LECTURES FROM CARL N. COLAVITO
Last Lecture Series
"There's Someone I'd Like You To Meet"
1) If you want something, try to get it.2) Improve yourself in as many ways as you can.3) Try to get along with, or at least understand, at least on some level, everyone.
You can try to get power to please the person you are now
or
You can try to get power to fulfill the person you will become.
TEDx Event
"Building Blocks For Your Future: Schools As A Training Camp"
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David ThoreauOur appetites can be mastered. Our passions can be cultivated. We can strengthen our imagination to become visionaries.
Is what I am doing right now, the best possible thing for me to be doing, given my goals and values?
2020/21 "How to Have a Rational Discourse"
Discussed civil discourse; causality; communicative rationality
2018 "Banned Books and Free Speech"
Discussed case of Skokie and the American Nazi; doctrine of menticide; free speech
2019 "Korematsu and Civil Liberties"
Discussed habeas corpus; internment; immigration
2015 "Normalization of Relations with Cuba"
Discussed the Revolution; role of Fidel Castro; U.S. foreign policy