Catherine Project

Today is the last day to apply!

We have over 100 courses on offer this fall. Join us for thoughtful, open-ended discussions on great books. Readers from all backgrounds are welcome; participation is free.

View our offerings & apply here: catherineproject.org

Right now I'm trying to decide between Plato (Republic), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway/To The Lighthouse), or Borges (Ficciones). Or James Joyce (Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). Oh, Or Dostoevsky. Or

General Offerings - Catherine Project General Offerings In addition to our Core Program, we offer a variety of courses focused on particular great books, ancient languages, and other related subjects. These courses offer opportunities to ...

Have you ever wondered what being means? Want to not find out? Come read BEING AND TIME with me on Tuesday nights this Fall! Or sign up for one of many other great @catherineproject.bsky.social offerings!

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General Offerings - Catherine Project General Offerings In addition to our Core Program, we offer a variety of courses focused on particular great books, ancient languages, and other related subjects. These courses offer opportunities to ...

Simply an outstanding @catherineproject.bsky.social menu for the fall—one of the richest and broadest I've seen: catherineproject.org/general-offe...

Who wants to read something cool with me this Fall?

Enrollment for our Fall 2025 term is open!

View our Fall 2025 offerings and apply here: catherineproject.org

Registration will close on August 8th.

Registration for our Fall term will open this Thursday, 7/31...

But if you just can't wait to read a great book with great people, we're opening early registration for four groups that start in August!

Follow the link to register or learn more: forms.fillout.com/t/4vGEpx8LN8us

Calling all Boston readers!

Join our summer reading group on utopia and human flourishing. We'll be reading ancient and modern writings by Hesiod, Aristotle, and Aldous Huxley and meeting at Boston University.

See flyer for more details and register at: catherineproject.org/events

If, by some delightful chance, you live in Southern Indiana, we're hosting a series of one-off seminars in Bloomington this summer.

Dave knows that study and conversation are the grounds of true love! Don't you want to love?!

Register here: forms.fillout.com/t/2avxbuFk23us

Join us in Chicago on Saturday, 6/14 for a seminar on selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses!

Visit catherineproject.org/events for more info and to register.

Fyodor Dostoyevski: Crime and Punishment (In-Person) | June BISR Courses at Tribeca Therapy | buff.ly/TwYhLaG

Aristotle: Metaphysics via the Catherine Project [982a 12] And among the kinds of knowledge, we assume the one that is for its own sake and chosen for the sake of knowing more to be wisdom than the one chosen for the sake of results, and that the…

“All human beings by nature stretch themselves out towards knowing.”
On my experience wrestling with Aristotle's 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 via the @catherineproject.bsky.social - and my recovery from same.
#ClassicsBluesky #philsky
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Only one more @catherineproject.bsky.social meeting left for this reading group. 😭

So everyone should stop what they're doing right now and go read “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

Calendar - Catherine Project Community Calendar Please note that while we do our best to provide accurate estimates, all dates are subject to change. To receive the most up-to-date news about our offerings and events, we invite y...

Registration for our Summer term is now closed. Thank you to all 1,000 readers who applied! Placement decisions will start going out on 5/12.

Stay tuned for some exciting upcoming in-person events and see our Community Calendar for Fall term dates.

On the DL, we left the registration form open over the weekend...

Reading Groups Groups meet on the identified dates and times to discuss readings in the listed text(s). Unless otherwise noted, meetings are conducted in English and take place online. Please note: all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day/year. All reading loads are approximate. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God Mondays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/30-8/18 (8 wks) Reading load: 70 pages/week Thomas Aquinas, Selections from the Summa Theologica on Charity and Love Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 PM ET, 6/24-8/12 (8 wks) Reading load: 20-30 (dense) pages/week

Aristotle, On the Soul Thursdays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/12-7/24 (7 wks) Reading load: 20 pages/week Georges Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest Mondays, 6:00-7:30 PM ET, 7/07-7/28 (4 wks) Reading load: 80 pages/week Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/10-7/29 (8 wks) Reading load: 40 pages/week EN ESPAÑOL: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño Programa: Sábados, 8:30-10:00 AM ET, 07/05-07/26 (4 sem.) Cantidad de lectura: 35 pgs. por semana Este grupo de lectura leerá y discutirá el texto en español. Los participantes deberían poder participar de

On the Monastic Life: John Cassian’s Conferences Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/04-7/30 (9 wks) Reading load: 20-30 pages/week Dante, The Divine Comedy Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/05/25-1/22/26 (34 wks) Reading load: 20 pages/week The Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and selections from The Federalist Papers Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/03-8/05 (10 wks) Reading load: 10 pages/week Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Mondays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/09-8/25 (12 wks) Reading load: 70 pages/week

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/04-8/27 (13 wks) Reading load: 70 pages/week Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Thursdays, 8:30-10:00 PM ET, 6/05-8/28 (13 wks) Reading load: 70 pages/week M. Forster, Howards End Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/25-7/16 (4 wks) Reading load: 70 pages/week Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/05-8/07 (10 wks) Reading load: 30-40 pages/week Robert Frost, North of Boston

I applied to join a @catherineproject.bsky.social reading group this summer, and you should, too. Deadline's today! Pictured are the summer offerings through D. (What is there at F and beyond? Guess you'll have to click through to find out...) catherineproject.org/general-offe...

Journal - Catherine Project Issues Commonplace 2, Spring 2025 Commonplace 1, Summer 2024 *Commonplace is meant to be shared! We encourage readers to print out copies and leave them in local libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, e...

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue #2 of our community journal, Commonplace.

Inside are essays on George Eliot, the Iliad, writing as therapy, a Vermeer painting, and Thoreau's approach to education, as well as poetry and art—all by friends and members of our community!

Though I will have my hands full with a spin-off Joyce group covering Ulysses this summer, I highly encourage everyone to check out @catherineproject.bsky.social's summer offerings — there are almost TOO many great ones to choose from! 📚🐝

On the Future of Education and Technology A Philosophical Happy Hour discussing education and technology in light of the first entry in Adam Pugen's “Future is Technoclassical” article.

TODAY! (4/2/25)
5:45–7:15pm ET

Lyceum Institute Happy Hour on the Future of Education and Technology.

We'll be discussing Adam Pugen's article, “The Future is Technoclassical”. Open to the public. Details at the link below.

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Decisions, decisions: what do I want to read this summer: Fiction (Melville, Lu Xun, Bronte, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Achebe)? Poetry (Frost, Milton, Virgil, Li Qingzhao)? Thematic grouping (Democracy, Individualism, Ancient Rome)?

Come read DE ANIMA with me this summer! Or sign up for many other great offerings

Course offerings are up on the Catherine Project site. Take a look at our amazing choices for the Summer 2025 term! If you're interested, I am running our reading group on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers.

Enrollment for our Summer 2025 term is open!

We have a rich and expansive set of reading groups and subject tutorials on offer. As always, there is no cost to participate and we welcome learners from all walks of life.

More info: catherineproject.org
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yf39w9dm

Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus, and countless others: foundations of Western thought. Wouldn't it be a delight to read their works in their native tongue?

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Registration for our Summer 2025 term opens THIS FRIDAY (3/28)!

Follow us here or join our mailing list to be notified when the form is live: catherineproject.org/contact-us

Here's a sneak peak of some of the offerings:

Philosophical Happy Hour Come join us for drinks (adult or otherwise) and a meaningful conversation. Open to the public! Held every Wednesday from 5:45–7:15pm ET.

The habits of intellectual development are always best nourished in communities of living conversation. We cultivate such a community in many ways—including our weekly Philosophical Happy Hour, open to the public.

Come see how we're building a habit of thinking: lyceum.institute/cor...

Washington, DC friends!

We're organizing a local reading group on two classic plays by Shakespeare. See flyer below for details and register at: catherineproject.org/events

We welcome enthusiastic learners from all walks of life. Participation is free, but registration closes this Tuesday, 3/25!

Flannery O’Connor: “Good Country People” (1955) with The Catherine Project Flannery O’Connor The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, “My daughter is a nurse,” or “My daughter is a school teacher,” or …

"I been believing in nothing ever since I was born!”
On reading Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" with @catherineproject.bsky.social
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"For this reason bald men are not defective."
Aristotle, Metaphysics Δ 27 1024a ~29, trans. Sachs