Marginal Conversations is hosting two reading groups in the Spring in the upstairs of the Hope and Union Coffee Shop at 199 St. Philip Street in downtown Charleston, on the block between Cannon and Spring Streets. Thank you to John, Harper, and the Hope and Union baristas for letting us use your space. Discussion groups are [...]
Margin Notes: Alfred North Whitehead from Heather Griffin
“When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.”
Margin Notes: Martin S. Jaffee from Amberjade Mwekali
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Viral Reading creates contagious conversation at your favorite hang out. What if many of the regulars at your local coffee shop read the same book this Fall? They would have a whole group of people to continue a conversation with, even if they never designated a meeting time.
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Spring 2011 Reading GroupsMarginal Conversations is hosting two reading groups in the Spring in the upstairs of the Hope and Union Coffee Shop at 199 St. Philip Street in downtown Charleston, on the block between Cannon and Spring Streets. Thank you to John, Harper, and the Hope and Union baristas for letting us use your space. Discussion groups are [...] |
Margin Notes: Alfred North Whitehead from Heather Griffin“When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.” |
Margin Notes: Martin S. Jaffee from Amberjade MwekaliMargin Notes: Have you found something quotable in your reading? Share your quotes and margin notes with the Marginal Conversations Community. |
Authenticity“To thine own self be true.” From Polonius’s words in “Hamlet “right up to Oprah, we are constantly urged to look within. Why is being authentic the ultimate aim in life for so many people, and why does it mean looking inside rather than out? Is it about finding the “real” me, or something greater than me… |
