Up Coming Speaking Engagements

Posted By Ric Vatner on March 10, 2010

I have finally been invited to speak at my alma mater philosophy group, Philoagora. 

I found Philoagora on the Internet by accident about twelve months ago. I was searching for some information and was directed to their web site by Google. At first I was sure it must be in England or America as I had never heard of any philosophy groups in Sydney. When I saw they met in a cafe in Glebe Point Rd my first thought was, “Boy they have a Glebe Point Rd over there too”. I know, I can be a bit obtuse at times.

But it was (and still is) a Sydney group and I later discovered they are but one of a thriving group of such clubs in Sydney. After years of reading philosophy on my own, in private (almost but not quite “under the blankets”) I can’t tell you how happy I was to discover that there are hundreds of amateur philosophers like me in Sydney. In fact I can heartily recommend if you want a great night out that is stimulating as well as fun, try visitiing one of these philosophy groups.  I’ll be giving a talk at Philoagora in July on Nietzsche but don’t wait until then, they meet fortnightly at the Fair Trade Cafe, 33 Glebe Point Road.

The next meeting is on March 16th 2010, and the topic is Reinvention: A Philosophy for a Second Life.

March 30, Lou Salome (Who was proposed to by Nietzsche) and Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke) 

April 13th, Toward a Social Ethos

April 27,  A debate: Atheism will never win the battle with Religion

You can see the notes and the schedule of meetings at www.philoagora.com

I’ll put together a list of other philosophy groups later and post it here.

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Ric Vatner
Hi, I've been in Sales and Marketing all my business life but I have also published various magazines from time to time including an audio magazine called BAC to Business (pronounced Back to Business). I've spoken at conferences around the world usually on Marketing but also on Business, Philosophy, Education, Insurance, Media and quite a few other topics, in fact speaking is the major reason I have visited so many countries. Some of my major achievements have been; I sold over $100,000,000 of paid Whole of Life Assurance in two years for Prudential while simultaneously making the Top 5 with four or five other insurance companies in the late 1980's and early Nineties, I won the inaugeral Holbien Scholarship for the Pacific Region with my paper on the future of Newspapers in 2000, I launched the only web site I know of that started its own newspaper with content from the web site and sold it at a profit within six months during the Tech Crash in 2002. And more recently I launched ESTV an online TV Style magazine which has a neat twist, it is the Internet version of a local paper - TV style. In the near future I will launch Best Deals Australia - a unique Shopping Mall - Why unique? - Ah you will have to see it to understand. In the mean time please check out www.estv.com.au or follow us at www.twitter.com/estv. BFN

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