This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Circular Ruins" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative and the key philosophical themes of this tale. It centers on a sorcerer who has the desire to dream another human being into reality, which he does at the abandoned temple of the fire-god. After a failure, he dreams meticulously all of the organs of the person's body, but is unable to give him consciousness, which the fire-god miraculously does for him.

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins - Sadler's Lectures

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