Dulaney High School
PHILOSOPHY CLUB
About
Each week in philosophy club we meet and discuss the ideas about all the big ideas: how to live a good life, how society should work, and the nature of reality. Come join us!
Meetings
We meet on the third Thursday of each month in room 204
Get readings on the topic page below or stop by the room for a paper copy
Updates are provided in our Schoology Group.
Leadership
President - Graham O'Connell
Vice President - Julia Li
Secretary - Helia Hung
Meetings 2024-2025
September 19th
Topic
Philosopher
October 17th
Topic
Philosopher
November 21th
Topic
Philosopher
December 19th
Topic
Philosopher
January 16th
Topic
Philosopher
February 20th
Topic
Philosopher
March 20th
Topic
Philosopher
April 10th
Topic
Philosopher
May 15th
Topic
Philosopher
Meetings 2023-2024
October 23, 2023
The Trolley Problem
Phillippa Foot
November 27th, 2023
On The Shortness of Life
Seneca
January 29, 2024
The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
February 26, 2024
On Friendship
Aristotle and Montaigne
May 20th, 2024
Existentialism is A Humanism
Sartre
Possible Future Topics
Readings
Happiness
Seneca - "On Anger"
Seneca - "On The Tranquility of the Mind"
Epictetus - "The Enchiridion"
Marcus Aurelius - "Meditations"
Plato - "The Apology"
Plato - "The Crito"
Haidt - "The Happiness Hypothesis"
Love and Friendship
Aristotle - "On Friendship" from The Nicomachean Ethics
Thich Nhat Hanh - "On Love"
Religion
Pascal - "The Wager"
Ethics
Singer - "The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle"
Singer - "Animal Liberation"
Existentialism
Sartre - "Existentialism is A Humanism"
Camus - "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Videos
David Foster Wallace - "This Is Water"
Nerdwriter - "The Art of Embracing Damage"
Topics Without Readings
Determinism vs. Free Will
The Problem of Evil
Philosophy of Time
Epicureanism
Virtue Ethics
Kant / Lying / Promises / Categorical Imperative