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Entries from September 2007

Podcast: Philosophy Department’s List of Influential Books

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

The members of the Philosophy Department were asked to talk about a book that has influenced them. Here are the results:
You can listen to the Podcast here.
David Banach- The Divine Comedy   By: Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy on Amazon.com
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James Mahoney- Images of Hope   By: William Lynch
 Images of Hope on [...]

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Tags: Book Lists · Podcasts

Nietzsche and Family Circus!

September 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Danielle van Dusen sent me this link to a site that generates random Nietzsche quotes as captions for randomly chosen Family Circus cartoons.
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/.
The results are a whole new category of greatness! Enjoy.

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Tags: Humor

Great Books Society Meeting

September 1st, 2007 · No Comments

The Anselmian Great Books Society will be meeting

September 29th at 6:30 pm at Professor Kevin Staley’s house

Those who wish to attend, please familiarize yourself with the Italian novel Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi and the issues it raises:
Living in poverty and the role we play as healthy, well-off Americans
The overwhelming despair of the [...]

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Tags: Great Books Society · News