Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Drinks and Snacks will be provided.
This reading group will work through Boethius’ On the Consolation of Philosophy.
SCHEDULE:
This group will meet weekly on Thursdays (beginning January 23rd) from 6:00pm – 7:30pm over dinner.
A copy of On the Consolation of Philosophy will be provided to all participants. The reading may be picked up at Gavin House (1220 E 58th street) during business hours at the start of the fall quarter.
The University of Chicago is famous for its graduate student reading groups, in which students pursue their own intellectual interests among friends in an informal setting. The Lumen Christi Institute supports this endeavor by sponsoring a number of graduate student reading groups each quarter. LCI provides space, hospitality, and books.
Reading groups cover the whole spectrum of ideas. Texts do not need to be explicitly Catholic, though we follow St. Paul’s injunction to attend to whatever is true, noble, right, admirable, and lovely (Phil 4:8). Groups follow LCI’s guiding principles, which…
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Affirm the intellectual life as good in itself
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Ask questions animated by the principle that “all knowledge forms one whole”
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Transcend the ideological / political divide (i.e., programs should not be partisan in nature)
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Welcome religious perspectives as part of the intellectual life (i.e., programs need not be theological in nature but conversations should be open to religious insights)
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Nurture friendships, to support the pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness (i.e., programs should have a social component)