Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Sixth class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the European Enlightenment.
Can music express truth?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
What is the Point of Nonviolence?
Nonviolence gets invoked constantly. Sometimes as moral high ground, other times as strategy, as identity, even as an accusation. Philosofarian's Seth Tichenor brings the question to Fort George: what does nonviolence actually mean, what does it demand, and does the concept hold up under scrutiny?
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Seventh class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the Romantic Era
Is there a heirarchy to morality?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Last class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the (post) Modern Era
How accurate can language be?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
What is community?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
What exactly is death?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Fifth class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Ancient and Medieval Indian Aesthetic Thought
Scoundrels
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics?
Ancient and Medieval Japanese Aesthetic Thought
Scoundrels
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Ancient and Medieval Chinese Aesthetics
Towards a More Perfect Union: Can a Society Outgrow the Ideas that Founded it?
The day after What the Constitution Means to Me closes, join Philosofarian and members of the cast for a 30-minute primer and a facilitated conversation. When the play asks “abolish or amend?”, we’ll open a third door: widening the frame, testing the assumptions, and asking what a “more perfect union” could require now.
What is the relationship between comedy and philosophy?
What’s the relationship between comedy and philosophy?
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? First Class of the Second Series.
The Story of Buddhism in China
How did China Make Sense of Buddhism?
(Class 3 of 11)
Today will focus on the rise of Mahayana Buddhism and Prajñaparimita.
This course is taught through Encore Learn - Exploring new concepts of retirement education.
Where is the healthy balance between openness and restriction of information in society?
Where is the healthy balance between openness and restriction of information in society?
Can Latin America Teach us how Power Hides?
Power doesn’t always announce itself. Kenny Knowlton explores how it hides in ordinary life, shaping what feels normal, inevitable, or hard to change.
Aesthetics: Philosophy for People Who Art
What does it mean to be creative?
Session 8 of 8
Aesthetics: Philosophy for People Who Art
What is the place of art in society?
Session 7 of 8
Aesthetics: Philosophy for People Who Art
Why respond emotionally to art?
Session 6 of 8
Why do we Need Meaningful Work?
Wit and Wisdom Talk Series
Why do we Need Meaningful Work?
We all have to work to make a living, but why do we care whether or not that work is meaningful? What, exactly, is work & what makes it meaningful? Who gets to decide what counts as meaningful work & how might they do it? And, of course, what difference does it make whether our work is meaningful or not?
Aesthetics: Philosophy for People Who Art
What is an “artist” and can it be defined?
(session 3 of 8)
