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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Elie Wiesel, Night
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Flannery O'Connor
The Lame Shall Enter First ,
A Good Man is Hard to Find, &
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Special Event
November 9th-10th, 2007
A Weekend with Eva Brann
Lecture on November 9th:
Aeschylus Eumenides : Modernity and Patriotism - held at Thomas Aquinas College
Seminar on Saturday, November 10th:
Aeschylus - The Persians
Thucydides - Selection from
History of the Peloponnesian War
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
A Day on T . S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral
The Waste Land
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Continuing Theme on Ethics
Sophocles - Antigone
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Lecture: Two Paradigms of Ethical Reflection by Mike McLean, Ph.D., Dean, Thomas Aquinas College
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Continuing Theme on Ethics
Machiavelli - The Prince, Entire work
February 9-10, 2007
Aristotle -
Nicomachean Ethics, Books I-III
January 13-14, 2007
A Weekend on Borges
From Collected Fictions
The Circular Ruins, Ragnarök, The Maker, The Aleph, Borges and I, August 25-1983, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Witness, Everything and Nothing
November 11-12, 2006
Approaches to God
St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae,
Part One, Chapter 13 - Articles 1-6, and 12
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed,
Part One, Chapters 50-60
October 20-21, 2006
Russian Short Stories IV
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dostoevsky, The Gentle Creature
This seminar weekend will kick off with a dinner gathering on Friday night, beginning at 5:00pm, followed by a performance of the Valamm Ensemble from Russia, held at Thomas Aquinas College.
Fundamental Seminars Program
September 23-24, 2006
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook
March 17-18, 2006
Liberty II
Ongoing series on Liberty, examining different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order.
Thomas Aquinas - selections from the Treatise on Law
Session one: Q. 90 articles 1-4; Q. 91 articles 1-4; Q. 92 article 1.
Session two: Q. 94 articles 1-6; Q. 95 articles 1-2.
Session three: Q. 96 articles 1-6; Q. 97 articles 1-4
February 11-12, 2006
Phenomenology III
Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology.
Heidegger - further selections from Being and Time.
January 7-8, 2006
A Weekend on James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
December 17-18, 2005
Russian Short Stories III
Tolstoy, Father Sergius
Gogol, The Portrait
Chekhov, The Bet
One-Day Seminar
November 12, 2005
Liberty I
The first in an ongoing series on Liberty. This series will examine different views of freedom, responsibility, human happiness, and the providential order.
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
October 1-2, 2005
Phenomenology II
Ongoing series on the underlying philosophical principles and developments of twentieth-century phenomenology.
Heidegger - selections from Being and Time
August 27-28, 2005
The Nature of Greek Tragedy
Aristotle, Poetics (chapters 1-18)
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
(chapters 1-15)
Euripides, Hippolytus (entire play)
One-Day Seminar
The Divine Comedy III
Dante, Paradise
April 23-24, 2005
Beginning Series on Phenomenology
The Essential Husserl
Session One: pages 60-72
Session Two: pages 72-91
Session Three: 135-152 & 158-160
One-Day Seminar
March 19, 2005
The Passion of Christ
Film: The Passion of the Christ
The Gospel of Luke - entire work
The Gospel of John - Chapter 2, versus 1-11, and Chapters 13-19
The Gospel of Mathew - Chapters 26-27
January 15, 2005
Toni Morrison, Beloved
entire work
One-Day Seminar
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Purgatory
One-Day Seminar
October 16, 2004
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Inferno - Held at Thomas Aquinas College
One-Day Seminar
September 25, 2004
Tolstoy, War and Peace
entire work
June 12-13, 2004
Special Event
A Weekend on Music
Texts:
Man the Musician (selections)
by Victor Zuckerkandl &
Thinking About Music (selections)
by Lewis Rowell
Music selections include:
Josquin Desprez · Kyrie
Wolfgang Mozart · Menuetto, K. 355,
Elliott Carter · Poems by Frost, Bishop, etc. set to music
Saturday Evening June 12th
Private lecture and discussion by Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival Artistic Director Daniel Kepl followed by an evening performance focusing on American composers, with an emphasis on music for cellos.
May 1-2, 2004
Faust
Christopher Marlowe:
Dr. Faustus - (A-Text version only)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Faust I - (complete)
Faust II - (acts IV and V)
March 19-20, 2004
The American Novel
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Willa Cather, My Antonia
February 20-21, 2004
The Book of Job
January 17, 2004
One-Day Seminar
James Joyce, Dubliners
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November 22-23, 2003
Transgression, Punishment, and Mercy · William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Measure for Measure
The Winter's Tale
October 11-12, 2003
Russian Short Stories II
Tolstoy , The Devil
Chekov , The Black Monk
Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
September 6-7, 2003
The Gospel According to John
May 23-24, 2003
When is War Justified
Aquinas, On War, and On Murder
Wendell Berry, The Failure of War
James Sterba, Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists
April 25-26, 2003
Is Lying Justifiable
Twain, Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
Aquinas, On Lying
Kant, On the Supposed Right to Lie
March 1-2, 2003
Satire and the Human Condition
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
January 17-18, 2003
Is Religious Belief Reasonable
Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 1
Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 2
December 13-14, 2002
Justice and the Political Order Continued · Plato, The Republic VI-X
October 12, 2002
One-Day Intensive
The Nature of Sensation
Aristotle, On the Soul, Book Two
(sections 5, 6, 7, & 12 only)
Lecture: "Are Sensible Qualities Real?" - by Dr. Christopher Decaen
Dinner and Reception follow
November 23-24, 2002
Justice and the Political Order
Plato, The Republic I-V
September 6-7, 2002
Vengeance and Justice
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
June 28-29, 2002
The Nature of Comedy
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Chaucer, The Miller's Tale & The Reeve's Tale
Essays from Bergson, Goldsmith, & Hazlitt
One-Day Intensive
May 11, 2002
Aristotle, On the Soul
Book One Chapters 1-5,
Book Two Chapters 1-2
Lecture: "Thomistic Biology as an Antidote to the Reductionism of Modern Science" - by Dr. William Carroll of
Cornell College, Iowa
Dinner and Reception follow
One-Day Intensive
One-Day Intensive
March 23, 2002
Aristotle, On Nature and Causality
Book Two, Chapters 1, 3
Book Two, Chapters 4-6, 8
Lecture: "Natures Act for an End"
by Dr. Robert Augros of
St. Anselm College, New Hampshire
Dinner and Reception follow
February 23-24, 2002
Aristotle, On the Principles of Nature
Book One, Chapters 1, 5-6
Book One, Chapter 7
Book One, Chapters 8-9
January 19-20, 2002
Human Suffering
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
The Bible, The Book of Job
Epictetus, The Handbook
December 14-15, 2001
Existentialism
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Sartre, No Exit and The Flies
Camus, The Stranger
November 17-18, 2001
Russian Short Stories
Gogol, The Nose, The Overcoat, The Calash
Chekhov, The Kiss, Gooseberries, The Bishop
Tolstoy, Master and Man
September 22-23, 2001
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
July 6 and 7, 2001
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
June 2 and 3, 2001
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
March 16 and 17, 2001
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (On Friendship)
Bk. VIII, Chapters 1-8
Bk. VIII, Chapter 9 – Bk. IX, Chapter 3
Bk. IX, Chapters 4-12
January 20 and 21, 2001
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
December 15 and 16, 2000
Plato and Aristophanes
Plato, Protagoras
Aristophanes, The Clouds
November 17 and 18, 2000
Descartes, Meditations Concerning First Philosophy
September 22 and 23, 2000
The Nature of Poetry
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1-6
Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 7-15
Euripides, Hippolytus
July 8 and 9, 2000
Aristotle, Ethics I-III
June 16 and 17, 2000
Tyranny and Justice
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship and Summa Theologiae (selections)
Machiavelli, The Prince
March 17 and 18, 2000
The Short Story
Flaubert, A Simple Heart and
St. Jullian Hospitalier
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Enduring Chill
January 28 and 29, 2000
Augustine, The Confessions
November 13 and 14, 1999
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
September 24 and 25, 1999
The Political Order
Aristotle, Politics (selections)
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Declaration of Independence and
The Federalist Papers (1, 10, 51)
June 18 and 19, 1999
Faith and Reason
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
St. Paul, Letter to the Galatians
Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians
April 23 and 24, 1999
The Origin of Knowledge
Plato, Meno
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
Descartes, Discourse on Method
March 12 and 13, 1999
Law and Conscience
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, Apology and Crito
Lincoln, selections
January 29 and 30, 1999
Human Action
The Holy Bible, Genesis, Chapters 1-25 v.11
Pre-Socratics and Epicurus
Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis
December 4 and 5, 1998
Love
Plato, Symposium
C. S. Lewis, Four Loves
Shakespeare, Othello
November 13 and 14, 1998
Does God Exist?
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ques. 2
September 25 and 26, 1998
Morality and Human Action
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
St. Thomas Aquinas, On Homicide
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