One idea, one short text sent out beforehand, and no lecture at any point.
A philosophy night takes a single question, of the kind that will not resolve, and gives it two hours. A week beforehand we email everyone a text of six to ten pages. Reading it is not compulsory, but the evening assumes it.
Nobody stands at the front. Stelios, who has run these since 2018, sits in the circle like everyone else and mostly asks the second question rather than the first.
Get on the listThe failure mode of an evening like this is a seminar. The remedy is that nobody may cite anything they have not read, and everybody may say they do not know.Stelios Roussos
Is attention something you spend, something you give, or something done to you?
What exactly binds you when you bind your future self?
When a sentence moves between languages, what is the thing that is supposed to survive?
Free, and booking only so that we know how many chairs to carry up the stairs.
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