What we’re about
- Welcome! Salt Lake Philosophy Club aims to spread the wonder & wisdom of philosophy to the whole SLC area by regular discussion of philosophical works and topics.
- Roughly every 3 weeks we will meet to freely discuss a philosophical (or philosophy-related) reading which will be chosen & posted beforehand.
- Although actually reading philosophy is a key goal here, we also have occasionally more open meetings for discussing a particular philosophical topic--even drawn from a hat!
- Overall our goal is to understand & appreciate the wonderful world of wild, conflicting thoughts that smart people across all times and places have come up with when facing the Big Questions. Questions like: Who are we? What is the good? What is truth? How ought we to live together? And why is meetup so expensive lately?
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Aurelius: The Meditations (1)Barnes & Noble Booksellers Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, UT
Few figures more perfectly embody the phrase "philosopher-king" than the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. During his long reign at the Empire's height, and even while busy with natural disasters and military campaigns in the north, the scholarly Aurelius managed privately to set down one of the enduring masterpieces of Stoic philosophy: his "Meditations".
In this small volume, made up of of twelve "books" discovered after his death, Aurelius, from the zenith of earthly power, turned to philosophy and self-questioning in search of the virtuous life--and as a source of ultimate perspective and self-mastery. "Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break", he counseled himself.
A pdf of the Hammond translation of Meditations is available on Archive here. Let's start with Books 1-4. Join us!
