Summer Colloquia

We have some all-star summer reading ahead of us! Please invite friends (everybody needs great literature!)  & enjoy digging into to these guys listed below. Plan on the 3rd Friday each month, unless you hear differently. That puts our dates at June 20, July 19, August 15 & September 19. Feel free to bring a snack to share & we'll see you at the Merten's @ 7:30!

June SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Vol. 27, pp. 29-72 
LOCKE: CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT [Second Essay] Vol. 35, pp. 25-81 

July ROUSSEAU: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT [Book I-II] Vol. 38, pp. 387-406 
GIBBON: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE [Ch. 15-16] Vol. 40, pp. 179-234 

August THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITU- 
TION OP THE UNITED STATES, THE FEDERALIST [Numbers i-io, 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71] Vol. 43, pp. 1-3, 11-20, 29-53, 62-66, 103-105, 153-156, 162-165, 205-216 

September SMITH: THE WEALTH OF NATIONS [Introduction Book I, 
Ch. 9 ] Vol. 39, pp. 1-41 
MARX-ENGELS: MANIFESTO OP THE COMMUNIST PARTY Vol. 50, pp. 415-434 

April & May & Questions for You

Two questions: 

1) Do you want to split these up and discuss half each month or meet in May and discuss them all?

2) Is there anyone who hasn't led a discussion yet who would lead this/these or June, July or August's colloquia?

April & May MONTAIGNE: ESSAYS [Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received; Of Pedantry; Of the Education of Children; That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals; That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Upon Some Verses of Virgil] Vol. 25, pp. 42-51, 55-82, 91-98, 115-125, 406-434 

March Read

Friday, February 21, colloquium on Books I & I I of Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel. 7:30 @ Merton unless I hear differently. I've wanted to know more about this autor & title for years & never took time to check him & it out. I'm looking forward to downloading & reading it when I finish this post!

February Date Change & Readings

The plan is to meet on the 3rd Friday on the month now but this month the Mertens will be out of town and we so love having it at their home that we will still meet there, just on the next Friday, February 28th. The readings will be thrilling as always, if you consider it thrilling studying some of the most history-changing, courageous people to have ever lived and left their words for posterity.

February ST. AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS [Book I-VIII] Vol. 1 8, pp. i -6 1 
MACHIAVELLI: THE PRINCE Vol. 23, pp. 1-37

Enjoy and discuss on here as you please.

Oh, and we'll bring a little something for the sweet tooth. See you there!

Date Change & January 2014 Readings

Readings:

NEW TESTAMENT [The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The
Acts of the Apostles]
FYI You can always look at the first post on here called "The Plan" to see what we are or will be reading if I am being...slow.

Date Change:

We have been meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Our most regular attendees agreed that Fridays would work as well or better for them so we made a change. This month we will meet in our usual location, the Merton's, at our usual time, 7:30, but we we meet the Friday after we were going to meet. That makes it the 24th of January and we hope to see you there. After this month, we will meet on 3rd Fridays:

Feb. 21, March 21, April 18, May 16 and so on. 

I think meeting on the weekends will make it feel even more social. I like it.

December 17th, 7:30!

December ARISTOTLE: POLITICS [Book I] Vol. 9, pp. 445-455 
PLUTARCH: THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND 
ROMANS [Lycurgus, Numa Pompilius, Lycurgus and Numa Com- 
pared, Alexander, Caesar] Vol. 14, pp. 32-64, 540-604 

(Oh goodness! Plutarch! Let's (me) get reading this so that we can really soak it up.)

Online Discussion Soon

CANCELLED - Comment if interested in doing this in the future

Our online discussions will begin next Wednesday, November 13th! To accommodate those of you from across the country who want to be involved, we will begin at 6 pm Pacific time, so translate that to your time zone, if needed. The ONLINE (not live) discussion readings for this month are as follows:

PLATO: APOLOGY, CRITO Vol. 7, pp. 200-219

ARISTOPHANES: CLOUDS, LYSISTRATA Vol. 5, pp. 488-506, 583-599 

We will meet via zoom.us. Comment now, or sometime before the day of the colloquium, if you'd like to be invited or get a link or however we will get on there. These readings are super-interesting. You may want to check out the other posts and comments about them. Looking forward to it!