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Coming Courses
Foundations of Liberty, Winter 2012
Book Discussion Group, Winter Fall 2012
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Foundations of Liberty
A Course of Lectures for Winter 2012 with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke
The intellectual crisis of the modern world is the conflict between the physical sciences and the basic human values. Physics and chemistry, together with much of biology, have been immensely successful in giving us knowledge of the world we live in. Yet they cannot tell the difference between a human being and a rock, except incidentally. All the features of human beings that make us distinctively human-being alive, having a mind, consciousness and subjectivity, possessing free will, moral virtue and moral principle, the sense of beauty, feelings, and many other qualities-are invisible to science and do not exist for it. This contradiction has given us a deeply impoverished conception of ourselves and our world. Our first aim in these lectures is to trace the sequence of historical events by which this state of affairs developed. It began with Socrates.
Location: 104 Haverford Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $180.00 for the whole series.
or $15.00 per lecture.
The lectures will be broadcast via webinar. The cost is the same.
Registration is necessary. You can register for each lecture individually or for the series. Register by email to wynnewood@wynnewood.org or by telephone at 610-642-0618.
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Book Discussion Group
Winter 2012
The members of the group decided at the last meeting to discuss Murray Rothbard's Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011).
This fascinating book is directly relevant to recent events. It sheds light on a large area of U.S. government action that may surprise many Americans.
"The idea that corporate interests, banking elites and politicians conspire to set U.S. policy is at once obvious and beyond the pale. " From the preface by Anthony Gregory.
Location: 104 Haverford Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096.
Date: Beginning Thursday, January 26.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
There is no fee for participation.
Open, but if you wish to come, please register to click here.
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