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Platonic Academy


Moderator: Father Kevin McCabe (kmccabe@shanahan.org)

Meeting Day: Tuesdays @ 2:50pm

Frequency of Meetings: Weekly with some exceptions

Purpose/Activities: A forum for informal discussion in which students bring their curiosities and doubts, so that together we may reason through them, with the help of the great philosophers of the ages.

Requirements: Participants must be rational and capable of free choice.

Officers: Leadership Council Representative: Alaina Lambert

Other Information: Early in the year we gather our interests and plan what thinking we'd like to do. In addition this year, we will take a look at "The Dawkins Delusion", which answers the radical materialism and atheism of Richard Dawkins, who is not much of a philosopher.