F47W On Consolation (Zoom)
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[NEW COURSE] How have writers and thinkers dealt with the pains of loss and death without the consolations of revealed religion? Ignatieff surveyed the lives and works of 17 writers and thinkers. We will read and discuss Ignatieff’s book and some of the works that he cites. Discussion, Lecture, Reading
Thomas Low
Tom Low is neither a professional philosopher nor an academic but has been a serious reader since his teens. He has led courses at Osher on figures as diverse as Plato, Montaigne, Thoreau, William James, Marcus Aurelius, and the great economists.