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Peter Kalkavage was a longtime tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he taught from 1977 until 2024 and served as director of the St. John’s Chorus. A scholar of philosophy and music, he authored The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and contributed to acclaimed translations of Plato’s Timaeus, Phaedo, Statesman, and Symposium for the Focus Philosophical Library. He also wrote On the Measurement of Tones and Elements: A Workbook for Freshman Music, both widely used in the college’s music program. ...more

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	Symposium or Drinking Party 4.09 avg rating — 89,637 ratings — published -380 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phaedo by Plato, Eva Brann (Translator/Introduction), Peter Kalkavage (Translator/Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 16,422 ratings — published -380 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato: Meno by Plato, Peter Kalkavage (Translator), Eric Salem (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 10,312 ratings — published -386 — 590 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sophist: The Professor of Wisdom by Plato, Eva Brann (Translator), Peter Kalkavage (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 3,267 ratings — published -360 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Timaeus: Translation. Glossary, Appendices and Introductory Essay by Plato, Peter Kalkavage (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 3,342 ratings — published -360 — 459 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 4.55 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Envisioned Life: Essays in Honor of Eva Brann by Peter Kalkavage (Editor), Eric Salem (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music and the Idea of a World 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elements: A Workbook for Freshman Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Music does not merely sound: It enchants. To listen to music is to give our souls to its power. We do not merely hear and feel but are held and possessed.”
― Peter Kalkavage

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“If architecture, as some have said, is frozen music, then music may rightly be called "flowing architecture." If time indeed stores itself, then time is a constructive rather than destructive force, and a melody is a building in flux, a structured coming-to-be.”
― Peter Kalkavage, Music and the Idea of a World

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“It is not difficult to imagine that music, like Dante’s Beatrice, is one of the ways in which grace operates through beauty—that music, like Beatrice, is a mediator.”
― Peter Kalkavage

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