Recording of a lecture delivered on November 28, 1973, by Beate Ruhm von Oppen as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered by Mitzi Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, on February 7, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Dr. Lee offers this description for her lecture: "What kind of a virtue is justice, and how does it differ from the other virtues, according to Aristotle? I shall argue that, for Aristotle, justice is fundamentally concerned with bringing about just outcomes and states of affairs."

Recording of a lecture delivered on January 20, 2017, by Matthew Linck as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture given on September 14, 1973, by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 22, 2017, by Margaret Kirby as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of a lecture delivered on September 30, 2016, by Leon Kass as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Kass describes his lecture as, "a close examination and fresh interpretation of the Biblical text (Exodus 20)."

Recording of a lecture delivered on August 26, 2022, by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture is the first of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson Lecture".

Recording of a lecture delivered by Patricia Locke, Annapolis tutor on October 2, 2020, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Recording of the National Endowment for the Humanities lecture delivered on April 22, 2022, by Annapolis tutor Jason Tipton as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Tipton describes his lecture: "Many animals, Aristotle claims, live by imagination.  In an important way, we can understand that imagination is the product of the process of perception and the condition for noetic activity.  It is both an end and a beginning.  Imagination is proto-cognitive and supra perceptual.  The task will be to disentangle imagination from perception and understanding so that we might see the proper unities that come to be."

Recording of a lecture delivered on November 19, 2021, by Melvin Rogers as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Professor Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science at Brown University.  His current book project is The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.

Professor Rogers describes his lecture: "'One of the fundamental paradoxes of black politics,' writes Barnor Hesse and Juliet Hooker, is 'the invariable futility of directing activism toward a racially governing regime historically founded on the constitutive exclusion and violation of blackness.' This paradox raises a fundamental question: How can African Americans appeal to the nation in the name of freedom and equal standing, if the ethical and political presuppositions of the polity turn on their fundamental exclusion? Although this question animates our contemporary moment, especially with the ascendancy of Afro-pessimism, this essay recovers its initial articulation as well as pessimistic response from the 19th century African American nationalist Martin Delany. And it seeks to distill from Delany’s counterpart, Frederick Douglass, an alternative vision that both resist the paradox and the political logic that gives it shape.