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First Friday Lectures
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A Christian Mystic Reads Homer: Simone Weil on ‘The Iliad’
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Radical Evil from Kant to Nuclearism
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Dostoevsky and the Problem of Evil
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
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“Herodotus Philobarbaros”
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No One Wants Bad Things: Desire in Plato’s Meno
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The Song of Roland Across Time
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Goethe's Hope
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First Friday Lecture: Introduction to the Rigveda and Upanishads
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First Friday Lecture: Funeral Games in the Iliad
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FFL: “Seeking the land of the Greeks in my soul”: Ancient Greece in German Culture around 1800
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April First Friday Lecture: Three Modes of Persuasion in Plato's Phaedo
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March First Friday Lecture: Those Who Have Dared to Hymn Love’s Praises
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Feb First Friday: The Allegory of Nature in the Romance of the Rose & The Plaint of Nature Victor
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January 2024 First Friday Lecture: Avast! Moby Dick & the Scales of Natural History
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December 2023 First Friday: Why the Basic Program Begins with Ancient Greek Drama & Philosophy
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November 2023 First Friday Lecture: From Mythos to Logos
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2023 October First Friday Lecture: Rome on the Couch
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September 2023 First Friday Lecture-- Multiplicity: Kierkegaard, Pessoa, Borges
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2023 June First Friday Pearson Prometheus
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April 2022 First Friday Lecture - Thucydides, Human Nature, and International Politics
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2023 May First Friday Lecture From Dominion to Behemoth The Relationship Between Humans and Animal
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April 2023 First Friday Lecture: A Testimonial Analysis of the Black Existence & the Western Canon
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Feb. '23 First Friday Lecture: Publius, Tocqueville, & Burke on Federalism, Democracy and Revolution
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January 2023 First Friday Lecture: Reading for Freedom and Equality in the Basic Program
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December 2022 First Friday Lecture - Great Books and Big Lies “Theirs” and “Ours”
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November 2022 First Friday Lecture - Boredom: From Aristotle to David Foster Wallace
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September 2022 First Friday Lecture - The Stoic Approach to Happiness
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June 2022 First Friday Lecture - Homer’s Humanity: Moments of Grace in The Iliad
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May 2022 First Friday Lecture - Accounting for Taste: David Hume on Authority in Aesthetic Judgment
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September 2021 First Friday Lecture - Virtue as Frenzy at the End of Plato’s Meno
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January 2022 First Friday Lecture - Machiavelli's Meanings
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February 2022 First Friday Lecture - The Death and Rebirth of Vergil
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December 2021 First Friday Lecture - Why So Many Ancient Greeks?
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November 2021 First Friday Lecture - Polybius on the Roman Constitution
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October 2021 First Friday Lecture - Wallace Stevens and Our Redemption Through Poetry
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February 2021 First Friday Lecture - Time Made Manifest: Haunting and Possession in Beloved
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