DSPT Seminar Group

DSPT students, faculty, and alumni meet to tackle philosophy, literature, poetry and other various texts of 50 pages or less.

Tuesday, February 26: Aristotle - Ethics Books VIII & IX 

Aristotle - Ethics Glossary

Date TBD: Aristotle - Ethics Book X

Past Discussions:

Aristotle - Ethics Books V, VI, VII

Aristotle - Ethics Books III & IV

Aristotle - Ethics Books I & II

John Henry Newman - Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion 

Aristotle - On Dreams; On Sleep; On Divination in Dreams 

3 Essays by Montaigne

• “That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity”
• “On Friendship”
• “On Cannibals”

Faulkner's The Old People   

Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn 

Aristophanes' Clouds 

Plato's Crito 

Plato's Euthyphro 

Wallace Stephens' poem The Emperor of Ice Cream