Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

Free university level humanities study for adults on low incomes: Plato-Dante-Luther-Eliot & many others. Amy Bird, Director: RT is not endorsement. halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca Halifax, Nova Scotia Joined February 2010

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

4 weeks ago

Mark your calendars for a HalHum 101 info session on Sep 13 at 1:30 PM at the North Memorial Library! Hear from graduates of the program, and experience the joy of learning as we’re guided through the ancient poetry of Sappho with Dr. Eli Diamond. halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca/sappho/

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

a month ago

Applications for Halifax Humanities 101 are now OPEN! If you love reading and discussing big questions, then this FREE 8-month great books course is for you! Apply today: halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca/application-fo…

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

3 months ago

A HUGE congratulations to our graduates! "It's customary to end on a quote.... : 'The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.' And I'll just add that our minds have been wildfires." Terra Nova Rubacha, HH101 Valedictorian 2025

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

4 months ago

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man's flesh shrinks away." Simone Weil, "The Iliad, or, the Poem of Force"

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

"Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin something new." Hannah Arendt, "Labor, Work, Action"

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

""I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order?" T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

Our Humanities Today Lecture featuring Dr. Peter Adamson is TOMORROW! For all the lovers of wisdom and the sceptics as well - come one, come all!

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

"Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;" Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

From a Talk at Google that Peter Adamson gave back in 2017: "And you don’t cover [female philosophers] because you’re being politically correct, or something, you cover them because they’re there." Join us next week on Wednesday, April 16 to hear how the project has grown since!

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

The schools are closed today, so we unfortunately have to cancel class. Stay cozy everyone!

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

Our Humanities Today Lecture with Dr. Peter Adamson is in two weeks! Now is a great time to dip into his podcast, The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Here's the latest episode, "Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works": historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-life…

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Halifax Humanities @HalHum101

5 months ago

"The principal objective of every science of life, whether individual or social is, in brief, to define and explain the normal state and to distinguish it from its opposite." Émile Durkheim, The Science of Morality