COVID NOTICE: COURSES WILL PROCEED ONLINE-ONLY FOR THE REST OF 2020. IN 2021 WE EXPECT TO RETURN TO FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES IN LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, WITH AN ONLINE OPTION FOR ALL CLASSES EXCEPT Platonic Esoteric Geometry WHERE HANDS-ON INSTRUCTION IS ESSENTIAL.
READING PLATO: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Curious about philosophy? Let Plato teach you.
Join us reading and discussing the famous dialogues where Socrates stands accused of corrupting the youth of Athens.
- Six weekly small-group sessions suitable for beginners
- Read a set passage before the evening talk and discussion
- All readings from The Last Days of Socrates
(available for purchase)
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BOOKINGS NOW OPEN FOR CLASS DURING OUR TWILIGHT SESSIONS
online from Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2020, 6:30 – 8pm (Eastern Australian time)
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Platonism and Christianity
Discover just how much Plato and Platonism shaped Christian doctrine
- Six weekly online lectures
- Plenty of time for questions and discussion
- Some knowledge of Plato and/or Christianity recommended but not essential
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BOOKINGS NOW OPEN FOR CLASS DURING OUR TWILIGHT SESSIONS
online from Monday, 9 Nov, 2020, 6:30 – 8pm (Melbourne time)
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PLATO’S REPUBLIC
Find out why this is one of the most famous and influential books in the Western tradition.
Also discover some of its esoteric secrets.
(Not for beginners: take Reading Plato first)
- Six weekly small-group sessions for continuing students
- All readings from The Republic (available for purchase)
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This class will ran again in Feb-Mar 2021. Watch this space for details or subscribe to our blog.
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PLATONIC LOVE
Love, sex, booze, rhetoric and winged chariots: reading the Symposium and Phaedrus
(Not for beginners: take Reading Plato first.)
- Six weekly small-group sessions for continuing students
- All readings from Symposium and Phaedrus (available for purchase)
- Course outline available soon
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This class will ran again in Autumn 2021. Watch this space for details or subscribe to our blog.
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PLATONIC ESOTERIC GEOMETRY
(Not for beginners: take Reading Plato first.)
- Six weekly small-group sessions
- Compass, rule, paper and all other materials provided
Take this course to:
- Practice the geometry that informs Plato’s dialogues
- Get in touch with the universal form of experience through geometric drawing
- Open your eyes to similarity and self-similarity in nature, art and architecture
- Learn the ancient art of geometry without the tyranny of scale and without the distraction of numbers or algebra
- Discover why geometry is the gateway to Platonism.
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This class will ran in Feb-Mar 2021 COVID face-to-face-only in Lonsdale Street Melbourne, restrictions permitting. Watch this space for details or subscribe to our blog.