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Evening class

Winter term enrolments now open

Enrolments are now open for Winter evening classes starting the week of Monday, 11 July 2022. Gorgias: persuasion, power & passion reads one of Plato’s most accessible dialogues (from Wednesday 13 July). This course is suitable for beginners and continuing students. Platonism & Christianity surveys the influence of Platonism on Read more

By Bernie Lewin, 3 years22 June 2022 ago
Social Event

Platonic Academy Autumn Term Salon

Afternoon tea and at-home movie screening in Brunswick from 2pm Sat 4 June. RSVP essential for attendance. As Autumn Term comes to a close, all past and present students are invited to afternoon tea from 2pm on Saturday, 4 June 2022. You might want to stay on for the at-home Read more

By Bernie Lewin, 3 years29 May 2022 ago
History

A remedy for enthusiasm: why modern science could not be Platonic

Where I grew up, priests were not the least bit interested in philosophy, nor the history of ideas. Then I met the Orthodox. Then I met the Rumanian-trained Orthodox priest Doru Costache, author of Humankind and the Cosmo. Doru took an interested in my thoughts on why Western science became Read more

By Bernie Lewin, 3 years19 May 2022 ago

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