EDUCATION

 

Public Dialogue Series

 

Once a month, at a pre-announced date and location, Praxis Lodge hosts its Public Dialogue Series event. Each session will feature a presentation and an open dialogue on a topic that supports or peratins to our values. These sessions are open to the public (men, women, Masons, and non-Masons).

View the schedule and presentations.

Miscellaneous Public Presentations

The Intersection of Modern Free-Masonry, Humanism, and Secularism
Presented to the Humanists of Idaho and the Boise State Univeristy Secular Student Alliance
Presentation Slides / detailed article

 

United States of America Founding Documents

 

Freemasonry

Online Resources

Books

 

  • Symbols of Freemasonry, by Daniel Beresniak
  • The Grand Orient Of Louisiana: A Short History And Catechism Of A Lost French Rite Masonic Body, by Michael R. Poll
  • Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe, by Margaret C. Jacob
  • The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590-1710, by David Stevenson
  • The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole, by Tobias Churton
  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, by Frances Yates
  • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Francis Amelia Yates
  • Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians and the First Freemasons, by Tobias Churton
  • Revolutionary Brotherhood, by Steven C. Bullock
  • Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, by Albert G. Mackey
  • Anderson's Constitutions of 1723 - Masonic Service Association

 

Video

 
 

Featured Videos

 

Philosophy and Religion

Online Resources

Books

  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
  • Discourse on Method & Meditations, by Rene Descartes
  • Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
  • The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, by Hans Reichenbach
  • Logical Positivism, by A. J. Ayer
  • Fallacy: The Counterfeit of Argument, by W. Ward Fearnside and William B. Holther
  • Introduction to Ethics, by Hurlbut
  • Ethics, by Spinoza
  • Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
  • Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
  • Fragments - Heraclitus

Video

 

Science and Mathematics

Online Resources

Books

  • Entanglement - The Greatest Mystery in Physics, by Amir D. Aczel
  • Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, by David Peat
  • Scientists Confront Creationism, by Laurie R. Godfrey
  • The Origins of Modern Science, by Herbert Butterfield
  • The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, b E.A. Burtt
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn
  • The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Greek Science in Antiquity, by Marshal Clagettyer
  • Einstein's Dream: The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe, by Barry Parker
  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences [1638], by Galileo Galilei
  • The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, by Isaac Newton
  • Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Sacred Mystery of the Cosmos) (1596), Johannes Kepler
  • Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609), by Johannes Kepler
  • Elements, by Euclid

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Culture & Society

Online Resources

Books

  • Cien Años de Soledad – Gabriel García Márquez
  • Color and Democracy – W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game
  • Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  • In My Father’s House – Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Inventing Human Rights – Lynn Hunt
  • Poems of Arab Andalusia – Cola Franzen
  • Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador
  • The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge – Jean François Lyotard
  • Emile – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The Insanity of Normality – Arno Gruen
  • Education and the Significance of Life – Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
  • Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin

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