PHILOSOPHY FOR BEGINNERS

Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - What is knowledge? What is good and evil? Does free will exist? Is man the measure of all things? What is the ideal state, and could we actually live in it? What is reality, and does it really exist? Is morality a human invention? Is the universe meaningful or absurd -orderly or chaotic? Is there any meaning to life, and what happens when we die?- this course traces the answers given by western philosophy over the last 2,500 years

Key topics covered in your course include:

You'll learn all you need to know about:

1. Ancient philosophy (from the pre-Socratics through Plato to Aristotle) and how Greek ideas helped shape the destiny of the western world.
2. Modern philosophy (Descartes’s rationalism, Locke’s and Hume’s empiricism, Nietzsche’s nihilism, Sartre’s existentialism, Derrida’s deconstruction, and many others).
3. Eastern philosophy (including Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the monotheism of the Middle east).
4. Philosophy’s recent turn to computer modelling to help understand the mind and other highly complex systems.

As a WUACADEMIA student you will have your own personal tutor helping you with your coursework and with any questions you may have

Price

€500