#1 – Family; Early formation; Intelligence, education; Work; Home; University; Interest in philosophy#2 – MA in philosophy; Ideas of Canada; Continental philosophy; Frankfurt school; PhD, York University, Bill Leiss; Freud; Concepts of reason; Experience and assimilation; Philosophical address; Commentary and dialogue#3 – Early years teaching; Production and instruction; Philosophy and Communications; University of Massachusetts; Rhetoric; Canadian Studies; Interest in environment and ecology; Simon Fraser University, the humanities; Jerry Zaslove; Emergent Publics#4 – Works of appreciation: Anarcho-Modernism (Jerry Zaslove), Athens and Jerusalem (George Grant); Writing differently for one’s readers; Translating ideas; A common human condition; Thinking, following, agreeing#5 – Reading and questions of influence; George Grant, Christianity, Hinduism; Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment; Enlightenment, knowledge, wisdom, culture; Education and courage; Forms of experience; Critique and crisis; Thinking and being; Being and seeming#6 – Philosophy in Canada, philosophy of Canada; A Border Within; Identity, difference, integrity; Identity and Justice; Patience, repetition#7 – Distinctiveness, particularity, singularity, individuality, universality; Phenomena of movement; Fackenheim and Hegel; Socrates and Plato; Certainties and absolutes; Heidegger and Levinas; Reading ‘A Phenomenology of Locality’ in Identity and Justice; Registers of philosophical discourse, modes of inhabitation; Philosophy, living the human condition; Asymmetry; Circles, perfection; Tragedy as the human condition#8 – Elemental matters; Completion and incompletion, fullness and teleology; Integration of idea and experience; Metaphysics and presence; Movement; Though and products of thought; Concept and manifestation; Thinking and life; Unresolvedness; Philosophy as a custodian of thought; Identity and belonging together; Rosenzweig, Jewish thought; Naming and knowing; One’s own thinking; Rootedness and encounter; Tonality; Intuitive interest; Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, privative negation; Naming things; Conceiving totality; The two key statements in philosophy#9 – Privative negation; Discipline and freedom; Ultimates, tradition; Religion, philosophy; Belief, heresy; Solitary inquiry, rootedness; Ceremony, custom#10 – Friendship; Ends, ongoing vitality; Aristotle on friendship; Obligation, mutuality; Different kinds of love; Provisional and abstract concepts; Finitude and love; Mortality; Laughter; Desire for more; Plenitude; Holding lightly; Laughter as freedom; Joyful wisdom, Nietzsche; A burst of abundance
