The Limits of Freedom
Wednesday, March 31st
ib3.307 from 4-5.30pm
The Deakin Philosophical Society this week will discuss a brief article by Alain de Botton, ‘The Limits of Freedom’. The article is one in a series published in the UK Guardian on the topic of citizen ethics. Wednesday’s meeting will complete our discussion of civil liberties and conceptions of liberty.
I would like to thank Kristian Schutz for introducing the articles last week and for ensuring that a lively discussion ensued.
There will be no meeting on Wednesday, April 7 due to the intra-trimester or Easter break. When we reconvene on April 14 we’ll discuss a piece by Dr Tamas Pataki, who will be speaking on the topic of religion and violence at Deakin’s Waurn Ponds campus on Thursday, April 15.
Philosophy Café
Wednesday, March 31st
The Barking Dog Hotel, 126 Pakington st Geelong West from 7-9.30pm
Wednesday, March 31 is also Philosophy Café night.
Dr Hans Baer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry, presents ‘Production and Consumption as Sources of Global Warming’.
See you Wednesday,
Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White [1914]
(ll. 104-115) Hail, children of Zeus! Grant lovely song and celebrate the holy race of the deathless gods who are forever, those that were born of Earth and starry Heaven and gloomy Night and them that briny Sea did rear. Tell how at the first gods and earth came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with its raging swell, and the gleaming stars, and the wide heaven above, and the gods who were born of them, givers of good things, and how they divided their wealth, and how they shared their honours amongst them, and also how at the first they took many-folded Olympus. These things declare to me from the beginning, ye Muses who dwell in the house of Olympus, and tell me which of them first came to be.
