Reading & Discussion Series: Jewish Environmental Wisdom
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesThis reading & discussion series facilitated by University of Montana philosophy graduate Kaleb Cohen & instructor for the Wild Rockies Field Institute, and Merlin Community philosopher Mitchell Conway, will explore various environmental and adjacent topics through a Jewish philosophical lens. Learn more & RSVP here!
How Did We Get Here?: Ghost in the Machine
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesUntil roughly the 16th century, nearly everyone in Western Europe — from common farmers and laborers, to highly educated scholars and clerics — took for granted that they lived in a cosmos teeming with a wide range of spiritual beings. Then, the story goes, everything changed, as the Scientific Revolution cast out all these intermediary spirits, leaving a cosmos that resembles a collection of inanimate machines, rather than an ecology teeming with living agents: a process which the pioneering sociologist Max Weber famously termed “the disenchantment of the world.” In this evening’s program, we’ll consider this process of disenchantment within its historical context and its consequences. Learn more & RSVP here!
Reading & Discussion Series: Jewish Environmental Wisdom
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesThis reading & discussion series facilitated by University of Montana philosophy graduate Kaleb Cohen & instructor for the Wild Rockies Field Institute, and Merlin Community philosopher Mitchell Conway, will explore various environmental and adjacent topics through a Jewish philosophical lens. Learn more & RSVP here!
Philosophy Think & Drink
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesStep into the dojo! Our Think & Drinks are monthly gatherings that consist of a “meeting of minds” over libations. An open mind & willing desire to engage in thoughtful dialogue (whether from a listening or contribution standpoint) is all that’s needed! Learn more here!
Giving Tuesday 2024
Please help us meet our goal of $3,500 this GivingTuesday! Contributions will go toward our Winter & Spring philosophy in the community programming. Learn more and donate here!
Philosophy Workshop: Aristotle on Friendship
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesIn this evening's discussion program, we'll explore some of the core concepts in Aristotle's account of friendship. We'll consider why one might pursue friendship, the role of ethical character, and what sorts of things help friendship flourish. We'll also ask whether friendship can arise only among equals, or whether it's possible for people of very different status to be friends as well (e.g., what it would take for genuine friendship to exist amidst such disparities of power, authority, or other human differences?). Learn more & RSVP here.
Philosophy Think & Drink – Cancelled
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesStep into the dojo! Our Think & Drinks are monthly gatherings that consist of a “meeting of minds” over libations. An open mind & willing desire to engage in thoughtful dialogue (whether from a listening or contribution standpoint) is all that’s needed! Learn more here!
Philosophy Think & Drink (with a Twist!)
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesThis month's Think & Drink will have a special twist to it. Namely -- we'll be celebrating a fellow philosopher and communing even more than usual! Think of it is a little gathering of the minds party. Learn more here!
Philosophy Workshop: What is Virtue? (More than just ethics!)
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesIn this evening's program, we'll reflect on "virtue" in general, and the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation within traditional philosophies of human life. And we'll examine how these virtues can extend well beyond the narrow domain of ethics, to encompass a much wider scope of our human aspirations and relationships. Learn more & RSVP here!
Philosophy Think & Drink
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesStep into the dojo! Our Think & Drinks are monthly gatherings that consist of a “meeting of minds” over libations. An open mind & willing desire to engage in thoughtful dialogue (whether from a listening or contribution standpoint) is all that’s needed! Learn more here!
Reading & Discussion Series: Plato’s Phaedrus
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesThe Phaedrus is arguably the most beautiful of Plato’s dialogues. This comes as no surprise, since the subject of the dialogue is Beauty in all its varieties, at every level of the cosmos. In this 3-series session led by community philosopher David Nowakowski, we'll explore beauty and some of the various other themes that come up in the process, including madness, immortality of the soul, memory & learning, and more! Learn more & RSVP here!
Reading & Discussion Series: Plato’s Phaedrus
Reeder's Alley Conference Center 101 Reeder's Alley, Helena, MT, United StatesThe Phaedrus is arguably the most beautiful of Plato’s dialogues. This comes as no surprise, since the subject of the dialogue is Beauty in all its varieties, at every level of the cosmos. In this 3-series session led by community philosopher David Nowakowski, we'll explore beauty and some of the various other themes that come up in the process, including madness, immortality of the soul, memory & learning, and more! Learn more & RSVP here!