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
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One Dimensional Man (3)
Barnes & Noble Booksellers Sugarhouse, 1104 East 2100 South, Salt Lake City, UT, USHerbert Marcuse is one of the most well-known 1960s "critical theorists" and a member of the very influential Frankfurt School of philosophers. Heavily influenced by Marx and Freud, his "One Dimensional Man" (1964) was one of his most successful works and is credited as a core text driving the '60s "counterculture" in the West.
Surprisingly like de Tocqueville, Marcuse suggests the liberal system, instead of abolishing repression, just creates its own more subtle forms of it, largely by promoting "false needs". He also criticizes the observed development of communist states as anything but liberating, and ponders the role of technology in supporting repression in both types of government.
Time to critique his critique! This time, let's get through Ch. 4, "The Closing of the Universe of Discourse".
A pdf of the text is available here. Try to use this edition so we are all the same page (literally). See you soon...1 attendee
Past events
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