Last Drunken Philosophy of the Year! @ Big Time Brewery - U District

Sneak away from out of town visitors or bring them along to the last Drunken Philosophy of 2025

TOTALLY OPTIONAL TOPIC
Is there a moral threshold beyond which political violence becomes justified? What does that threshold look like for you?

EVEN MORE OPTIONAL READING OPTIONS
Letter from Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King Jr.
https://dub.sh/xKlna56
A moral defense of nonviolent resistance that sharply distinguishes just from unjust laws while warning that systemic injustice breeds unrest.

On Violence (excerpt)
by Hannah Arendt
https://dub.sh/E7mMZhL
A philosophical analysis separating power from violence, arguing that violence is an instrumental tool that often undermines political legitimacy.

Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
https://dub.sh/0KkpEO1
A classic argument for prioritizing individual conscience over state authority, advocating principled noncooperation with unjust systems without endorsing violence.

The Wretched of the Earth (1961), chapter “Concerning Violence” (excerpt)
by Frantz Fanon
https://dub.sh/pk8O6RJ
A provocative argument that, under conditions of colonial domination, revolutionary violence can be a psychologically and politically transformative response to systemic oppression.
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This is an every-other-Saturday-night get-together for people who want to have inappropriately serious conversations with strangers. All are welcome and no a priori knowledge of philosophy or anything else is required or expected. There are no fixed topics and no rules other than the categorical imperative to not be assholes to one another.

Come meet cranks, fanatics, weirdos and friendly people who actually know a lot about philosophy and other stuff. Melt a hole in the dreaded Seattle Freeze with the power of Big Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUbjpwyesk0).