Reading Groups for the 1st-Week of November

Reading Groups for the 1st-Week of November

Wednesday

• 20:30 GMT - Stirner (new time, only for this week)

                         ‣ reading: The Ego and Its Own

Thursday

• 20:00 GMT - Epistemology Special Event:

                          ‣Extract by Paul Feyerabend 

                          ‣ Extract by Allan Chalmers on Feyerabend


Friday

• 14:00 GMT - Nietzsche

                         ‣ Review of On the Use and Abuse of History 

NEW

• 19.30 GMT - Marxism

 ‣ The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels

• 23:00 GMT - Taoism

                         ‣ reading: The Book of Chuang Tzu, chapter 4

                         (Martin Palmer translation)


Saturday

• 14:00 GMT - Plato (new time, only for this week)

                         ‣ reading: The Republic, Book VI

• 16.00 GMT - Camus (Awaiting confirmation)

                         ‣ reading: The Myth of Sisyphus

 NEW

• 18.00 GMT - Aristotle (new time, only for this week)

                          ‣ Nicomachean Ethics


• 19:30 GMT - Special Event: film discussion (new time, only for this week)

                         ‣400 Blows

                          by François Truffaut

Sunday

• 17:00 GMT - Stoicism (new time, only for this week)

                          ‣ reading: The Enchiridion by Epictetus

• 20:30 GMT- Introduction to philosophy (new time, only for this week)

                           ‣ reading: Raymong Geuss Changing the Subject 

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