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Past Reading Groups and Seminars
Wed, Nov 05Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of courage.
Wed, Oct 29Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of piety and the relation between morality and the divine.
Wed, Oct 01Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of our obligations to the state.
Wed, Apr 23Stanford students are invited to join Zephyr for this evening dinner seminar with Prof. Lanier Anderson (Stanford, Philosophy) about Montaigne's classic short essay, "Of Practice."
Thu, Jan 16A Zephyr Seminar with Landon Hobbs (Zephyr) on Aristotle's theory of justice.
Tue, Oct 08A Zephyr seminar with Juan Miguel Matheus (Stanford Constitutional Law Center and National Assembly of Venezuela)
Multiple DatesThu, May 30Join Zephyr for a five-part reading and discussion of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus", led by Ben Gee (PhD Candidate, Department of English).
Multiple DatesWed, May 22Join Zephyr for this exploration of philosophical questions about the nature, purpose, and value of art. We will be reading R. G. Collingwood's "Principles of Art" (1938).
Fri, May 17All Stanford students are invited to join Zephyr for this afternoon tea and discussion of Plato's dialogue about piety with Rupert Sparling (PhD Candidate, Philosophy).
Fri, Mar 08All Stanford students are invited to join Zephyr for this afternoon tea and discussion of Plato's charming dialogue about friendship.
Wed, Feb 07All Stanford undergraduates are invited to join Zephyr to discuss C. S. Lewis's provocative historical analysis of the modern origins of our ideas of romantic love.
Sat, Feb 03Join Zephyr the evening of Saturday, February 3rd for an evening of philosophical discussion. We will be reading Aquinas's discussion of the order of charity in Summa Theologiae II-II Q. 26.
Multiple DatesTue, Jan 30The Zephyr Poetry Society is a venue for the collective reading, discussion, and appreciation of the great poems of the English poetic tradition.
Wed, Jan 17All undergraduates are invited to join Zephyr for a discussion of the foundations of Aristotle's political philosophy.
Wed, Jan 10Join Zephyr for the first meeting of the quarter for our undergraduate discussion group.
Multiple DatesTue, Dec 05A virtual reading and discussion group for physicians and physicians-in-training, led by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty- Multiple DatesFri, Dec 01The Zephyr Poetry Society is a venue for the collective reading, discussion, and appreciation of the great poems of the English poetic tradition.
Multiple DatesWed, Nov 29What makes for a good human life? What confers value on our lives? What seems to confer a value which is in fact delusive? And what is the relative place and rank each of the many apparent goods holds in a complete and flourishing human life?
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