2010-2011 Meeting Schedule

Hello, meetings of the Monday Night Philosophy Club will be starting up again this fall. Our schedule this year is the same as last year. The last Monday of every month.

So:

October 25, 2010

November 29, 2010

December 20, 2010 (The Library is Closed on the 27th)

January 31, 2011

February 28, 2011

March 28, 2011

April 25, 2011

&

May 30, 2011

Philosophical Topics in the News

Please feel free to discuss:

Choice, and Punishment via a Utah mans decision to face the firing squad.

Law creates a question of freedom of expression in France.

Our next meeting will be on May 24, 2010 at 6:30pm at Coyle Free Library.

April Meeting

Hello everyone. The Monday Night Philosophy Club met last night with a total of 6 in attendance. We discussed the topic “how we know what we know.”

Our next meeting is April 26, 2010 from 6:30-7:30 at Coyle Free Library.

How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Current Suggested Topics for our March 29th Meeting

Here are our current suggested topics for the March meeting. Feel Free to add your own:

1. I like the idea of discussing something that has practical value, such as moral philosophy or ethics. For example, the fact that our nation is at war should suggest to us the importance of this particular issue (e.g., is war ever justified? Why or why not?). Political philosophy is also very much in the news these days–both political parties in Washington have very different political philosophies yet both seem impotent.
2. How do we know what we know and the best books on the subject.
3. What do you think about S. Kierkegaard’s statement: “Truth is subjectivity”?

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.  ~Henri Louis Bergson

Monday, March 29. 6:30-7:30

Coyle Free Library
Share your thoughts…

March Meeting

Thank you to everyone who attended our first meeting.  We had four people in attendance, and hopefully more at our next meeting. Our next meeting will be on March 29th 2010 at 6 pm in the Afternoon Club Room of Coyle Free Library.  Please feel free to suggest topics for our next meeting by replying to this post.  We hope to allow people to have a forum to share ideas with the community in a constructive manner.  Even if you can’t attend the next meeting feel free to post a topic.

Have a beautiful day.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?  ~Stanislaw J. Lec

February Meeting Topics

Well our plan to vote for a topic might not work as no one has supplied a discussion topic.  No worries. Please, if you view this blog before February 22, 2010 suggest a topic. We will review all suggested topics at our meeting and choose one at the meeting. If no one uses this blog to suggest a topic we might discuss all topics at our meetings.

Alice came to a fork in the road.

“Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Suggest a Topic for our February 2010 Meeting.

Please suggest a discussion topic/question for our Monday, February 22, 2010 meeting by commenting on this post.  Appropriate questions are almost anything (rated E for everyone,  I don’t want to censor if I don’t  have to).

Example Questions would be:

Who am I?

Why is there something rather than nothing? – Heidegger

How should I live? What life or ideal should I live or die for? – Kierkegaard

If you like one of the sample questions please feel free to post them as a suggestion.

We will start a poll on February 1st.Voting will Begin on February 1st and end February 15th. I will then put another post up so we can begin to discuss our agreed upon topic. More information later.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions at 717.263.1054 or jyaich@fclspa.org

Jill Yaich

Intro Post

Hello, Franklin County!

Libraries are all about information. That information is brought to us in many forms: books, music, art, sight, sound, and taste. Ideas form and are collected many different ways. What about all of those thoughts, and images running around in our heads?  Maybe we aren’t the next Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, Mozart, Plato, but we need a forum to openly discuss questions that we think about every day.

Franklin County Library System would like to start an open forum to discuss any questions that are really important to Franklin County Residents. Questions like, “What does it mean to be a Franklin County resident?” “What does punishment mean to you?” “Explain the importance of public vs. private endeavors.”

This will be a bit different than a traditional philosophy club because we would like to create a way for everyone to state their ideas in ways that come naturally to them. If the monthly topic inspires you to create a piece of art, or a poem, or reminds you of an article you read recently we encourage you to share these things with the group via our blog:

https://mondaynightphilosophyclub.wordpress.com

Or bring your contribution the next meeting.

The Monday Night Philosophy Club will hold its first meeting on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6 pm at Coyle Free Library in Chambersburg, PA. We will vote on a topic of discussion via our blog:

https://mondaynightphilosophyclub.wordpress.com

Post suggested discussion topics on the appropriate post until January 31, 2010. On February 1 we will begin to vote on the topic we will discuss at the February 22^st meeting.

And/or send suggestions to

Jill Yaich / Coyle Free Library / 102 N. Main St. Chambersburg, PA 17201 . 1.263.1054 / jyaich@fclspa.org

As our club establishes itself we would like to have meetings at other public forums such as coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, other Franklin County Library Branches.

Please remember that this is an open public forum. Please be respectful of other posters. We will do our best to keep this forum as uncensored as possible, however remember Franklin County Library System reserves the right to take down any post that displays blatantly hurtful words to other posters.