Hey everybody. I just want to make sure everybody is well aware of my new online class that I'm giving this fall foundational political philosophy texts. It is going to kick off the week after Labor Day. The first Saturday class is September 6th. There's also a Monday option. September 8th would be the first day.

I'm trying to get enough people and I'm hoping through this posting, I will get enough people to

officially open the third section, which would be Wednesday evening. So between the three of those,

whatever your time zone, I bet you can fit one of these in. It is every other week just about.

Sometimes there's only a week between a couple of classes just because of holidays and things

that we're scheduling around. So there are nine sessions total before mid-December when it wraps up.

It starts out with Aristotle's politics. And in fact, you should have read that for the first day of class, any, anything that you're going to read from it, which is why it is very important if you might be interested in this class to go right now to partially examine life.com slash class, decide whether you want to sign up so you can get going on that reading. But if you procrastinate, if maybe you're only hearing this and it's already September,

do not fear. I lead off each session by giving a recap of the reading to get everybody up to

speed. Generally, the prep strongly recommended for the session is to listen to the partially

examined life episode associated with the reading, but then of course, the more you can read

of the actual book, the better. The more you'll get out of it. From then on, it is very discussion-oriented.

This is the chance for you who have been listening to the partial to examine life to participate

in something like this experience. Because until you're put on the spot, until you have to

articulate your understanding of readings

verbally to another human being, you don't actually understand.

Now, I understand your hesitation sending me multiple hundreds of dollars to participate in this

thing. This might seem like a risk. So first, I want you to look at partially examined life.com or the

partially examined life Patreon page wherever you're listening to this. And you will see a link to

one of the sessions from last semester. Right. That was a different course. It was cortex and

philosophy. So that session is about the death of Socrates. And the people in there all consented

to my publishing just for you people, the video record unedited of that first session.

So you could see exactly what it's like to be on one of these Zoom calls, to be in one of these classes.

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