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The Future of Work is Grey | Dan Pontefract in Conversation at the University of Chicago

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Polybius and Josephus on the Roman Empire | Zoë Eisenman | First Friday Lecture

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Some Ways Kant’s First Critique Sets Up His Ethics | Clare Pearson | First Friday Lecture

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Accounting for Taste: David Hume on Authority in Aesthetic Judgment | Noah Chafets | First Friday

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The Stoic Approach to Happiness | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Boredom: From Aristotle to David Foster Wallace | Katia Mitova | First Friday Lecture

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Reading for Freedom and Equality in the Basic Program | Kendall Sharp | First Friday Lecture

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Great Books and Big Lies: “Theirs” and “Ours” | Adam Rose | First Friday Lecture

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Publius, Tocqueville, & Burke on Federalism, Democracy and Revolution | Joseph Alulis | First Friday

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Reading Great Books Against Apocalypse | Amy Thomas Elder | First Friday Lecture

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The Graham School Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults

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Philosophy Before Socrates: The Origins of Western Thought | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Securing the Future: Celebrating 80 Years of the Basic Program at the Graham School

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Free Men and Natural Slaves in Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and Aristotle’s ‘Politics’ | Kendall Sharp | FFL

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A Christian Mystic Reads Homer: Simone Weil on ‘The Iliad’ | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Radical Evil from Kant to Nuclearism | Amy Thomas Elder | First Friday Lecture

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Dostoevsky and the Problem of Evil | Clare Pearson | First Friday Lecture

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Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism | David Shiner | First Friday Lecture

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Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God | Richard Hoskins | First Friday Lecture

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Herodotus as a Lover of Barbarians, or "Philobarbaros" | Cynthia Rutz | First Friday Lecture

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No One Wants Bad Things: Desire in Plato’s Meno | Noah Chafets | First Friday Lecture

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The Song of Roland Across Time | Jacqueline Victor | First Friday Lecture

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Goethe's Hope | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Introduction to the Rig Veda and Upanishads | Kendall Sharp | First Friday Lecture

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Funeral Games in the Iliad | Noah Chafets | First Friday Lecture

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Why Did German Artists Around 1800 Turn to Ancient Greece? | Simon Friedland | First Friday Lecture

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Three Modes of Persuasion in Plato's Phaedo | Zoë Eisenman | First Friday Lecture

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Those Who Have Dared to Hymn Love’s Praises: A Symposium on Black Philosophies of Love | FFL

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The Allegory of Nature in the Romance of the Rose & The Plaint of Nature | Jacqueline Victor | FFL

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Avast! Moby Dick & the Scales of Natural History | Julia Mueller | First Friday Lecture

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