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SUMMARY:On Work and Rest Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Recent studies indicate that anxiety “runs rampant” on college campuses\, with upwards of 61% of college students reporting anxiety as a “major health concern” and with almost 50% of students screening positive for clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety in 2020. While there are many possible causes for this\, one contributing factor is conspicuous busyness\, the sense that one should always be working\, always getting ahead\, in both school and life. \nThis seminar considers classical and contemporary texts on the point and purpose of work and leisure. Aristotle famously argued that “we work to have leisure\, on which happiness depends\,” but many have the attitude that we rest-up so that we can get back to work. \nBut Aristotle also (somewhat infamously) didn’t quite understand the point of work itself\, perhaps assuming that work\, or some kinds of work\, were degrading. He might not be the best guide. A life of total work can’t be the good life\, but surely work is part of a good life? How ought we understand the value and role of work\, and the place and purpose of leisure? \nWe can’t really understand leisure and work independently. In this seminar we’ll consider the purpose of each within a complete life\, within a life lived well.
URL:https://winst.org/event/on-work-and-rest-seminar/
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SUMMARY:The Pedagogy Project Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The seminar is dedicated to developing a community in Princeton of graduate students\, young teachers\, and those interested in education who can provide support\, advice\, and friendship to one another. \nMy own experience of eight years of classroom teaching\, coaching other teachers\, working as a dean of curriculum and instruction\, and graduate studies has taught me that many educational institutions — high schools\, middle schools\, elementary schools\, universities — do a lot of good\, but often suffer from impoverished understandings of the human person and of the purposes of education. I would like for us to come together to uncover our own implicit and explicit philosophies of education\, and to better understand the philosophies of education that have formed and continue to form us. \nThis fall\, we will read and discuss The Love of Learning by Dr. Margarita Mooney Suarez of Princeton Theological Seminary\, and we will accompany these discussions with practical applications on how to become better teachers.
URL:https://winst.org/event/the-pedagogy-project-seminar/
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SUMMARY:The Central Problems of Metaphysics
DESCRIPTION:If you know just enough Aristotle or Aquinas to know you would benefit from a more careful study of the basic principles of Aristotelian or Thomistic metaphysics\, please join us for this seminar. Many of Witherspoon seminars tackle big life questions—this seminar\, however\, will be a close and detailed study of a classic Thomistic manual by Henri Grenier. At one point\, his textbook\, Cursus Philosophiae\, was widely used\, and while manuals such as his fell out of favor\, they still merit study. No previous background in philosophy is required\, and the text is (mostly) user-friendly\, and helpful if you’d like to understand the basics of metaphysics\, the discipline all others depend upon. The topics: being\, truth\, cause\, and God.
URL:https://winst.org/event/the-central-problems-of-metaphysics/
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SUMMARY:Jane Austen’s Emma – Formation\, Malformation\, and Education through Friendship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Jane Austen noted that the titular character in her novel Emma is “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. Emma is certainly no Elizabeth Bennet\, whose sparkling wit and keen intelligence have made her decidedly the most popular Austen character—but judging by the multiple film adaptations of Austen’s later and more complex novel (including the recent 2020 visually decadent version with Anya Taylor-Joy)\, there is something about Emma which nevertheless invites us to befriend her\, in spite of (or perhaps because of?) her errors and mistakes. \nPerhaps her sincere though egotistical attempts to form and influence those around her strikes rather close to home. We\, too\, think that Pygmalion attempts at shaping others will help them to be better off. Emma is a novel about education: how our relationships educate us for better or for worse\, how societal roles both restrict and liberate attempts at self-improvement\, and how men and women can learn from one another. \nWe will play close attention not only to the content of the novel\, but the carefully crafted manner in which it is told. The genius of Emma lies in its narration—in how Austen educates us and reveals our own misadventures in judgment.
URL:https://winst.org/event/jane-austens-emma-formation-malformation-and-education-through-friendship-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Coffee and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for casual coffee and conversation on Wednesday mornings\, 9:00am – 10:30am. Princeton and PTS students are warmly invited!
URL:https://winst.org/event/coffee-and-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Romance\, Dating\, and Marriage Seminar
DESCRIPTION:There are many songs about love but not a whole lot of guidance or practical wisdom to be found\, or at least it can seem that way. Perhaps you want something meaningful in your relationships but the cultural scripts aren’t especially clear\, your friends seem just as confused as you\, and few people seem to know how to date\, or what the point of dating is anyway. \nIn this seminar\, we’ll think about romantic love and its proper place during your time in college\, with some time spent considering marriage in a happy life and the good of sex. Classic and contemporary texts will be studied\, and we’ll have some practical guidance from people who’ve experienced singleness\, dating\, and marriage. Don’t pretend you’re not interested in learning more!
URL:https://winst.org/event/romance-dating-and-marriage-seminar/
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