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Reading Groups for the 3rd week of March (14 March - 20 March) WEDNESDAY • 18.00 GMT - Solaris Part I • 20.00 GMT- Stirner with Timothy The Unique and Its Property THURSDAY • 20:00 GMT - Metaphysics with Yorgo Augustine (excerpts from his works) FRIDAY • 15:00 GMT - Nietzsche with Andrew Beyond Good and Evil SATURDAY • 14:00 GMT - Plato TBD • 16:00 GMT - Existentialism Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling • 18:00 GMT - Aristotle with Humphrey Nicomachean Ethics • 20:00 GMT - Problems of Philosophy with Ezra SUNDAY • 17:00 GMT - Stoicism with Luciano The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius • 20:30 GMT -Meaning of Life with Sergio: Orthodoxy by Chesterton

Hello again, this is the schedule for the 2nd week of March (7 March - 13 March) MONDAY • 19.30- Philosophy of Mind (pls confirm with Nottola first) WEDNESDAY • 20.30 GMT- Stirner with Timothy, The Unique and Its Property THURSDAY • 20:00 GMT - Metaphysics with Yorgo: Secondary Literature on Augustine FRIDAY • 15:00 GMT - Nietzsche with Andrew, Beyond Good and Evil • 20:00 GMT - Google Cinema with Yorgo, Ivan's Childhood (USSR, 1962). (Last Friday's meeting had to be cancelled, so we repeat with the same movie) SATURDAY • 14:00 GMT - Plato Plato's Republic, Book X (last meeting!) • 16:00 GMT - Existentialism Kierkegaard's, Fear and Trembling • 18:00 GMT - Aristotle with Humphrey, Nicomachean Ethics • 20:00 GMT - Russell's Problems of Philosophy with Ezra (pls confirm with Ezra first) SUNDAY • 16:00 GMT - Stoicism with Luciano, The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius • 20:30 GMT -Meaning of Life with Luciano and Yorgo: Seneca "Life Guided by Stoic Philosophy" (from Cottingham's anthology)

Hello, this is our schedule for the 1st week of January (28 February - 6 January) - link at the top post MONDAY • 19:30 GMT - Philosophy of Mind (pls confirm with Nottola first) WEDNESDAY • 20.30 GMT- Stirner with Timothy, The Unique and Its Property THURSDAY • 20:00 GMT - Ontology with Yorgo: Plotinus on The Immortality of the Soul FRIDAY • 15:00 GMT - Nietzsche with Andrew: Beyond Good and Evil • 20:00 GMT - Google Cinema with Yorgo: Ivan's Childhood (USSR, 1962) • Midnight of Friday to Saturday (1 am GMT) • Taoism (pls confirm with @Taolex first) SATURDAY • 14:00 GMT - Plato's Republic, Book X • 16:00 GMT - Existentialism Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling • 18:00 GMT - Aristotle with Humphrey: Nicomachean Ethics • 20:00 GMT - Russell's Problems of Philosophy with Ezra SUNDAY • 16:00 GMT - Stoicism with Luciano: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius • 20:30 GMT -Meaning of Life with Mauricio: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Hello again, here's this week's schedule (21-27 February) MONDAY • 6.00 am GMT "Peter Singer on Global Suffering" with Yorgo • 19:30 GMT - Philosophy of Mind with Nottola WEDNESDAY • 20.30 GMT- Stirner with Timothy THURSDAY • 20:00 GMT - Ontology with Yorgo: Plotinus FRIDAY • 15:00 GMT - Nietzsche with Andrew Beyond Good and Evil • 20:00 GMT - Film group: Ivan the Terrible (part II) • Midnight of Friday to Saturday (1 am GMT) - Taoism with Alex SATURDAY • 14:00 GMT - Plato reading: The Republic, Book X • 16:00 GMT - Existentialism reading: Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling • 18:00 GMT - Aristotle with Humphrey Nicomachean Ethics • 20:00 GMT - Problems of Philosophy with Ezra SUNDAY • 16:00 GMT - Stoicism with Luciano reading: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius • 20:30 GMT -Meaning of Life reading: TBD

Hello, we are a group of reading and discussion enthusiasts. We run small casual read-togethers of several Great Books. Our discord server is here Below is a non-exhaustive list of our reading groups: Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: Orgazined by Andrew, a New Yorker who majors in biochemistry and German Literature. Andrew works as a lab technician and German tutor. This group meets on Discord's voice chat on Fridays at 15.00 GMT. Stirner's The Unique and its Property: Organized by Timothy, who has a background in Hegelian philosophy. The group reads four pages together every session. Currently, they are in §1.3. "The Free". This group meets on Discord's voice chat at 20.30 GMT on Wednesdays. Marcus Aurelius's The Meditations: Organized by Luciano, a senior software engineer. Luciano is Dutch but currently lives on the Greek island of Lesbos. Luciano previously hosted the group on Epictetus's Enchiridion. This group currently is in Book IV. This group meets on Sundays at 17.00 GMT on Zoom. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Organized by Humphrey, a philosophy student at Newcastle University. Humphrey also runs his own IRL book club. This group currently is in Book III. Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Organized by "Leno" a grad student of engineering. He previously hosted the group on Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. This group is currently on page 21 of the Princeton translation. This group meets on Zoom on Saturdays at 16.00 GMT. Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching: Organized by Alex, a History major, specialized in Early Christianity. This group currently is in Chapter 34 of the Red Pine translation. Alex also organizes a group on Chinese poetry. This group meets on Saturday very early in the morning (1 am GMT) on Discord's voice chat. B. Russell's The Problems of Philosophy: Organized by Ezra, a mathematics student in his early 20s. This group's first meeting is this Saturday at 20.00 GMT. Koch's The Feeling of Life Itself: Organized by "Nottola" a software engineer. "Nottola" is from Spain but currently lives in Rome. This group meets on Google Meet on Mondays at 19.30 GMT. I also organize three groups (Ontology, Meaning of Life, and Plato's Republic). All of them are on Zoom (Thursday 20.00 GMT, Saturday 16.00 GMT, and Sunday 20.30 GMT respectively), on this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2018595025. I studied history in the UK (MPhil Cantab, DPhil Oxon) and I can read Attic. Apart from philosophy, we also monthly discuss non-fiction books (past books include 1984, Notes from the Underground, Brave New World, The Trial by Kafka et al). We also have a film club, we watch an art movie together every Friday at 20.00 GMT. Past movies include: Battleship Potemkin, Arsenal by Dovzhenko, Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Cranes are Flying. All welcome!

I agree with Chocolate2292, having done a PhD myself, it will absorb most of your time. If creative work is your top priority, I'm not sure there's a point in an English Literature PhD.

In other words, it doesn't matter where you ll study or what certificate you'll get but to learn German that allows you to read German non-fiction books from the 19th cent. I have to be honest here, if you are applying to start a PhD in 2022-3 and have no prior knowledge of German, it will be very hard to learn enough German to make an impact while you are writing your PhD. Getting to a level that allows you to read 19th century philology books requires many hundreds of hours of serious study, by the time you ve accomplished this you ll be deep in the writing of your PhD. In terms of cost-benefit, I think it's not worth it. And yes, I'm aware many universities and language schools say otherwise - but then they clearly have an interest to do so. Keep also in mind that (in my experience) foreign lang classes organized by unis allow for false beginners to join beginner classes. However, if we leave aside this unrealistic aim, you might find a tutor (look online, there are plenty of good teachers for as little as 10-15 dollars per hour) work at your own pace and focus at your own needs as a PhD student (make it clear from the beginning what you want and ask whether they can help you with your particular needs.) You wont be able to read Nietzsche or Goethe in a year from now, but you ll be able to learn some relevant terminology and make some sense out of short texts. Hope this helps. PS as a Greek myself I have plenty of friends with advanced studies in Ancient Greek language, philosophy and history (one of them currently a lecturer in the UK and another one here in Athens) without speaking a word of German. Although it helps to have access to the German literature on your topic it is by no means a necessary condition. Attic is a diff story ofc.

Been working as a foreign lang teacher myself for several years now and I often hear similar things from ppl who want to start classes. What exactly do you want to accomplish with this certificate and why this certificate and not another?

@PropheciesMPhil in Cambridge was 9 months long (October to June) and it gave me the tools to do archival research on my own. If you can get in a program like this (research based and relatively short) I think it is worth the trouble assuming you have a scholarship and what you want to do is focus on research and writing. I would not recommend a 2 year MPhil (eg like the one available in Oxford; at least back when I was a student 7-8 years ago) unless I wanted to do a PhD afterwards. It's more than twice longer in duration, much of the extra time is spent on courses that are advanced versions of what you get in an undergraduate degree (although there is more emphasis on methodology) and the second year is dedicated to writing a thesis that is expected to become a chapter of your PhD. tldr: I would give emphasis on the duration and relevance of the content of the MPhil/MA to what I want to do after with this knowledge. Hope this helps.

Since I see the thread is still active, I will weigh in too. I did an Mphil in Cambridge and a PhD in Oxford in Modern European History. Like the OP, I don't feel bitter, but a history PhD isn't something I can honestly recommend as a path to a job. It probably is a good place to be, having a secure income (scholarship) and health insurance, esp. given the current situation. You'll meet interesting people and learn a lot. But it is a significant investment of time with uncertain professional prospects.

Oxford DPhil in Modern European History here (MPhil from Cambridge, for what it's worth). This is my first post on this forum, so forgive me if I'm not fully acquainted with the forums ettiquete yet. Dr Telkanuru's point that a PhD in history won't train you to write popular history is quite correct, at least in my limited UK experience. A PhD will still give valuable skills to someone who wants to write on history as well as credentials, but if you already know that popular rather than academic history is your calling, you might be better off looking at the CVs of people who followed this path. Regarding employment, I would advise caution. To my mind, William Pannapacker makes some interesting points, although sometimes he seems to go a bit too far. (You may find him on twitter.) To be clear I'm not advocating for Pannapacker nor saying he's always right. But he's a voice to listen to before making a decision.