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Philosophy in the Community Archives

We do our best to capture our philosophy in the community activities in a way that will readily enable people to access, view, listen to, and participate in our “thinky wanderings,” regardless of where they reside. To access resources from our past events, click on the various categories below. Please note: Archive resources from 2015 – December 2024 activities can be accessed on our old website here.

Philosophy Walks

July 2024 – Current

Think & Drinks

Coming Soon…

Philosophy Shorts

Jan 2025 – Current

Workshops & Series

Jan 2025 – Current

Philosophy Symposiums

June 2025 to Current

Philosophy Outings

Coming Soon…

Fellowships

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Fundraisers

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Special Programs

September 2024 – Current

Merlin Library

Musings from Merlin Nature Preserve: Between Wildness & Discipline

Philosphy abounds. Every moment and place invites a musing. Merlin Nature Preserve is home to many. Read some reflections here.

Between Wildness and Discipline

Philosophical musings from the preserve

Articles, Podcasts, Videos & More

Interested in reading & listening to some of our posts about various topics we’ve covered over the years? For now (at least until we migrate all of our posts over to this website), you can click on the image below to access them.

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Stuff we’ve explored

General Philosophy Resources

Below are some links to philosophy resources that you might find helpful & interesting. Click on the ‘+’ sign next to each category to view and access.

Some Quotes to Ponder

  • Philosophy is not about authoritative pronouncements.  It is not about one person claiming to be deeper than others or making allegedly wise assertions.  It is about leading the examined life, with humility about how little we really understand, with a commitment to arguments that are rigorous, reciprocal, and sincere, and with a willingness to listen to others as equal participants and to respond to what they offer. 
    – Martha Nussbaum
  • There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication…Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another…and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. 
    – John Dewey
  • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of light.
    – Plato
  • Education is not the [mere] learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
    – Albert Einstein
  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    – Aristotle
  • How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
    – A.A. Milne
  • The vitality of thought is an adventure.  Ideas won’t keep.  Something must be done about them. 
    – Alfred North Whitehead
  • Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
    – Rumi
  • Nothing is so strong as gentleness…and nothing so gentle as real strength.
    – Ralph W. Sockman
  • Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
    – Immanuel Kant
  • People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
    – Søren Kierkegaard
  • To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy…can do for those who study it.
    – Bertrand Russell
  • If you want others to be happy…practice compassion.  If you want to be happy…practice compassion. 
    – Dalai Lama
  • Every day is a little life: Every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
    – Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.   The most massive characters are seared with scars. 
    – Khalil Gibran
  • There is a sacredness in tears.  They are not a mark of weakness, but of power…They are the messengers of overwhelming grief…and of unspeakable love.
    – Washington Irving