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Rediscovering Plato's Beauty | Thomas Jockin

Dr. John Vervaeke

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19 जुलाई 2024

Thomas Jockin is a Fellow at the Halkyon Guild and the Founder of TypeThursday. He has taught at Pratt Institute, FIT (SUNY), Queens College (CUNY), and City College of New York (CUNY). Sign Up for Thomas Jockin's Course: Plato on Beauty and Virtue | Halkyon Academy Can re-engaging with class…

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From Parsons to Type Thursday: a conversation with Thomas Jockin.

Creative Characters

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7 अगस्त 2024

This week on Creative Characters, host Charles Nix sits down with Thomas Jockin, the founder of Type Thursday, a global type meetup. The two discuss Thomas's journey from an art-obsessed youth on Long Island to becoming a key figure in the global type design community. Thomas shares pivotal moments…

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Could beauty be the basis for an Interfaith dialogue with Islam? w/ Thomas Jockin

SENSESPACE

23 सितमबर 2024

This, our first dialogue takes small but significant steps into thinking through an interfaith dialogue with Islam can look like. We explore the intersection of this dialogue with philosophy and the good, true and beautiful. Thomas Jockin brings a studied perspective to the significance of beauty a…

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Fine lines in type design – with Thomas Jockin

How Books Are Made

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27 सितमबर 2024 · अनुलिपि

Everything we read is coloured by its typeface. And humans read a lot, so font choices probably affect more people than any other field of design. In our daily lives, we rarely appreciate how much work goes into good type decisions, and how much energy we spend accommodating bad ones. Every day, by…

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On Plato, Beauty, and the Future of Higher Education

Johannes A. Niederhauser

20 जुलाई 2024

What is the main difference between legacy institutions of higher learning and the newly emerging online first digital schools? In this dialogue Thomas Jockin and Johannes Niederhauser try and show how the so-called planetary university is increasingly a stifling environment and, evoking Plato and…

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Plato: Seeing the Forms through Beauty

Johannes A. Niederhauser

28 जून 2024

In this wide-ranging conversation Thomas Jockin and yours truly converse around the importance of beauty in Plato’s philosophy. We bring in Aristotle’s nous and potentiality to make us see that yes it is possible to see the forms, to see the ideas in the medium of the Beautiful. We also emphasise…

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Lexend: An Incomplete History of Type

Talk Paper Scissors

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25 मार्च 2025

Send us Fan Mail From the middle ages to the Middle East, From Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before...Welcome to An Incomplete History of Type (Part 5!) This episode is guest hosted by Matthew Karton. Name: Lexend Release Date: 2…

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Beauty Changes Your Life - Plato, Aristotle, and the Beautiful w. Thomas Jockin

Parallax

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29 मई 2026

Thomas Jockin’s four-part course, Beauty Changes Your Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Beautiful, begins Monday, July 6, 2026, with live sessions on July 6, 13, 20, and 27. The course explores beauty as memory, virtue, desire, form, and philosophical inquiry through readings of Plato and Aristotle. …

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John Vervaeke & Thomas Jockin - How Beauty Saves the World

Parallax

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30 जून 2026

John Vervaeke and Thomas Jockin join Andrew Sweeny at Parallax for a conversation on beauty, Plato, Aristotle, the sacred, and the meaning crisis. What if the meaning crisis is also a crisis of beauty — and what if beauty is not merely something we like, but something that asks us to change our liv…

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