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LECTURES AVAILABLE

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Stoicism

 

ST1

Stoicism 101: Practical Wisdom from Zeno to Aurelius

ST2

Comparing Stoicism to Minimalism: Two Paths to Virtue (As presented at Stoicon 2018 at the University of London)

ST3

Adapting the Enchiridion to Modern Life (The wisdom of Epictetus)

ST4

Reading Letters from a Stoic (The works of Seneca The Younger)

ST5

Meditations for a Modern Stoic (Applying the diary of Marcus Aurelius to Modern Living)

ST6

A Guide to the Good Life (A review of Bill Irvine's book on Modern Stoicism)

ST7

Stoicism and the Holocaust: Engaging Young People in Philosophy with Viktor Frankl's Writings
(As presented at Stoicon-X Athens 2019)

ST8

Stoic Discipline: The 3/4/5 Method, based on 6 years of discussions at Orlando Stoics
(As presented to the Univ. of Toronto)

American
Transcendentalism

 

TR1

Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

TR2

Thoreau and Transcendence

TR3

What did Emerson say? (Emerson's Divinity School Address)

TR4

Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists

Other Topics

 

X1

Redefining Equality: Balancing the Concepts of Freedom and Equality

X2

Is Forgiveness Disappearing Today?

X3

Unreason: Why are we Ignoring Facts in this Age of Science and Technology?

X4

Unsatisfied: Can We Buy Our Way To Happiness?

X5

Unsocial: How Can We Modernize the Social Contract? (The Works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau)

X6

Unsocial: What Role do Women Play in the Social Contract? (The Works of Wollstonecraft, Pateman, Held, Di Stefano)

X7

100 Years of Science: Stranger Than Fiction (How Einstein's Equations Were Proven By Solar Eclipses,
Why Evidence Was Needed To Prove the K-T Extinction Event)

X8

Death by Despair: Are American Men Dying from Desperation?

X9

The Future of Peace: Linking this Global Issue to Poverty, Education, War, and Other Factors