the New Gelati Academy is a small new liberal arts college in Tbilisi that’s strongly influenced by St John’s College. It seems to be sort of a hybrid between a Great Books and business leadership college. It’s named for the Gelati Monastery, a medieval educational center near Kutaisi A visit from American Liberal Arts/Great Books [...]
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New Gelati Academy
Posted by Molly on October 24, 2011
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The Hermit
In tutorial we ended with four classes on Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. I’m not sure what to make of it. I’m not sure that anyone knew what to make of it. It seems like the sort of thing that offers a lot of fascinating and suggestive insights into the less talked about side [...]
Posted by Molly on August 4, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/the-hermit/
Last Essay for School
Assuming that I don’t have to re-write it or something awful like that the Shakespeare essay I just posted is the last thing I have to write for school… ever so far as I know. Hooray! And… blarg… I wish I had enough brain power to do a better job of it!
Posted by Molly on July 30, 2010
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Shakespeare Preceptorial Essay: Counterfeit Chances?
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great pelly doublet. He was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks. Fluellen in Henry V 4.7:45 As king, Henry V [...]
Posted by Molly on July 30, 2010
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Dynamical Antinomies in Kant’s Prolegomena
Let the title be a warning: it really does read like that. * * * In Part Three, §51 of the Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics Kant presents four transcendent ideas, corresponding to his four categories from the tables of §21. These seem to be the great insoluble problems of metaphysics, and Kant is attempting [...]
Posted by Molly on July 26, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/dynamical-antinomies-in-kants-prolegomena/
Graduation Announcement
_________________________________________________________________________ I, Molly Irene Jean Dodd am pleased to announce my graduation from Saint John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico With a Masters of Art in Liberal Arts on Friday, the sixth of August Two thousand ten at ten o’clock in the morning.
Posted by Molly on July 25, 2010
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The Writing Process
NOTE: The following is personal, and therefore perhaps not so interesting as it might be if it were a properly thought out post. It’s that point of the semester where writing anything on topic feels like squeezing grey matter out of my head so that it can congeal sloppily on artificial paper. I ought to [...]
Posted by Molly on July 21, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-writing-process/
Essay notes: Hume’s Treatise on Human Nature
I had thought to write on Kant, but I haven’t the time and Kant is in large part trying to salvage something of that which Hume had previously destroyed. So then I thought to write on causality, but first I had to finish our Hume readings for class. He has a very curious conclusion: he’s [...]
Posted by Molly on July 17, 2010
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Nothing But
We’ve been studying Scottish philosopher David Hume for Tutorial these past few classes, and will continue on Monday. I don’t much care for him. He makes me rather sad, actually. As far as I can tell he’s a “don’t know, can’t know, nothing but” kind of philosopher — we don’t know anything except through impressions [...]
Posted by Molly on July 16, 2010
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Lecture Review: Reading Plato’s Republic
I’ve been reviewing the weekly St John’s graduate institute lecture, held Wednesday afternoons for the summer semester; so far we’ve heard Mr. Cohen on Miracles and Belief and Mr Bybee on comparative philosophy in How Well did Hume Read the Buddha? Today’s lecture was Reading Plato’s Republic, given by St John’s tutor Robert Richardson. It [...]
Posted by Molly on July 14, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/lecture-review-reading-platos-republic/
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