HGF Friday Evening Programme Autumn Term 2013

HENRY GEORGE FOUNATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
Programme for Autumn Term 2013
Library Group meets Fridays at 2.30
Please note 1st Library Group meeting is on Friday 27 September – see flyer
Evening Classes: Fridays: 6.40pm to 8.10pm
Please note Evening classes start on 4th October
Date Wk No Tutor Topic Note
04 October
2013
HGF
Wk 1 David Triggs
Problem of Individual Life – Henry
George
For introduction
please see flyer
11 October
2013
HGF
Wk 2 David Triggs
Problem of Individual Life – Henry
George
For introduction
please see flyer
18 October
2013
HGF
Wk 3 Joseph Milne Laws according to Plato
Continuing the study
from previous terms
25 October
2013
HGF
Wk 4 Joseph Milne Social Problems – Henry George
For introduction
please see below
01 November
2013
HGF
Wk 5 half term break
08 November
2013
HGF
Wk 6 Joseph Milne Laws according to Plato
Continuing the study
from previous terms
15 November
2013
HGF
Wk 7 Joseph Milne Social Problems – Henry George
For introduction
please see below
22 November
2013
HGF
Wk 8
Adrian
Bertoluzzi tba
29 November
2013
HGF
Wk 9 Joseph Milne Laws according to Plato
Continuing the study
from previous terms
06 December
2013
HGF
Wk 10 tba tba
Introduction to class: Social Problems – Henry George
In his Social Problems Henry George explores the wider conditions in which a society may flourish.
He argues that a just society is possible only to the degree in which ‘social intelligence’ is cultivated
that informs its institutions and laws. He writes:-
With the beginnings of society arises the need for social intelligence – for that consensus of
individual intelligence which forms a public opinion, a public conscience, a public will, and is
manifested in law, institutions and administration. As society develops, a higher and higher
degree of this social intelligence is required, for the relation of individuals to each other
becomes more intimate and important, and the increasing complexity of the social
organization brings liability to new dangers. (Social Problems Chapter 1)
We shall explore this central idea of George and see how it may be applied to our understanding of
modern society in the quest for justice.