Principle, and its Relation to the Universe. 3. Fate and Freedom. 4. The conscious and unconscious First Principle in relation to human life. 5. The Personality of God. 6. The Immortality of the Soul. 7. Physiological Psychology. 8. The Method of study in Speculative Philosophy. 9. Art, Religion, and Philosophy in relation to each other and to man. 10. The Dialectic. Mrs. EDNAH D. CHENEY.-1. The general subject of Art. 2. Greek Art. 3. Early Italian Art. 4. Italian Art. 5. Michael Angelo. 6. Spanish Art. 7. German Art. 8. Albert Dürer. 9. French Art. 10. Contemporaneous Art. Dr. H. K. JONES.-1. General content of the Platonic Philosophy. 2. The Apology of Socrates. 3. The Platonic idea of Church and State. 4. The Immortality of the Soul. 5. Reminiscence as related to the Pre-existence of the Soul. 6. Pre-existence. 7. The Human Body. 8. The Republic. 9. The Material Body. 10. Education. Mr. DAVID A. WASSON.-1. Social Genesis and Texture. 2. The Nation. 3. Individualism as a Political Principle. 4. Public Obligation. 5. Sovereignty. 6. Absolutism crowned and uncrowned. 7. Representation. 8. Rights. 9. The Making of Freedom. 10. The Political Spirit of '76. Mr. T. W. HIGGINSON.-1. The Birth of American Literature. 2. Literature in a Republic. Mr. THOMAS DAVIDSON. - 1. The History of Athens as revealed in its topography and monuments. 2. The Same, continued. Mr. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Memory. Mr. F. B. SANBORN. — 1. Social Science. 2. Philanthropy and Public Charities. Rev. Dr. CYRUS A. BARTOL. - Education. Mr. HARRISON G. O. BLAKE. Selections from Thoreau's Manuscripts. SECOND YEAR'S PROGRAMME. Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT. 1880. Five Lectures on Mysticism: 1. St. John the Evangelist. 2. Plotinus. 3. Tauler and Eckhart. 4. Behmen. 5. Swedenborg. Mr. Alcott also delivered the Salutatory and Valedictory. Dr. H. K. JONES. - Five Lectures on The Platonic Philosophy, and five on Platonism in its Relation to Modern Civilization: 1. Platonic Philosophy; Cosmologic and Theologic Outlines. 2. The Platonic Psychology; The Dæmon of Socrates. 3. The Two Worlds, and the Twofold Consciousness; The Sensible and the Intelligible. 4. The State and Church; Their Relations and Correlations. 5. The Eternity of the Soul, and its Pre-existence. 6. The Immortality and the Mortality of the Soul; Personality and Individuality; Metempsychosis. 7. The Psychic Body and the Material Body of Man. 8. Education and Discipline of Man; The Uses of the World we live in. 9. The Philosophy of Law. 10. The Philosophy of Prayer, and the "Prayer Gauge." Dr. WILLIAM T. HARRIS. Five Lectures on Speculative Philosophy, namely: 1. Philosophic Knowing. 2. Philosophic First Principles. 3. Philosophy and Immortality. 4. Philosophy and Religion. 5. Philosophy and Art. — Five Lectures on the History of Philosophy, namely: 1. Plato. 2. Aristotle. 3. Kant. 4. Fichte. 5. Hegel. Rev. JOHN S. KEDNEY, D.D. - Four Lectures on the Philoso -- phy of the Beautiful and Sublime. Mr. DENTON J. SNIDER. Five Lectures on Shakspeare: 1. Philosophy of Shakspearian Criticism. 2. The Shakspearian World. 3. Principles of Characterization in Shakspeare. 4. Organism of the Individual Drama. 5. Organism of the Universal Drama. Rev. WILLIAM H. CHANNING. Four Lectures on Oriental and Mystical Philosophy: 1. Historical Mysticism. 2. Man's Fourfold Being. 3. True Buddhism. 4. Modern Pessimism. Mrs. EDNAH D. CHENEY.-1. Color. 2. Early American Art. Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE. Modern Society. Mr. JOHN ALBEE.-1. Figurative Language. 2. The Literary Art. Mr. F. B. SANBORN. - The Philosophy of Charity. Dr. ELISHA MULFORD. — 1. The Personality of God. 2. Precedent Relations of Religion and Philosophy to Christianity. Mr. HARRISON G. O. BLAKE. Readings from Thoreau's Manuscripts. Rev. Dr. CYRUS A. BARTOL. God in Nature. Rev. Dr. ANDREW P. PEABODY. ness. Mr. EMERSON.- Aristocracy. Conscience and Conscious Rev. Dr. FREDERIC H. HEDGE. Ghosts and Ghost-seeing. Mr. DAVID A. WASSON. 1. Philosophy of History. 2. The Same. - (In place of an expected lecture of Professor PEIRCE, who was too ill to be present, there was a conversation on Hawthorne.) THIRD YEAR'S PROGRAMME. 1881. Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT. - Salutatory, Valedictory, and Five Lectures on the Philosophy of Life. Dr. WILLIAM T. HARRIS. - First Course: Philosophical Distinctions. 1. Philosophy Distinguished from Opinion or Fragmentary Observation; The Miraculous vs. The Mechanical Explanation of Things. 2. Nominalism of Locke and Hume; Pantheistic Realism of Hobbes, Spinoza, Comte, and Spencer vs. the Realism of Christianity. 3. The Influence of Nature upon the Human Mind; the Emancipation of the Soul from the Body. 4. SenseImpressions and Recollections vs. Memory and Reflection; Animal Cries and Gestures vs. Human Language. 5. The Metaphysical Categories used by Natural Science, Thing, Fact, Atom, Force, Law, Final Cause or Design, Dr. HARRIS.-Second Course: Hegel's Philosophy. 1. Hegel's Doctrine of Psychology and Logic; his Dialectic Method and System. 2. Hegel's Doctrine of God and the World, - Creator and Created. 3. Relations of Kant and Hegel. 4. Hegel's Distinction of Man from Nature; Two Kinds of Immortality, that of the Species and that of the Individual. 5. Hegel's Doctrine of Providence in History; Asia vs. Europe as furnishing the contrast of Pantheism and Christianity. 6. Hegel's Theory of Fine Arts and Literature as reflecting the development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness. Dr. HIRAM K. JONES.- First Course: The Platonic Philosophy. 1. The Platonic Cosmology, Cosmogony, Physics, and Metaphysics. 2. Myth; The Gods of the Greek Mythology; The Ideas and Principles of their Worship, Divine Providence, Free Will, and Fate. 3. Platonic Psychology. The Idea of Conscience; The Dæmon of Socrates. 4. The Eternity of the Soul, and its Preexistence. 5. The Immortality of the Soul, and the Mortality of the Soul: Personality and Individuality; Metempsychosis. Dr. JONES.-Second Course: Platonism in its Relation to Modern Civilization. 1. The Social Genesis; The Church and the State. 2. The Education and Discipline of Man; The Uses of the World we live in. 3. The Psychic Body and the Material Body of Man; The Christian Resurrection. 4. The Philosophy of Law. 5. The Philosophy of Prayer, and the "Prayer Gauge." Mr. DENTON J. SNIDER.- Five Lectures on Greek Life and Literature. Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE. -1. Philosophy in Europe and America. 2. The Results of Kant. Mrs. EDNAH D. CHENEY. - The Relation of Poetry to Science. Rev. J. S. KEDNEY, D.D. - Three Lectures on the Philosophic Groundwork of Ethics. Mrs. AMALIA J. HATHAWAY.-Schopenhauer. President JOHN BASCOM. Freedom of the Will. Mr. EDWIN D. MEAD. - Philosophy of Fichte. - Mr. F. B. SANBORN. - 1. Roman Literature. 2. English and German Literature. 3. American Literature and Life. Mr. JOHN ALBEE. - Faded Metaphors. Rev. Dr. C. A. BARTOL. - The Transcendent Faculty in Man. Dr. ELISHA MULFORD. - The Philosophy of the State. Dr. ROWLAND G. HAZARD. - Philosophical Character of Chan ning. President NOAH PORTER. Professor JOHN W. MEARS. A Lecture on Kant. - A Lecture on Kant. Professor JOHN WATSON. -The Critical Philosophy in its relation to Realism and Sensationalism. Mr. H. G. O. BLAKE. - Readings from Thoreau's Manuscripts. FOURTH YEAR'S PROGRAMME. 1882. Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT.-Four Lectures on The Personal, Generic and Individual Mind. 1. Personality, Divine and Human. 2. The Descending Scale of Powers. 3. Individualism. 4. Immortality, Individual or Personal? Dr. HARRIS. Five Lectures on the History of Philosophy, three on Fichte's Philosophy, and two on Art. 1. Socrates and the Pre-Socratic Philosophy. 2. Aristotle's De Anima (his distinctions between Nutrition, Feeling, and Thinking). 3. Gnosticism and Neoplatonism. 4. Christian Mysticism Bonaventura and Meister Eckhart. 5. The Philosophy of the Bhagavat Gita. 6. Fichte's "Destination of Man." 7. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre - Theoretical. 8. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre - Practical. 9. Historical Epochs of Art. 10. Landscape Painting - Turner. : |