcome! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, we know him first as a poet and playwright—seniors will read his Faust ne.xt week. Yet there is another Goethe that is less well loiown but who, from his own point ofview, isofequal, if not greater consequence,^ the Goethe who spent his life studying nature—botan\'. zoolog}', geologv', meteorolog>', theory of color—^and is known, in this regard, for his work in morpholog\'. I would like to speak about this lesser known Goethe tonight. There are two subtitles to this evening*s lecture "At the Very Center of the Plenitude." The first is given to it by Friedrich Nietzsche, the second. m\- own curious invention. The first is "Goethe's Grand Attempt to Overcome the 18"' Centur}-." As we will see. from Nietzsche's perspective Goethe was a philosophical thinker of the highest order who inherited, as we all do, ideas from previous generations and thinkers, ideas that he thought were ill conceived and needed to be rethought. Thanks to these ideas, we had become, according to Goethe, "blind with seeing eyes." Similarly the second subtitle. "How Freshman Laboratory Saved Goethe from the General Sickness ofhis Age." This clearly reflects our unique studies here at St. John's. Here too we see something of greater moment than we might first have seen. Here we wall have a chance to see that his life work studying nature—^as seen in the paper that we read in freshman laboratory—has a far greater significance than just'science.' great though this is in its own right.^ For Goethe the smdy of namre was the necessary antidote to a growing tendency—"sickness'" he called it—^that needed to be countered for the sake of our lives and health. n U We have our work cut out for us this evening. " .LM? Lcc ! •-! ^ •i St. John's Colfe^"^ - Meem Library �Da^ id Lawrence Levine "At the Very Center of the Plenitude^" Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 2 14x Goethe's thinking, though philosophical, is not s\"stematic. and that means there's no one place where his deepest thinking is to be found. Just the opposite, his profoundest thought is to be disco\ ered throughout his works, and not just in his major works, but minor ones too, often just jottings here and there, on slips of paper, in the margins of books, the comers of newspapers, in brief letters, in short wherever occasion found a suitable surface for pen and ink to secure for a time his emergent thoughts. These were often then collected into "maxims and reflections." sometimes inserted as the thinking of one of the characters of his novels, sometimes collected under his own name. These occasional thoughts will provide much of the material for tonight's talk. But incidental thoughts are not necessariK" insignificant thoughts.' Not unlike flotsam and jetsam, thoughts appear throughout our da\". Are these daih' musings 'distractions of the moment' or 'disclosures of moment'? Such irrepressible thoughtftilness and imagination gives added dimension to the thin linearity of time. A da\' punctuated b>' the wondrous, sparked by light, is not just another day. DaiK^ discoveiy* is meat not spice. nourishmenL not just flavoring. And its joy is invigorating. The mundane is thereb>" transformed. Thinking happens. One such collection of thoughts is a book of selected conversations by his secretary Johann Peter Eckermann, a man of no small talent, who took it upon himself to record for posterit} personal con\ersations he had \%ith his world famous employer during the last nine >ears of his life. These are intermittenth* and imperfecth' recorded, often self-conscious, sometimes seem contrived, and are frequenth' without a definite outcome. There we find observations about passing acquaintances, deliberations about the wine list for the evening dinner, plans for journeys to be taken, personal estimates about famous and not so famous authors and statesmen. latter->'ear reflections and regrets about his youthful writings, plans for the reconstruction of the local theater that had burned down, conversation with his patron the Grand Duke of Weimar, observations about his wife and children, expressions of hope and disappointment about friends, frustrations about works of his that had been overlooked or were under appreciated. But throughout the rich array, there emerge as well recurrent themes and persistent questions of consequence. The same author mentioned above. Nietzsche, sa\s the following: "Apart from Goethe's [own] writings, and in particular Goethe's conversations M'ith Eckermann, the best German book there is. what is there realK" of German prose literature that it would be worthwhile to read o\'er and o\er again?'"'^' 'The best German book there is." worth "reading over and over again"? Hardly on the face of it. Though perhaps prone to hyperbole and "philosophizing with a hammer,'* Nietzsche was not prone to misrepresentation. What could he mean b\ such e.xaggerated praise? Perhaps what is remarkable is not the book per se. but what is portrayed therein? Perhaps what is notable is not its ultimate literaiy value—^the book is not on our program—^but the attempt to record a life that is in no wa>' ordinaiy? Indeed, even through Eckermann's eyes we glimpse new possibilities for a human life that aspires to what is extraordinary, a fullness of possibilit\" rarely seen. We glimpse a paradigm of a full\- engaged, e\ er creati\e. wholesome fecundit>. In shorL we see philosophy as a way of being in the world. not as a book bound between leather covers. 2. '•^Everything Nowadays is Ultrai In 1825. late in life. Goethe wrote a letter to his friend, the composer Zelter in which he reflected on the character of life as it had come to be lived in their lifetime: �Da\ id Lawrence Levine *'At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'" Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 3 14x Everything nowadays is ultra, [he \\rites] eren thing is being transcended continually in thought as well as in action. .Vo one hw^vs himselfany longer, no one can grasp the element in which he Ih es and works or the materials that he handles. Pure simplicity is out of the question; of simplifiers we have enough. Young people are stirred up much too early in life and then carried away in the whirl of the times. Wealth and rapidit>" are what the world admires.... Railways, quick mails, steamships, and every possible kind of rapid communication are what the educated world seeks but it only oxer-educates itself and thereby persists in its mediocrity. It is. moreover, the result of universalization that a mediocre culture [then] becomes [the] common [culture].... He then adds ruefully: "We and perhaps a few others \\ ill be the last of an epoch that will not soon return."" According to Goethe, a radical transformation of our wa\' of being has taken place: 1) a change in the character of human thought and action. 2) a change in our knowledge of ourselves, 3) a change in our sense of place, and finally, 4) a change in the character and efficacy of education. "Exeiything noM cidays is ultra " As earh' as the beginning of the nineteenth century, what was coming to characterize human life—^and thereb\" change the face and depth of human experience—^Nvas the speed [die Voloziferishe] at which life was lived, a hitherto unheard of, dizzying and disorienting pace suchthat \oung people—^but not only—could only be caught up in "the whir! of the times." "Being caught up" means living some other life than one's own, being inauthentic. "Railways, quick mails, steamships:" Ever faster communication changes the lived dimensions of life: time quickens, distance collapses. There is no delaj- between an event and its hearing. "It's as if we were right there.'* A leisureK^ walk is replaced by a carriage ride, thereafter b> a train ride, then a jet plane, and now b\"... a transporter (or at least in our imaginations). The \\ ait for "news" from the pon}' e.xpress. a telegram, a phone call, a pager continues to shrink. Our e-mail pings or our blackberry vibrates: we hear about an event "as it happens" no matter the distance. Life, in short, is lived in fast forward. Goethe asks "Who can possibly keep up with the demands of an exorbitant presentand that at ma.\imum speed?"'" This matter of life's ever accelerating pace in not a philosophically indifferent one for Goethe. "The greatest misfortune [L'nheil] of our time.'* he says elsewhere, "which let's no thing come to fruition, is that one moment consumes the next,"^'" While the speeding up of things may assist us in "keeping informed" and "staying in touch," it also subtracts from other essential dimensions once thought definitive of human life. It makes certain things more difficult, if not impossible, specificalh" those things that take time, for e.\ample, those that require slow assimilation and acclimation. abo\e all human learning and experience. It takes time cnxay from thoughtful reflection and other possibilities of human carefulness. For time and leisure (skole) are tlie proper gestational home of reflection, philosophy and human care. We hear too that our thought processes are affected: "e\'eiything is transcended in thought [as well as in action]." We have somehow been made to think different!)'. We live at a new level of abstraction, beyond the immediate, simple. ob\ ious. primary world, such that w-e no longer e\ en understand "the element in which we live." What could this mean? �Da\ id Lawrence Levine Page 4 '^'At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude^'' Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14.\ And most curious of all. Goethe sa\s ""No one knows himself an}- longer.** How is this even possible? Elsewhere he says: "Learning fails to bring advancement now that the world is caught up in such a rapid turnover: by the time }ou ha\e managed to take due note of eveiything. vou have lost your Are we not alwa\ s the same no matter our circumstances? Education too is thereb}- affected. It is suggested that we might even become "overeducated,"' mis-educated, that education itself has become, somehow, distorted. He reflects: "For almost a centuiy now the humanities have no longer influenced the minds of men engaged in them."'" Rather than distinction, we ha\e mediocrity: rather than a high culture, we have an ordinary one. What then of the rewards of "perspective." "balance" and "e.\cellence" once thought the outcome of an ennoblingeducation? The "whirl of the times" has only accelerated many, many fold since 1825. The author could not possibl}- have en\ isioned the pace at which we live our lives today. To be sure, on first hearing, one might be inclined to take the above obsenations as the grumbling of a man seeing the world pass him by (empt}- biographism). We might however, also take this as notice to think better about the character our li\ es in our ultra-ultra world. 3. "The General Sickness of the Agef "Life is our lot rather than reflection."'^ Goethe's exclamation that "nowadays... no one knows himself any longer" clearly needs further consideration. How could this be? Don't we kno\^• ourseh es? Throughout the modem disciplines—the ph}sical sciences, histon', even poetn- and literature—^was a growing trend, evident to Goethe, to what he called "subjecti>ity." Juniors and ' seniors will remember, in the Discourse on Method^ Descartes' identification of the "ego" as the primordial truth about which we alone can be immediatel}' "certain." The immediate evidence of this self-intuition then pro\ides the standard of truth for all else, now thought true only if "clearh and distincth" concei\ able to us. Odd though this ma}- sound, this new self-certaint}- leads to our world being reconceived as "the external world.'* about which we can now have only a small measure of certainly- and that of its radically stripped dow n mathematical qualities. To be sure, this made a "modem science" of such a world possible, yet it gave us a new- definition and sense of self that was problematic.' This excessivel}- polarized and reduced view- of the ego as "subject"—understood as standing "o\-er against"'^ some bare objective world—is what Goethe meant b\" "subjectivit}:'* polarized, withdrawn, exiled to its own interior world, and thereby alienated from an}- sense ofworld in which it could feel itself integrated or at home.'^ For Goethe the consequences of this influential (na}-, fateful) redefinition of self are now here better seen than in his own vocation, poetry-. We have all heard the caricamre of the modem "romantic" poet: a suffering recluse, retreating to his Paris garret, whose on!}- truth is his inner pain. But for Goethe there is. unfortunate!}-, an element of truth to be found therein: He observ es: "All the poets [toda}-] write as if the}- were ill and the whole wwld were a lazaretto [leper colon}-]. The}- all speak of the woe and misery- of this earth and the joy of a hereafter: all are discontented.... This." he adds, "is a real abuse of poetiy....""® "I attach no value to [such] poems ....'*"' From Goethe* s perspecti\'e, "whoe%-er descends deep down into himself will always realize he is onK half a being...,"" and being half will discover there limited resources for creati\-it}-. "...A subjecti\e nature has soon talked out his little internal material and is at last _ �David Lawrence Le\ ine Page 5 "Af the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'' Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14x ruined by mannerism [that is. excessive affectation],"" he notes regretfulh'. ""Such people look at once within: they are so occupied b>' what is revoi\ ing in themselves, [that] they are like a man in passion, who passes his dearest friends on the street without seeing them."""* With reduced openness to the world around them. the\" have become "blind with seeing eyes." This excessive one-sidedness. and consequent risk of self-absorption. Goethe named "the general sickness of the present age [heinigen Zeif]f" and led Doctor von Goethe to his famous diagnosis: ""What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.'"^^ Sick? Unhealthy, unproductive, foundation less, and ultimately untruthful. We lose our fullest selves. Goethe thus found himself standing at the point of the di^•ide where, for all our efforts to think about each separateh". subject and object were being ever more pulled apart. This experiential breach was of fundamental concern because, when either is over-polarized—^when the soul is diminished as an isolated, worldless ego (psyche), res cogitans or when the Morld is diminished as external. e\ en foreign, barren res extensa—^both subject and object are diminished for want of their natural correlate. If I ma\' indulge in a somewhat dramatic image: like a man standing between two horses pulling him apart, Goethe found that—^for the sake of health"'—^he had everything he could handle to keep himself and the world whole."^ Goethe himself thus resisted being "caught up in his time:" he was not a "romantic." As he said. "m>- tendencies were opposed to those of my time, which were wholly subjective: while in m> objective efforts. I stood alone to m>' disad\ antage.""' His "objective efforts'? How could he resist the subjective tendencN? 4. "The Element in which we Live:'^ In all natural things there is something wonderfuL... So we should approach the inquiry...without aversion, knowing that in all of them there is something natural and beautiful.. Aristotle'® Surprising though it ma>' seem to some, the answer is nature. Thus it is apt that the Goethe we first meet is not the poet but the Goethe who spent his whole life researching 'the element in which we live." that is researching into nature. It is this "objective" involvement that saved him from the excesses of his—and our—^time. nor to mention giving him "the most wonderful moments of his life."*' So. what is nature?.... OK. a simpler question.... what is a plant? Which grammatical form best names its being, a noun or a \ erb (or a gerund, a verbal noun)? By plant do we intend a static state or an acti\ it}' alive with change, something that has grown or some process of growth?"'" Clearh' we need to name hotb. form that is also in the process ofself-formation. **G^o^^th is the point of life."'" For us here in the Southwest, sumac, oak. aspen, pinon. mallow and mullen are different kinds of plants. The principle at work is the same throughout the stages of the life cycle of a mallow, for instance, from seedling to flowering. fructil\ ing plant. Hence we name it one thing— a mallow—despite all these various stages and differing formal manifestations.'"* But it is not onlv this individual plant that is before us. so is the species "mallow." and e\ en further so is the kingdom "plant." and these, as Goethe will insist not as abstract concepts in the mind but somehow in the living instance itself. Thus Goethe sought to account for plant �Da\ id Lawrence Levine "At the Very Center of the Plenitude " Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 6 14x life as such, despite the dizz\ ing fact that they take infiniteh man>" and wondroush" different shapes. Sumac, aspen, mallow are in "inner essence" still "plants.""" What is needed in this view is to identify- the imify ing principle at work (not "underK ing') in each and every form at whatever stage of gro\\"th and complexit\- the>' might be. But how to do so? And how to find a language that captures this universalK" active principle of forms forming themselves? To do so Goethe had to depart radicalK -ffom his contemporaries and from their analvtical approach. But in so doing this departure brings him closer to us. We can see this at the outset of the Metamorphosis of Plants that we read in freshman laboratory, where he appeals, not to results of the latest scientific journals, but to our own untutored experience. He begins: "Anyone M-ho has paid a little attention to plant growth..."'^ [2.\]. This means that we. ordinary human beings, still have access to a realm of primaiy significance, one not to be diminished as "prescientific." if what is meant thereb> is "pre-insightful." Rather we, >ou and me, have deep access into what is before us." Indeed he is critical that, with all our education and learning, we ma}* on the contrary be closing ourselves offfrom this primary le\el of our experience. He often referred to a passage in one of his earh" plays to illustrate this eclipse ofexperience by theory: ...as it is said in my Goetz von Berlichingen. that the son, from pure learning, does not know the father, so in science do we find people w-ho can neither see nor hear, through sheer learning and Inpothesis. Such people look at once within: the>" are so [pre-] occupied b\' what is revoh ing in themselves, that the%are like a man in passion, who passes his dearest friends in the street without seeing them. [Rather] the observation of nature requires a certain purity of mind that cannot be disturbed or preoccupied b> an>thing....It is just because we carry- about with usa great apparatus of philosophy and hvpothesis, that we spoil all.*® "Like a man in passion:" Ideas, no less than passions, can take hold of our minds, preventing us from seeing what might othenvise be evident and therebv" preventing us from attending to our primary experience.'^ So overwhelming are our present-day theoretical preoccupations that—in one of his most shocking statements of all—Goethe claims that we no longer even concern ourselves with nature! "That nature, which is our [modem] concern. isn*t nature any longer....'" he says."*^ [2x] Extraordinary! What has been lost, in Goethe's view, is a sense of the wholeness of wholes and the interrelatedness and integration of all things, in short, Nature (capital N). This loss is the necessary consequence of an>- approach wherein wholes are but "b>-products"^' of uncoordinated, underh ing, isolated forces and elements ("mater in the void"). Looking at things in terms of their parts—elements, simples, particles, atoms—anaKtical ways of thinking stumble in the face of the Humptv Dumptv- problem: how to put the whole back together again."*" If we begin with parts, we end up with reconstituted conglomerates, aggregates, bunches, but the wholeness of things, the integral realitv-. remains a secondary phenomenon, a mystery, if not an accident."*' Here too we've become "blind with seeing eyes.'* Juniors are soon to read and seniors will remember Descartes' famous experiment with the wax at the end of Meditations n. There Descartes places a piece of fresh bees wa.\ near a burning candle, whereupon it melts and loses its original color and smell, te.xture and shape (i.e. primary as well as secondary qualities), that is loses all its original properties but res extensa, mere e.xtension (though this changes too). This experimental method is designed to bring us to see �Da\ id Lawrence Levine Page 7 "At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'' Fridav Niaht Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14.\ what is "elementar* (if not fundamental). Descartes then proceeds to claim that b\- "an act of intuition of reason" he—and we—^wouid know thistransmogrified, charred lump in front of us to be the same thing as before his infernal e.xperiment. He asks, yvho M ould not so conclude thus? (Aristotle, for one) Well... if that were a plant, and not an amorphous hunk of bees wax. M'ho M ould concur M idiDescartes that what remains is the same as what was putto the flameT*^ The anahtical flame dissociates or separates what originally was together. It "kills." So this method."*' The disfigured, deracinated, blackened carcass of the plant is anything but. the li\ ing whole, nowhere to be found. The mass of matter lying before Descartes is '^he same" only if life and death are not different, and if form is not an acti\e principle but a derivative by product. With this "lethal generality'"*^ we lose—and lose sight of—^"the spirit ofthe whole." as Goethe would say. For this reason, he claimed as well that the modem approach—subjecthelv predisposed to take the objects of our e.\perience in such a reduced way—loses its claim to "objectivity.""* The question for Goethe—and for us—is whether and how we can recover the whole. Is it still possible to begin elsewhere, think differently such that the whole is retained along with its manifold parts? Can we yet begin where we naturally begin, with what is "first for us" (Aristotle), with integral wholes? 5. Our Ancient Right: The spirit of the actual is the true ideal." ""No one who is observant will ever find nature dead or silent.""*^ Goethe thus sought "another way." in order, as he said, "to restore to the human spirit, its ancientright to comeface toface with nature." "*' [2x] He asks: "What does all our communion M-ith nature amount to... if we busy ourselves with analyzing only single portions, and do not feel the breath of the spirit that dictates the role of every part and restrains or sanctions all excess through an immanent law ?""® Thus "phenomena once and for all must be remo\ed from the gloomy empirical-mechanical-dogmatic [torture] chamber [Materkammer]." he said, "and [be] submitted [rather] to the jury of [common human understanding]."'^ But how^ are we to do this, to return to "common human understanding"? Since apparently we can live in more than one world. Goethe makes his bid—^"naively" yet knowingly"'—^to reclaim nature as our home-world. "If we are to rescue ourselves from the boundless muhiplicir\\ atomization and complexit}- ofthe modem natural sciences" he says, "and get back to the realm of simplicity [Einfache]. we must always consider [this] question: how would Plato [or any non-modern] have reacted to fundamentally one unity as it still is, how would he have \ iewed what may now appear to us as its greater complexity?"'* We need to remove what "now" stands in the way.'"* We need somehow to shuck off our modem predisposition to see all things as artificially reconstituted'" and see our world, rather, as one might whose \ ision was not so refracted. But how? Mindful that "the first stages of a discovery lea\-e their mark on the course of knowledge.*'"^ Goethe first seeks to reorient us. To begin with, "anyone who has paid a little attention" has to acknowledge that our primary and original experience of things is otherM ise than we've been brought to conceive. 'To nature," he said, ""we never see anything isolated: �Da\ id Lawrence Levine ""At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude*' Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 8 everything is in connection with something."* An\- account, then, of our experience must begin here M'ith the wiiTy and interrelatedness ofall things. Herein lays Goethe's unified field theoiy: "I abide bv what is simple and comprehensive, he says."^ (This he also calls his "stubborn realism."*'') As we heard, a certain kind of undisturbed purity of mind—clarit>-. breadth of sur\ e> . anention to manifest differences—is the pre-requisite to an>- genuine openness. In the garden, along a path, in the laboratoiy. we need first to see the things themselves, to recognize the ways and means that the plant [or whatever our object] uses.'*^ "...to follow it carefully throu^ all its transitions.'"^' in short. "...xo folloM- as carefully as possible in thefootsteps of nature.' ' "In the process.'' he sa\s. "we become familiar with certain requisite conditions for what is manifesting itself. From this point of \ iew everything gradually falls into place under higher principles and laws revealed not to reason through \%ords and h\potheses. but to our intuitive perception \Anschauiing^ through phenomena.^" In this way. our relationship to things is not at first "speculative." but what Goethe calls "practical." that is grounded in the concrete experience of individuals and the real.^ (Here have we a model of openness and e.xtreme care that will serve us well, not onl\- in the laboratoiy . but throughout our work at the college.) Given this, gi^•en observation that is undertaken with a"truly sj*mpathetlc interest."^* a remarkable transformation can then begin. We can be moved to insight. In an often quoted passage from the Introduction to his Outline ofa Theory of Color. Goethe addresses this process of natural ideation. He writes: An extremely odd demand is often set forth but never met...that [bare] empirical data should be presented without any theoretical context.... This demand is odd because it is useless to simpK" look at something. Everyact oflooking [naturally] turns into obsen-ation. every act of observation into reflection, eveiy act of reflection into the making of associations: tints it is that we theorize every time we look carefully at the world. The abilit\ to do this with clarity of mind^ with self-knowledge, in a free wa>, and (if I may venture to put it so [he adds]) with irony, is a skill we need in order to avoid the pitfalls of [modem scientific] abstraction.''^ Nature con\erses with us. Like an\" organic transition, thought is the natural and continuous outgrowth of its prior condition, the fmit ofconcrete experience. As such we are naturally led to a higher integration through *\..tbe practical and self-distilling processes of common human understanding"!'^ [2.\] "We theorize every time we look careful1\- atthe world." When we are able to sune\' an object in eveiy detail, grasp it carefully and reproduce it in our mind's e\e [he reflects, then] we can sa>- we have an intuitive perception [.•inschauimg] of it in the truest and highest sense. We can [rightfully] sa)' it belongs to us.... And thus the particular leads to the general [as well as] the general to the particular. The two combine their effect in eveiyobsen'atioD, in every discourse.^ As much as we take the lead in inquiry, then so too are we led by what we are inquiring into. Experience is bi-directional. Subject-object: object-subject. Tme sympathetic observation results in the recapitulation in our summary imagination of the originating principle. The object becomes for us as it is in itself. In this way the object "belongs" to us as much as we. in communion, belong with it. Our natural correlation is thereby reestablished, the Cartesian �David Lawrence Le\ ine Page 9 "/4/ the Very Center ofthe Plenitude*' Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14x subjective reduction of experience is offset, if not re\ ersed. and a kind of renewed originaiin* is returned to human experience, widening and opening our puniew®'. whereby we might be thought once again to come "face to face" with nature. Our ancient right is restored. 6. The Original World: "...the sublime tranquilit\' which surrounds us when we stand in the solitude and silence of nature. vast and eloquent." "A living thing cannot be measured b>" something external to itself."" ^ This reunion of obser\ er and world—^we should sa\' union—is possible because of a unique human facult}'—one out-rightK" denied " or at least overlooked by other modem thinkers—but to which Goethe again and again retums our attention. As we read: "When we are . able to sur\€y an object in every detail, grasp it carefulh^ and reproduce it in the mind's eye. we can say we have an intuitive perception of it in the truest and highest sense." This capacit>- for "concrete imagination" or summary "intuition" (intuitive perception, Anschauung) is our faculty for e.xperiential wholes wherein the acti\ ely unii} ing principles at work in the world manifest themselves. (Deny it and we haNe no wholes). They are not deduced, inferred, or synthesized. We do not ha\ e to go be\ ond or behind *the phenomena to see these at work. These are made known to us at the level of our primary e.xperience. We "see" them. There's a famous story: At. a meeting of the Society' for Scientific Research in Jena there was a 'Tortunate encounter" between Goethe and the poet Friedrich Schiller—^whose poetry at the time Goethe thought too romantic, too subjective. Goethe sought to explain to him his own attempt to articulate such a principle whereb\" the natural plenitude of plant life might be accounted for. His "idea" was. he admits, ''the strangest creature in the world**'^ wherein the whole range of plant formation might be seen as "stemming" or "derived'* from an aboriginal form that was in this regard the formal progenitor of the whole kingdom. Goethe named this the Urpflanze^y the original ororiginary plant. ^ Schiller's first response to this suggestion reflected his philosophical background, in particular his indebtedness to Kant. "This is not an obser\ ation from experience." he said. "This is an idea. " Schiller could not see what Goethe claimed he scnw He was disinclined—^as we ma\' be—^to grant that this was an\*thing but a "regulative idea" constructed b\" reason to help it organize its experience, not a principle at work in the world organizing the phenomenal arra\" of plant forms. It was mereh* an idea, merely "subjective." For him and for Kant, it couldn't be anything more, as in their \ iew phenomena are themseh es constituted b>' consciousness and are thus not things in themselves. Convinced, rather, that he had identified the objective generative source of all plant forms. Goethe replied: "Then 1 may rejoice that I ha\ e ideas without knowing iL and can even see them with my own eyes,"* For Goethe, perception and reason, as moments of a natural process, are not disparate faculties, but continuous. Thus this, and all other ITr-phenomena. immanent and at work throughout our experience, are real and hence must be available to us on the primary level of common human understanding ^. He wonders: "Why should it not also hold true in the intellectual area that through an intuitive perception of etemalK" creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process?" He thus insisted that he �Da\ id Lawrence Levine Page 10 ""At the Ven' Center ofthe Plenitude" Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Hx could see with his eyes something to which others seern to have become blind. ^ (Despite this ftindamental difference, the two became close friends.) But more needs to be said about this "strangest" of all creatures that holds, in Goethe's words, "the secret of the creation and organization of plants" (or any family of phenomena). As we mentioned earlier. Goethe's interests were vast and not restricted to botany; he also did research in osteology" or bone formation. Indeed it was Goethe who discovered the role of the intermaxillaiy- bone, the missing link that alIo\\ed zoologists to connect man and ape anatomicalK'. In a passage from his work On Morphology, we see most clearly the point of origination of his thinking concerning £^r-phenomena: The distinction between man and animal long eluded discovery. Ultimately it was belie\ ed that the definiti% e difference between ape and man la\' in the placement of the ape's four incisors in a bone clearly and physically separate from other bones. [Goethe provides the link.]... Meanwhile I had devoted my fiill energies to the stud}' of osteolog}'. for in the skeleton the unmistakable character of ever}' form is preserved conclusively and for all time. The developmental history of an organism is not past; rather the history of successive generational transformations is preser\ed and encapsulated in the fullness of any present form. Just as osteogeny can now be seen to recapitulate ph} logen}'. so more generally can any such morphological account. This "pregnanc}"^' of the present form allows of a new kind of thinking to uncover the C/r-principle at work, a re\"erse thinking that ''traces the phenomena [back] to their [empirical] origins.''®" (This is the first methodological principle of the new science of morpholog}'"). In another context he reflects on this Ur-principle. now also called an "archetype:" •\.. an anatomical archet}pe will be suggested here, a general picture containing the forms of all animals as potential [2x], one which will guide us to an orderly description of each animal.'"®^ The £/r-principle is thus a kind of omni-potential in conversation with its environment and out of which the whole pohmorphic metamorphosis issues. "All is leaf" As such these are not ideas in the usual sense of Plato or KanL neither separate nor abstract. Rather the}' are like ideas in enabling us to give an account of the unify ing principles at the origin of the plenitude. They are like ideas, as well, in that they might ser\'e as a kind of "formula" providing a way to generate new forms—if only in imagination.®' (The "deri\'ation®^' is not ofhypothetical but real possibilities.) Though they are more like the eidos in Aristotle, an active principle embodying the manifold fruitfulness of nature, here ho\N'ever "the secret of the creation and organization" ofthe family of forms. (He sometimes called itentelechy} ) Thus whatever the family of phenomena—^botany, osteolog'. geology, meteorology, color—C/r-phenomena emerge. We come to see the unify ing principle, the spirit 'That dictates the role of e\'er}' part and restrains or sanctions all excess through immanent law." From this "empirical summit.®®" all things can be seen as unified. Thus we have order out of chaos®', integration where we might otherwise have discontinuity. The plenitude is comprehended. Therefore when you pick up Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants to read, or any of his other writings on nature, do not close yourseh es off when hearing its foreign language, rather attempt to hear its new \'oice and direction for the understanding of nature, "the element in which we live." Whether, indeed. Goethe has bequeathed us afi uirfidpath by means of which I ^ �Da\ id Lawrence Le\ ine Page 11 "At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'^ Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14x our ancient right might be restored or whether it is but a false porta. is for each of us to determine for ourselves. 7. Against Self-knowledge: "Eveiything that liberates our mind without at the same time impartina self-control is pernicious Where are we. then, in the midst of all this? Is there a lesson to be learned about ourselves from this "other \\ ay of studying nature"? As we'\'e seen there are two unities that are reestablished by Goethe's wa}- of thinking: there's the unit}' of wholes that had been fragmented, and the unit}' of obsen er and world that had been alienated. Let us think more about the latter. This unit}" of obsen er and world means that, like any organism, man cannot be known, nor know himself, apart from his world—his environment— which sustains him and of which he is an integral part. Given the polarized, inauthentic. and diminished sense of self that is the consequence of the di\ orce of the "ego'* from its world in modem thought, it is understandable, then, that to Goethe "no one knows himself an}' longer." This led him to his famous—if at first shocking—remark concerning the Delphic oracle: "I mustadmit.'" he said, 'ihat I have long been suspicious of the great and important sounding task: 'know-thyself.' This has always seemed to me a deception practiced b}' a secret order of priests who wished to confuse humanity with impossible demands, to divert attention from acti>it}' in the outer world to some false inner speculation.*'" Self-knowledge—or what we take to be such—can be misleading, indeed disabling. But how can we make it truthful...and enabling? As we would expect, for Goethe the success of our efforts to know ourselves depends on the degree to which we are willing to extend ourselves be}ond ourselves. "Man is b}' all his senses and efforts directed to externals—to the world around him....'"'* he stresses, and thus "the human being knows himself only insofar as he knows the world: he percei\ es the world onl} in himself and himself only in the world."'" This brings to mind his earlier obser\'ation: "WTioe\'er descends deep down into himself will always realize he is only half a being:" this thought was then completed with 'iet him find ...a world....and he will become whole."" In short, that we might be drawn out of our overly selfpolarized existence, we need to reestablish ourselves once again as "worldly beings, full}" engaged with and in our natural correlate "the outer w orld." Thus he answers the question "How can we learn self-knowledge?" in this wa}": ""'"Never by taking thought but rather by action."'" [2x] This reph' should not surprise us. for itwas our history that our very attempts to thwk about ourseKes and the world brought us to this unnatural polarization. Thus it is •'acti^'it}' in the outer world" alone that is necessary" to restore a balanced polarit}'and healthy equilibrium. We see this in Goethe's own ''objective activit} :" Without my attempts in natural science, [he said] I should never have learned to know mankind [including himself] as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closeh' observ e errors of the sense and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character. All is more or less pliant and wavering...but nature understands no jesting; she is always true. alwa}'s serious: alwa}'s severe... the errors and faults are alwa}'s those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her. she despises: and only to the apt. the pure and the true, does she resisn herself and res eal her secrets.'^ �David Lawrence Levine Page 12 "At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude" FridayNight Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Here we see Goethe learning lessons from nature that once were thought the fruit of introspection and the stud\' of the human sciences. The book of nature, as other texts, can serve as an occasion for self-reflection. 'The apt. the pure, and the true'* learn about themselves and other human beinas as the\ self-criticalK" open themseh es up to new fields and methods. The earlier passage. "For"almost a centuiy now the humanities have no longer influenced the minds ofmen engaged in them:" comes to mind. It is followed b>-: "it is a real piece of good fortune that nature inter>'ened. drew the essence of the humanities to itself and opened to us the way to a true humanitarianism from its side."^" The stud>- of nature can thus be a liberatingstudy, freeing us from the burden of blinding conceptions and enabling us to return to our original worldliness wherein we. once asain. can open oursel\"es to our fullest possibilities. In this wa\. the study of nature is properly a liberal art. 8. The Grand Attempt: "Where do we meet an original naturel Where is the man with strength to be true, and to show himselfas he is?"'® FinalK". certain questions emerged earlier about our modem way of life. How are we, given the ^'demands of an exorbitant present,*" not to get ""caught up" in the whirl of our times and to reclaim a sense of productive leisured For Goethe the answer is ...nature, whose rhythms, it was once thought, could not be accelerated, and through our study of which intimations of timeless self-sameness might prove a refuge and shape our own being in the world. How are we to regain afooting ""where everything is in flux of continual change"? Here too. the answer for Goethe is nature, our home world, whose inherent lawfulness, as evidenced in the unities of life forms, can thus provide a secure base upon which to take our next steps. How are we to know ourselves more completely? Nature is especially needed here to offset our tendency^ to over self-involvement and to return us to our original fullness of being. And how are we to educate ourselves more truthfully? Since modem education only brought us, in Goethe's view, to become "blind with seeing eyes." he sought in nature a complement—not to mention an antidote—^whose truthfulness would bring us "to see with seeing eyes" that fullness of view, perspective and measure that is the proper fmit of serious study. Our question: can our own sustained reflection on these questions, beginning with freshman laboratory, lead to lessons such as these as well?" B\ way of conclusion I would like to quote Nietzsche one last time. Toward the end of his life (1889). he himselftried to capture in one of his aphorisms "the European event" that was Goethe. This distillation lis es up to his well-known boast that he "wrote whole books in one sentence.""''® though in this case he is somewhat more loquacious, for it took him a whole paragraph to epitomize this extraordinary life: Goethe - not a German event but a European one: a grand attempt to overcome the eighteenth century through a retum to nature, through a going-z/p to the naturalness of the Renaissance, a kind of self-ov ercoming on the part of that century. - He bore within him its strongest instincts: sentimentality, natureidolatiy. the anti-historical, the idealistic, the unreal and revolutionaiy.... He called to his aid history, the natural sciences, antiquity , likewise Spinoza, above all practical activity; he surrounded himself with nothing but closed horizons; he did not sever himself from life, [rather] he placed himself within it [that is, ""at the very center of the plenitude"]; nothing could discourage him and he took as much as possible upon himself, above himself, within himself. What he ^ �David Lawrence Le\ ine ''At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude*' Page 13 Friday Night Dean's Lecture. August 29,2003 14x aspired to was rotaliry: he stro\ e against separation of reason, sensualit}'. feeling, will (—preached in the most horrible scholasticism b> Kant, the antipode of Goethe): he disciplined himself to the whole, he created himself...Goethe was, in an epoch disposed to the unreal, a convinced realist: ...Goethe conceived of a strong, highly cultured human being, skilled in all physical accomplishments, who, keeping himself in check and having re\ erence for himself, dares to allow himself the whole compass and wealth of naturalness, [one] who is strong enough for this freedom .... A spirit thus emancipated stands in the midst of the universe with a jojful and trusting fatalism, in the faith that only what is separate and indi\idual ma>' be rejected, that in the totalit>- everything is redeemed and affirmed - he no longer denies ... But such a faith is the highest of all possible faiths: I have baptized it with the name [...] Dionysus.— Those who've read more wideK" in Nietzsche will recognize this last act of baptism as extraordinary: there is no higher, nor deeper, nor more original mode of being for Nietzsche than this aboriginal and creative life force that he identifies in the person of Goethe: 1) this rare independence from it's times. 2) this extraordinary, if circumspect, positivity, 3) this unlimited and deep interest in all things. 4) this secure groundedness in practical, concrete reality-, 5) this insistence on our original, primary experience. 6) this noble distance from suffering, 7) this incomparable sense of measure, and of course 8) this Olympian courage. If not Dionysus, then what name or word would be appropriate? Goethe and Nietzsche saw that we modems ha\e a hard choice before us: between disaffection and engagement, between c\nicism'*'" and wonder. Goethe somehow was able to affirm life, to sav YESl'*^* So we ask you tonight to consider this figure, how he might move you to "discipline yourselves to the whole" and summon the natural fecundity of your inherence. .\nd we ask you tonight "to place yourselves within life." to seek out what is primary and original and. daring to speak the language ofdisco\'ery. to speak "poetically.'^" And we ask you tonight to "make time" for thoughtfulness. that you transform the mundane with thejo> s of daily discos eiy. that\ our life be rich and yourdays notordinary ones. One last comment: Eckermann observed that even until Goethe's last da>'S (that is. into his 83"^ year), he was continually learning. May this be so for you as well. Thank vou. �David Lawrence Levine ".4r the Very Center ofthe Plenitude" Page 14 Fridav Nidit Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14.\ Endnotes ' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. .Maxim and Reflections. = 337: also 664 [hereafter MR]. Given as the annual Fridav niaht Dean's Lecture' to open the 37'" academic year at St. John's College. Santa Fe. See MR = 864. This talk is a further development of work begun in 1966 (see Levine. "The Political Philosophy of Sature. .4 Preface to Goethe s Human Sciences." Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. XL 1986. pp. 163-178). It was Thomas McDonald who introduced me to the work of Eric Heller and Karl Lowith. and all three who introduced me to the depth of Goethe's thinking: m\ debt to them continues. For the ambiguiiv' and greatness of Goethe's "grand anempt." see Johann Petet Eckermann. Conversations with Goethe, translated by John Oxenford. London. 1951 [1850]. [hereafter ECK]. October.20.1828. .As alwa>s my deep gratitude to Jacqueline Levine and John Comell for their thoughtful suggestions. I " Nietzsche. Twilight ofthe Idols, Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by R.J. Holilingdale. 1968 [1889]. = 49. p. 102[hereafterTl\. •' .Martin Heidegger. "On the Essence and Concept of Phusis in .Aristotle's Physics B. 1." Pathmarks, Cambridge. 1998. p. 183 [hereafter Phusis]. " .Analysis and Synthesis [hereafter .AS], in Goethe. Scientific Studies, vol. 12. edited and translated b\- Doualas Miller. The Colleaed ff'orks. Princeton. 1995. p. 48 [hereafter SS]. The publication of this collection of Goethe's disparate scientific workshas provided a new occasion for further reflection about his"grand anempL" • Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Goethe, or the Writer." Representative Men. New York. 1995 [1850]. p. 195. ^ ECK Januaiy 4. 1824. May2. 1824. Februaiy 18and 19. 1829. ECK Februaix 26. 1824: also .MR = 662. ' ECK March 1. 1830. ' Outline of a Theory of Color [hereafter OTC]. SS. = 743 see also note 21. 10 Nietzsche. "The Wanderer and His Shadow. " Human at! too Hunum, A Bookfor Free Spirits, translated by R. J. Hollingdate. Cambridge. 1986. Vol. II. Pt II = 109. p. 336 Lener to Zelier. June 7. 1825: in Ldwith. Karl. "The Historical Background of European Xihilisin." "The Fate of Progress." .Mature, History, and Existentialisnu and Other Essays in the Philosophy of History'. E\anston. 1966. pp. 4. 156-7: Front Hegel to Sietzsche. the Revolution in Sineteenth Century Thought. New YorL 1964. pp. 27-8. 177-181 [hereafterHN): also MR = 480. i MR =474. • MR = 479. '•* .MR = 770. HN p. 226. The EnterpriseJustified. On Morphology. SS. p. 61. The ego or modem selfis doubtful of all but bare existence, where even the e.xiemaliiv . the worldness of the world, is in question. Foran interesting reflection on the problem of the subject-object polaritv . see Heidegger. Phusis. p.188. .A modem ironv: man is least at home in a world of his own conception. �David Lawrence Levine Page 15 the Very Center of the Plenitude" Fridav Niaht Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 14x ECK September 24. 1827. ECK September 18. 1823. Bj-contrast, all of Goethe's poetn* was insistently "occasional." that is objecti\ ely motivated: "The world is so great and rich, and life so full of \ ariet>*. that \ou can ne\er want for occasions for poems. But the\ must be occasioned [poems] [Geiegenheitsgediche]: that is to sa\. realin- {lVirklichkeif\ must give both impulse and material. .A panicular even becomes universal and poetic by the veiy circumstance that it is treated bv- a poet. .All mv poems are occasioned poems, suggested bv- real life, and having therein a firm foundation." ,A radicalh different orientation and tone is apparent here. See also January 29. 1826. MR ^ 337.393. 119. " MR = 935. ECK Januarv- 29. 1826: also .MR =1119. ECK .May18.24. - ECKJanuaiv 29. 1826. MR = 1031: ECK .Mav 2.1829. .A comparison wiih Nietzsche is appropriate here. ECK March. 14. 1830; also December 21. 1831: ITP p. 39. 29 ECK .April 14. 1824: also 77je Cement Prefaced. On Morphology. SS. p. 67. and HN pp. 6-7. On the Parts of.Animals, l.v. 645al6. 19-27. Fortunate Encounter [hereafter FE], SS. p. 18. "The Germans." Goethe notes, "have a word for the complex of existence present in the physical organism. Gestalt [or structured form]...[whereby] an interrelated whole is identified, defined, and fixed in character. But if we look at all these Gestalten [all these forms], especiallv- organic ones, we will discover that nothing in them is permanent nothing is at rest or defined—everything is in flux of continual motion. This is why the Germans fi-equentlv- and fininglv- make use of [another] wordBildung[formation] to describe [both] the end product and what is in process of production as well." The PurposeSet Forth. On .Morphology. SS. p. 63. Significant Help Given by an Ittgenious Turn ofPhrase [hereafter ITP]. SS. p. 40. See CP p. 69: also Eric Heller. "Goethe and the Idea of Scientific Truth." The Disinherited Mind. New York. 1959.p. 10 [hereafter Heller]. *' Metamorphosis ofPlant [hereafter MoP]. SS. ^ 60.67. MoP. p. 76. OTC - 743. ECK. .Mav- 18. 1824: also January 17. 1830. This is the "modem cave." We may not be disposed at first to include the philosophers among the "opinion makers" parading above and behind the chained onlookers in Plato's cave {Republic VII). But they are word smiths and as such we are indebted to them for our language and lenses as well: see also Hegel. "Preface." Phenomenology of Spirit, translated bv .A. \'. Miller. Oxford. 1977. =33. pp. 19-20: "In modem time the individual finds the abstract ready made.... Hence the task nowadays consists...in freeing determinate thoughts from their fixity so as to give actuality to the universal and impart to it spiritual life. " �Da\ id Lawrence LeN ine Page 16 '\4t the Ven' Center ofthe Plenitude*" Frida\- Niaht Dean's Lecture. Auaust 29. 2003 14x r^ MR = 1364. Lucreiius. On the yantre of Things. II. •*" "These anempts at division also produce many adverse effects when carried to an e.\ireme. To besure, what is ali\e can be dissected into its component parts, but from these pans it will be impossible to restore it and bring it back to life" (PSF p. 63). The natural plenitude is now compounded exponentially by the anahiical dissolution or decomposition of wholes; cp. Heidegger's characterization: the original "atomic bomb" is to be found here in our modem analuical disassociation or explosion of all things into bits, pans and panicles {"The Thing." Poetry, Language, Thought, ed. byHofstadter. New Tork. 1971, p. 170). .And thus the diminished realii>- of those who think that a home is bricks and monar. and humans their chemical makeup. ~ Rene Descanes. Meditations on First Philosophy. 11. .AT pp. 19-34. How someone could e\en think this is wonh fiinher thought. .A. science that had given up trying to e.\plain our e.\perience was simply incomprehensive—not to mention infuriating—^to one so firmly rooted in theactual ("at the very center of the plenitude"). The Extent to ff'Ttich the Idea 'Beauty Is Petfection in Combination with Freedom' May be .Applied to Living Organisms, SS 22: also ECK September 2. 1830: see also Goethe's longstanding debate with the Newtonian school and their tendenc\ to substitute secondaiyfor primary phenomena: OTC = 176. 718. TheEnterprise Justified. On .Morphology, SS p. 61. In this regard one might want to compare Goethe and Nietzsche's respective anempts to "sta\e off the nihilistic consequences of modem science" (Levine. .4 World ofWoridless Truths, .An Invitation to Philosophy). 4S OTC= 158. .AOS p. 48. ECK September2. 1830:also Heller, p. 16. MR = 430: gemeine Menschen verstand (not "common sense"): cf. Empirical Observation and Science, [hereafter EOSJ. SS p. 25. "" Naively Levine. "The .Antinomy and Irs Political Resolution." The Political Philosophy of.\ature. pp. 170-172. .MR = 664: also ECK January 29. 1826: "People alwa\s talk of the study of the ancients: but what does that mean, except that it sa\s. turn your attention to the real world....": see also OTC = 358. Yet as we shall see Goethe is not an ancient but seeks to car\e out a middle position between ancient and modem science. While there is deep asreement with .Aristotle about ourexperience of nature in terms of wholes, there isdisagreement aboutwhat is eternal. In making form eternal. .Aristotle, hesaid, was prone to "precipitousness" (....) By contrast forhim it is theprocess, not the form, which abides. "E\erything is in flux of continual motion." Goethe has sought to establish hisown "theory of relativity. a relational and immanent measure, amidst the ever-changing" (Levine. The Political Philosophy ofSature. p. 174)." *•' "There is no worse mistake in ph\ sics or an\ science than to treat secondary things as basic and...to seek an explanation for the basic things in secondary ones" (OTC = 718). It'sas ifwe were "toenter a palace b>" the side door and thereafter base our description of the whole on our firsL one-sided impression {General Observation [hereafter GO], SS. p. 42 and OTC p. 160): also. = 177. 716 and its application tothe "grievous" Newtonian error at= 176. " See Heidegger. Phusis: "The act ofself-unfolding emergence isinherenth" a going-back-into-itself. This kind ofbecoming present isphusis. But it must not be thought ofas a kind of built-in 'motor* that drives something nor as an oraanizer" on hand somewhere, directing the thing. Nonetheless, we might be tempted to fall back on the notion that p/»;iv(-detemiined being could be a kind that makes themselves. So easiK' and spontaneoush' does this idea suggest �David Lawrence Le\'ine "/4/ the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'^ Frida}' Night Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 17 14x itself that it has become normative for the interpretation of li\ ing nature in particular, a living being has been understood as an "organism." No doubt a good deal of time has yet to pass before we learn to see that the idea of organism' and of the 'organic' is a purel> modem, mechanistic teleological concept according to which "growing things' are interpreted as ariijbcis that make themselves. E\en the word and concept "plant' takes what grows as something "planted." something sown and cultivated (p. 195)" and "But is notphusis then misunderstood as some son of self-makingartifacti Or is this not a misunderstanding at all but the onl\ possible interpretation of phusis. nameh. as a kind of technel This almost seems to be the case, because modem metaphysics, in the impressive terms of ...Kanu conceives of "nature" as a "technique" such that this "technique" that constitutes the essence of nature pro\ ides the metaphysical ground for the possibilii>. or eN en the necessit>-. of subjecting and mastering nature through machine technology (p. 220)." 56 GO p. 42. ECK. May 12. 1825; also .AS p. 48. 58 ECK .April II. 1827. 59 FE p. 20. 60 The Influence of.Modern Philosophy, (hereafter IMP], SS p. 28. MoP = 77. 62 .MoP = 84. o r e = 175. 64 EOS p.25. OTC = 665. There are times when Goethe seems to anticipate Husserl's phenomenological approach, in panicular in The Experiment as Mediator Between Object and Subject [hereafter EMOS]. p. 16. and LALO p. 22. where the rigor and thoroughness of something like "eidetic variation" seems to be proposed. The question is li\ ing form: ""...We cannot find enough points of view nor develop ourselves enough organs of perception to avoid killing it when we anahze it" that is. multiple adumbrations may give us a kind of whole but at the risk of rendering the outcome a "mental composition' (as in Kant). It would be interesting to see how Husserl and Heidegger treat life in its original vitality. See also OTC = 166. ^ Preface. OTC p. 159. We'\ e taken the liberty to add the specification "modem scientific" to abstraction. Throughout his OTC Goethe addresses the problems of scientific cognition and its tendency to excessive abstraction (== 310. 716. 754.and p. 162). ForGoethe, as for Hegel, this tendency is consequential and reckless. See note52. EOS. SS p. 25. 68 Polarity. SS p. 155: OTC = 175: Lenerto Herder. .May 17. 1778 (in Heller, p. 10). OTC = 732 (""expanded empiricism"). On Granite. SS. p. 132. .4 Study Based on Spinoza, SS. p. 8. Despite Kant's denial of such a human faculty in his Critique of Teleological Judgment. Goethe found a window ofopponunity. He wrote that Kant had "... a roguishly ironic way of working: at times heseemed determined to put the narrowest limit on our ability to know things, and at times, with a casual gesture, he pointed beyond the limits he himself had set." The passage in Kant that Goethe alludes to reads thus: "He can...think [of a kind of] understanding which [unlike our discursive one is}... intuitive, [and] proceeds from the synthetical-universal tthe intuition of the whole as suclu to theparticular, i.e. from the whole to theparts.... It is here notat all requisite toprove that such an iniellecius archerypous is possible, but only that ue are led to the idea of it—which too contains no �Da\ id Lawrence Le\ ine "'At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude" Friday Niaht Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 Page 18 14x contradiction—in contrast to our discursive understanding, which has need of'images finiellectus ect}pust and to the contingenc}- of'its constitution." However. Goethe then drew the opposite conclusion: "Whyshould it not also hold true in the intellectual area that through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spirituallyin its creative process?." he wonders. "Impelled from thestart byan inner need. I had stri\ en unconsciously and incessantl>' toward primal image and prototype, and had even succeeded in building up a method of representing it which conformed to nature. Thus there was nothing ftinher to prevent me from boldly embarking on this "adventure of reason" (as the sage of Ronigsberg himself called it)." Judgment through Intuitive Perception [hereafter JIP]. SS pp. 31-2: also E.MOS. pp. 11-17. Contrast Kant's "aesthetic normal idea" Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, § 17. OTC = 177. Lener to Herder. .Ma\ 17. 1787:"...1 am ver> close to discovering the secret of the creation and organization of plants....The crucial point from which evetyihing else must needs spring.... The i'rpflanze is to be the strangest creature in the world.... .After this model [visual formula] it will be possible to in\ ent plants ad infininim. which will all be consistent...would possess an inner truth and necessity . .And the same law will be applicable to every thing alive (Heller, p. 10). .Also OTC ? 175. Polarity p. 155. "• Vrpflanze is often translated as"symbolic plant." While this rendering might behelpful if we keep a strictK" Goethean notion of symbol in mind (as in MR = 314). this translation more often misdirects us if it suggests to the reader either a mental abstraction or a literaiy device. Rather it seeks to embody the manifold fruitfiilness of nature "in potential" (Outline for a General Introduaion to Comparative Anatomy, Commencing with Osteology [hereafter GIC.A]. SS. p. 118). ".All is leaf." .MoP =119: OTC = 120. Fortunate Encounter [hereafterFE], SS. p.20: ECK No\"ember 14. 1823. ^ Leners to Schiller. Februaiy 10. 14. 1787 (in Heller p. 20). Hegel too—who other\vise was well disposed to Goethe's project, indeed helped Goethe see how it fit into the larger scheme of the development of ideas—Hegel too nevenheless failed to see the i'rpflanze as anjthing but an abstracted archet> pe(See Hegel, The Letters, translated b> Butler and Seller. Indiana. 1984. pp. 681-711: HN. p. 11). ^ CP, SS. pp. 68-9. .And we read in the .Metamorphosis of Plants of the cal\-x that it "...betrays its composite origins in itsmore or less deep incisions or divisions. ITPp.41. OTC p. 166. This ma\ sound like "deconstruction." yet we would have to consider whether it represents a true break with anaKiical thinking, as Goethe seeks to do here. CP. SS p. 69. Just as it led to his "discovering" the Ur-principle of the plant kingdom, so Goethe is led in his other studies to "postulate" one for the mammal famih': "In the process 1 was soon obliged to postulate a prototype against which all mammals could be compared asto points of agreement and divergence. .As I had earlier sought out the archet>pal plant 1now aspired to find the archet> pal animal: in essence the concept or idea of the animal." S4 GIC.A p. 118. Letter to Herder. .Vlay 17. 1787; OTC = 175:Polarity p. 155. 86 ITP p. 41 ("...m> wholemethod relies on derivation...."). .Aristotle's eidos is not subject to metamorphosis. On the other side, in Darwin the metamorphosis of form is not an unfolding of immanent form but the haphazard "evolution of species" and creati\e adaptation on the pan of activ e wholes becomes ""random selection." See note 51. My thanks again to John Cornell for his helping me think this through. i,—^ f > �David Lawrence Levine "At the Very Center ofthe Plenitude'' Page 19 Fridav Niaht Dean's Lecture. August 29. 2003 ss I4x OTC = 720. OTC = 109. 90 MR = 504. ITP p. 39. .Also "if we take the significant dictum 'know rhyself and consider it. u-e niitsm'r interpret itfrom an ascetical standpoint. It does not b>' an> means signifi" the kind of self-knowledge advocated by our modem hjpochondriacs. humorists, and 'Heatttotimontmens' [self-torturers], but quite simply means: pay some attention to yourself, watch what you are doing so that \ ou come to realize who \ ou stand vis-a-ris your fellows and the world in general. This needs no psychological self-torture'. an\-capable person knows and appreciates this. It is good advice and of the greatest practical advantage to everyone I.MR = 657)." He objects only to those isolating tendencies of the subjective sciences and psychologies thatare heirto the fateful alienation, if notdivorce, of the egofrom theworld. ECK.April 10. 1829: OTC# . ITP p. 39. See also Goethe's ad\ ice to the \ oung Schopenhauer ( ). MR = 935: the whole passage reads"...let him find a girl or a world, no matter which, and he will become whole." This is t>pical (see Eric Heller. "Goethe in Marienbad." ThePoet's Self and ThePoem. London. 1976). MR # 442 ("Try to do \our dut\- and \ou'll soon disco\er what \ou're like."): also #= 770. 935: ECK Januar\"29. 1826. 96 ^ ECKFebruar\ 13. 1829. HN p. 226: Levine. The Political Philosophy of Sature. p. 173. .Also ECK October 18. 1827: In a conversation with Hegel about the potential tor modem sophistry of the "dialectic disease." Goethe sa\s: "Let us only hope that these intellectual arts and de.vterities are not frequentb misused, and emplo\ edto make the false true and the true false The study of nature preserves me from such a disease. For here we have to deal with the infinitely and etemalb" true, which throws off as incapable e\'eryone who does not proceed purely and honestly with the treatment and observ ation of his subject. I am also certain that man\- a dialectic disease would find a wholesome remedy in the stud\ of nature." ^ ECK Januarv 2. 1824; also .March 12. 1828. ^ .And one lunher question: now that "nature" is at risk of being obscured b\" modem thought and being made artificial b\ modem technological advances, can it yet serve as a point of reference any longer, not to mention a standard? Twilight oftheIdols, or How to Philosophize l^lth a Hanmxer [1889). = 49. pp. 102-3: cf. MR=864. ECK January2. 1824: letterto Zelter.June 18. 1831 (in HN p. 27). See also ECK Januaiy 24. 1825. October 12. 1825: February 1. 1827; October 18. 1827; February 12. 1827; MR =191 and 1121. See Nietzsche. Zaraihustra This affirmation is what Nietzsche found most admirable, indeed he was envious of this, for it was not available to him. See Levine. Afterword: Goethe and Sietzsche. ".-I ff'orld of Worldless Truths, .An Invitation to Philosophy." KU A More Intense Chemical Activityin Primordial Maner, SS, p. 137. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College at the Santa Fe, NM campus. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Levine, David Lawrence Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003-08-29 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. 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Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College at the Santa Fe, NM campus. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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