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SUMMARY:Reeder's Alley Summer Series (RASS)
DESCRIPTION:Kick-Back & Enjoy Community!\nNestled in the grounds of historic Reeder’s Alley\, this fun\, grassroots-inspired Summer series hosted by community philosophy non-profit Merlin CCC features live local music\, a beer garden\, food trucks\, historic Pioneer Cabin & alley walking tours\, living history demonstrations\, lawn games\, and more. \nDog-friendly and laid-back\, this community-oriented event invites you to take in the charm of the alley & history of Helena in only the way that Reeder’s Alley can offer! Bring a picnic blanket or your favorite low-riding lawn chair & grab a spot in Caretaker’s Lawn.  Roam the alley\, share stories\, play games\, eat food\, sip brews or wine\, and take in the tunes. What better way to celebrate Tuesday nights in Helena this Summer?! \nCheck out the Schedule Here!\n \n 
URL:https://merlinccc.org/calendar-event/reeders-alley-summer-series/2024-08-20/
LOCATION:Reeder’s Alley\, 200 S. Park Avenue\, Helena\, MT\, 59601\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reeder's Alley Summer Series (RASS)
DESCRIPTION:Kick-Back & Enjoy Community!\nJoin us for the 2nd Season of our Reeder’s Alley Summer Series!  Nestled in the grounds of historic Reeder’s Alley\, this fun\, grassroots-inspired Summer series hosted by community philosophy non-profit Merlin CCC features live local music\, tasty eats\, a beer & wine garden\, historic Pioneer Cabin tours\, living history\, games & more. \nDog-friendly and laid-back\, this community-oriented event invites you to take in the charm of the alley & history of Helena in only the way that Reeder’s Alley can offer! Bring a picnic blanket or your favorite low-riding lawn chair & grab a spot in Caretaker’s Lawn.  Roam the alley\, share stories\, play games\, eat food\, sip brews or wine\, and take in the tunes. What better way to celebrate Tuesday nights in Helena this coming Summer?! \nCheck out the 2025 Music & Activities Schedule Here!\n \n 
URL:https://merlinccc.org/calendar-event/reeders-alley-summer-series-rass/2024-08-20/
LOCATION:Reeder’s Alley\, 200 S. Park Avenue\, Helena\, MT\, 59601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reeder's Alley Summer Series (RASS)
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marisa Diaz-Waian":MAILTO:marisa@merlinccc.org
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Walk: Conversations with the World
DESCRIPTION:What We’ll Explore\nQuite often\, discussions of ethics circle around lists of rules to follow.  What happens if we take a different approach altogether\, and think of our ethical lives as a series of conversations with the world\, with the communities we inhabit\, and with our neighbors?  In this evening’s walk and discussion\, we’ll reflect on what it would mean to focus our ethical lives around dialogue\, relationship\, and conversation.  \nWe’ll begin with a suggestion from Aristotle\, who notes a close link between ethics and habits.  Here\, we can examine ethics as a conversation between ourselves and the families and communities in which we’re brought up\, where our characters are formed — as well as ongoing adult conversations with those same societies\, or with other communities that we choose for ourselves. \nThen\, drawing from Plato’s Phaedrus and Matthew Crawford’s work on communities practice\, we’ll move on to consider the deeply transformative place of love\, and its associated vulnerability\, in our moral lives.  Here\, we’ll reflect on the difference between ethical judgments based in abstractions\, and those that spring from relationships with individuals and communities. \nFinally\, we’ll reflect on what it would mean to expand the frame of our ethical conversations in various directions.  How might we include what ecologically-informed thinkers in recent decades have called the “more than human world” of other animals\, plants\, and ecosystems?  Or conversations across the years and the generations\, with our ancestors (something like Chesterton’s “democracy of the dead”) and our descendants? \nThroughout our own conversation\, we’ll examine specific strategies for\, and implications of\, organizing our ethical lives as conversations.  And we’ll reflect on some of the ways that approaching ethics as a series of conversations with the world might help us to celebrate and embrace the diversity of individual human lives\, of communities and cultures\, and of the more-than-human world. \n  \nWhen\nThursday\, August 22nd from 6pm-8:30pm \nWhere\nSpring Meadow Lake (Our group will meet in the main/North side of the lot at the far end of the entrance) \nRSVP\nClick here to let us know you’re coming! \nCost\nFREE (Donations appreciated) \nOther\nWear weather appropriate attire & comfortable shoes \n\n  \nWalk Leader\nDavid Nowakowski is a philosopher and educator in the Helena area whose professional work is dedicated to helping people of all ages and backgrounds access\, understand\, and apply the traditions of ancient philosophy to their own lives.  David began studying ancient philosophies and classical languages in 2001 and has continued ever since.  A scholar of the philosophical traditions of the ancient Mediterranean (Greece\, Rome\, and North Africa) and of the Indian subcontinent\, reading Sanskrit\, Latin\, and classical Greek\, he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 2014.  His work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals\, including Philosophy East & West\, Asian Philosophy\, and the Journal of Indian Philosophy\, as well as in presentations to academic audiences at Harvard\, Columbia University\, the University of Toronto\, Yale-NUS College in Singapore\, and elsewhere. \nAfter half a decade teaching at liberal arts colleges in the northeast\, David chose to leave the academy in order to focus his energies on the transformative value of these ancient philosophical and spiritual traditions in his own life and practice\, and on building new systems of education and community learning that will make this rich heritage alive and available to others. \nA hermit by nature and by committed choice\, he balances contemplative solitude with his active work in teaching\, counseling\, and the healing arts.  David can be reached at david@merlinccc.org or via his personal website. \n\n  \nMake a Donation Here\nOur philosophy activities are FREE to the community.  While donations are never expected\, they are always appreciated and help to keep programs like these going. Donations help to cover activity leader honorariums\, implementation\, and resource archiving\, and more!  If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution you can do so by clicking here.  For those facing more challenging financial circumstances\, we ask that you please try to “pay it forward” with acts of kindness for your neighbors and community.  \n 
URL:https://merlinccc.org/calendar-event/ethics-as-conversations/
LOCATION:Spring Meadow Lake\, 2715 Country Club Drive\, Helena\, 59601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philosophy Walks
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