A few questions.
Do you know yourself, and what would it mean to do so? What does it mean to ‘examine your life’? Does life have a purpose? Do we do things for reasons? What is desire? Why do we want what we want? Are you good? What would it mean, to be a good person? Can you be good if you just set your mind to it? What does it mean to be a true friend? What is the relevance of philosophy? Doesn’t the Apostle Paul talk about being ruined by philosophy?
These are some of the one-hundred-or-so questions, raised by ancient thinkers that we will study in this course. We will look at some of the most enduring answers given to these questions by the greatest thinkers in the Western tradition up to the Apostolic period.
And this will draw us into consideration of many central issues in philosophy: truth, justice, love, the soul, reason, politics, etc.
But why not put this in the way the ancient world put it – do people need ‘philosophical resources for the living of their lives’? No; they simply need to know the truth – to know what can be known about the most basic questions of life.
What is the truth about these things, as they saw it? The knowledge we study is knowledge of life – practical knowledge, as relevant to daily life as knowledge of the seasons is to farming.
This course is made available at a reduced price thanks to supporters of this school & the desire of the proprietor to introduce people to the riches of Christian higher learning as it used to be
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during completion of the course