TUES MAY 20 / AGORA CLUB with Katie Kelley

7p to 8:30p ◣ 

Agora, from the Greek – an Assembly of the People, used not only for debating, trials, and other public purposes, but also as a marketplace – a shop? A place where people gather to talk about ideas together.

A philosophy reading group, gathered for the sake of puzzling through the specific peculiarities, insights, and pleasures of the text, and for the sake of talking together about what the world is and who we are.

Monthly, or so. Essays, short texts, ideally readable in a long quiet afternoon. Texts drawn from no particular tradition or time period.

Facilitated by KATIE KELLEY (PhD, Philosophy, NSSR), lapsed academic and longtime friend, sometimes employee of the the shop. 

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Our first text (procure HERE) is a challenge to a foundational idea about the worth of philosophy – Socrates’ claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. In The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life, Nietzsche suggests that maybe we have it backwards, and that true happiness lies in our power to forget rather than our capacity to know and understand.

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We can't wait to see you! Email information@archestrat.us with questions.