learning Circle on the Philosophy of Schopenhauer

We meet again, tomorrow, Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 11am.

We will gather at the If:Book cafe in Hornsey Library for 11am, buy coffee, (well I for one,  will anyway) and move to an adjacent room.

Late comers, who need directions, get them from Robin, who runs the cafe.

The group has been growing in numbers and at last weeks meeting, after a lively discussion we agreed that while we would continue to welcome new members, we would start to work more systematically.

So we set ourselves homework -of a kind - we agreed that we would all try to read the second chapter of Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction.

(Christopher Janaway Oxford Paperbacks Very Short Introductions

160 pages | Halftones throughout | 174x111mm

978-0-19-280259-0 | Paperback | 21 February 2002)

This chapter, while not long,  is a demanding read, and I cannot imagine that we will not spend several weeks at least working on the issues it raises. (some of us may end up thinking about them for rather longer than that)

In fact if you have not been able to read all of it. Or have been too daunted to really start, I would recommend concentrating on the first section "appearance and thing in itself"

One of the reasons we can continue to welcome new people, even if they have not had time to do the reading, is that part of the way in which a learning circle works is that we can all learn together by all teaching each other.

So if you have an interested friend, bring them along.

So see you there, and then, apparently.

David Barry