What we’re about
Join us if you're interested in philosophy, literature, film, and socializing. This group will be for people who want to talk about books and movies that explore life's big questions. We won't presuppose any definite answers. It's more about the journey than the destination.
We will have regular meetups with different formats. Once a month we will meet to discuss a book or selection from a book. Readings will vary widely, ranging from ancient philosophy and literature to contemporary fiction and nonfiction. Each month, we will also have social gatherings, film outings, and open discussion meetups.
We've selected an initial list of readings from the core curriculum reading list at Columbia University. Once we get close to the end of this initial list, we will meet as a group to decide future readings.
Initial Reading List:
-Aristophanes: The Clouds
-Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo
-William Shakespeare: King Lear
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
-Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
-Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
-Sigmund Freud: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
-W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
-Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
-Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Upcoming events (4)
See all- The Death Cafe Strikes BackAmélie's French Bakery & Café | Park Road, Charlotte, NC
This continuing event is inspired by Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz’s cafe mortel and the broader global Death Cafe movement.
A Death Cafe is a casual social gathering, usually done over food and drink, meant to assist people with creating a nurturing and supportive environment for participants to freely discuss their understanding, thoughts, dreams, fears and any other aspects of death and dying.
We invite you to join us for a loosely structured open discussion (with inspirational aid through conversation-prompting questions taken from The Death Deck).
- Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of MoralsAmélie's French Bakery & Café | Park Road, Charlotte, NC
Reading: On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132626.On_the_Genealogy_of_Morals_Ecce_Homo
Partially Examined Life podcase episode:
Episode 11: Nietzsche’s Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway? | The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and BlogFrom back cover: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is Nietzsche's major work on ethics. It shows him using philosophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new directions to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience; the third with ascetic ideals-not only in religion but also in the academy.
Join us for a discussion of this controversial and highly influential work of philosophy.
