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What does music mean?
Typescript of a lecture delivered on January 16, 2015 by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Philosophy and the Cave Wall: Plato and Kant on the Form of the Given
Typescript of a lecture delivered on March 31, 2023, by Matthew Caswell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Caswell describes his lecture: "The lecture will compare inquiries into the nature of sensibility offered by Plato, and by Kant.…
"A Monument Without a Tomb:" St. John's Celebrates Major Scenes from Shakespeare's First Folio
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Charlie Barrett, Krishnan Venkatesh, & Jay Smith as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In his preface to the…
Tutor Panel "On Reading Homer"
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Chris Cohoon, Claudia Hauer, David McDonald and Sarah Stickney on September 2, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event:…
Some Socratic aspects of Wittgenstein
Audio recording of a lecture given on May 1, 2015 by James Conant as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A Conversation with Alfredo Corchado on "Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration" and Border and Immigration Politics and Journalism
Audio recording on an online discussion with Alfredo Corchado held on October 2, 2020 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series and the Carol J. Worrell Annual Series on Literature with student and alumni co-moderators David Adah-Ogoh, Onysha…
Beyond reductionism : biology as a liberal art
Audio recording of a panel discussion that took place on April 5, 2013 as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Anatomy of a scandal : self-dismemberment in the Gospel of Matthew (and in Gogol's "The Nose")
Transcript of a lecture given on October 27, 2000 by John Cornell as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Philosophy and resurrection : Spinoza's account of Christianity
Transcript of a lecture given on October 11, 2002 by John Cornell as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Faustian Phenomena: Goethe on Plants, Animals, and Modern Biologists
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor John Cornell on October 28, 2022 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Goethe’s character Faust – based on the medieval legend about…
Who Should Elect the President?
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 16, 2016 by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Frederick Douglass on Force and Persuasion
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 21, 1997, by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Three love poems by Robert Frost
Transcript of a lecture given on September 02, 1994 by William Darkey.
A walk through Andrew Marvell's garden
Transcript of a lecture given in 1997 by William Darkey.
Prefacing the Absolute in Hegel's Phenomenology
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on October 2, 2015, by Andrew Alexander Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Davis describes his lecture: "Hegel claims that truth must be presented in a system. He also claims that there can be no…
Davis describes his lecture: "Hegel claims that truth must be presented in a system. He also claims that there can be no…
Is Man the Measure of All Things? Plato's Analysis of Relativism
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 13, 2012, by Matthew Davis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Freedom, the liberal arts, and St. John's College
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 28, 2015 by Matthew Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Franklin, autobiography, and the St. John's program
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 26, 2016 by Matthew Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Divided souls : an introduction to The Merchant of Venice
Audio recording of a lecture given on August 25, 2017 by Matthew Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Speaking of the dead : Plato's Menexenus
Audio recording of a lecture given on October 28, 2016 by Michael Davis as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.