Schedule
All meetings are held in the Massachusetts Hall Faculty Room at 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted.
24 January, 2010:
Disputation XXXVIII. Resolved: Healthcare is a Right.
Affirmative: Daniel Jose, Oakeville ‘10
Negative: John Cunningham, Locke ‘10
4 February, 2010 :
Disputation XXXVIX. Resolved: The McKeen Center for the Common Good is enriching liberal education at Bowdoin College.
Affirmative: Jamey Anderson ‘10
Negative: Samuel Smith, Daedalus ‘10
11 February, 2010:
Disputation XL. Resolved: The green movement is a threat to our liberty.
Affirmative: Steve Robinson, Beezlebub ‘11
Negative: Wesley Hartwell, Caesar ‘11
18 February, 2010:
Disputation XLI. Resolved: All atheism leads to the crisis of nihilism.
Affirmative: Tobias Nickel ‘13
Negative: Melanie Tsang ‘13
25 February, 2010:
Disputation XLII. Resolved: National identity is an elevating force in society.
Affirmative: Chad Attenborough ‘12
Negative: Hannah Lorastein ‘13
3 March, 2010 :
Disputation XLIII. Resolved: Suburbs are incapable of fostering genuine community.
Affirmative: Bryant Johnson ‘11
Negative: Tanner Horst ‘13
12 March, 2010 :
Disputation XLIV. Resolved: Modern Technology is alienating us from our nature.
General Debate
1 April, 2010:
Disputation XLV. Resolved: Love Exists.
Discussion of Plato’s Symposium led by Rodino Anderson and James Stillwaggon
2 April 2010:
Peucinian-Sponsored Lecture.
Rodino Anderson: “Anorgasmia in Plato’s Symposium”
8 April, 2010:
Disputation XLVI. Resolved: Humans should strive for utopia.
Affirmative: Hannah Lorastein ‘13
Negative: Nick Daniels, Cicero ‘12
15 April, 2010:
Disputation XLVII. Resolved: The life of Don Juan is better than the life of Socrates.
Affirmative: Tobias Nickel ‘13
Negative: Judah Isseroff '13
22 April, 2010 :
Disputation XLVIII. Resolved: Sapere Aude!
Affirmative: Wesley Hartwell '11
Negative: Timothy O'Brien '10
29 April, 2010 :
Government Department Lecture.
Michael Uhlmann: "Who's Afraid of Executive Power?"
6 May, 2010:
Treatise Presentation Session I
Timothy O'Brien '10: "Christianity, the Pagan Imagination, and the Need for a More Traditional Conservatism"
12 May, 2010:
Annual Banquet, 5:00 p.m.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
15 May, 2010:
Treatise Presentation Session II, 3:00 p.m.
Christine Carletta '10: Religious School Vouchers and the Free Exercise Clause
Samuel Smith '10: Henry James and the Modern Age
16 May, 2010:
Treatise Presentation Session II, 3:00 p.m.
Daniel Jose '10: Intimations of Individuality: Oakeshott Contra Nietzsche on the Question of Democracy
