NOTE: COURSES WILL PROCEED ONLINE DURING MELBOURNE CORVID RESTRICTIONS. ONLY Platonic Esoteric Geometry IS DEFERRED, AS HANDS-ON INSTRUCTION IS REQUIRED.
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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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 ran in Winter 2020 and will run again in the summer. Watch this space for details.
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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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SPRING CLASS NOW AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING
Tuesday nights from 8 September 2020, 6.30 – 8pm (Eastern Australia Time)
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This course is scheduled to run again in 2021. Watch this space for details.
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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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COURSE DEFERRED UNTIL THE LIFTING OF CORVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, AS HANDS-ON INSTRUCTION IS REQUIRED.