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What One Should Learn From Artists

By dog | Published: December 6, 2011

November 8, 2010 – Professor Joshua Landy introduces his lecture on Friedrich Nietzche’s The Gay Science from “The Art of Living,” a first-year Introduction to Humanities course and examines the ways in which life can be transformed by art. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Human Experience at Stanford: humanexperience.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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A Life of Reason? Socrates vs. Alcibiades

By dog | Published: December 6, 2011

September 29, 2010 – Professor R. Lanier Anderson questions the characters Socrates claim in Plato’s Symposium that we only desire what we lack. The excerpt is from a lecture from “The Art of Living,” a first-year Introduction to Humanities course examines the ways art can lead to a well-lived life. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Human [...]

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The Narrative Construction of the Self

By dog | Published: December 6, 2011

November 17, 2010 – Professor Kenneth Taylor discusses the “Who Am I?” problem in the context of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon during a lecture from “The Art of Living,” a first-year Introduction to Humanities course that examines the ways art can lead to a well-lived life. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu The Human Experience at Stanford: [...]

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