Hellenistic Philosophy
Summer Term 2018, Tuesdays, 15:00 – 17:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. How stoic were the Stoics? Was Epicurus only interested in pleasure? Why did Diogenes live in a barrel? Hellenistic philosophy is complex, fascinating and rewarding to read, yet often an afterthought of our philosophical education. We will engage with the ideas […]
Kant Reading Group
Summer Term 2018, Tuesdays, 14:00 – 15:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. An interactive reading group. This year we will study Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals (1797-98) [NOT the Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals]. The term-fee is only £20, reflecting the shortness of the meetings. An interactive reading group. The term-fee is only £20, reflecting […]
Religion and Politics
Summer Term 2018, Tuesdays, 11:00 – 13:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutors: Anja Steinbauer and John Holroyd. “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” – Thus argues Mahatma Gandhi. This course will consider philosophical explanations of what religion is, how its social and political effects can be described, […]
History of Philosophy 3: From Nietzsche — to Now
Summer Term 2018, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 23rd April Course Tutor: Jane O’Grady. If God is dead, as Nietzsche claimed, what happens to truth and morality? We shall consider the re-making of values, humanity and truth — in Nietzsche’s ‘aristocratic radicalism’, John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism and feminism, William James’s pragmatism and Freud’s unconscious; in […]
Iraqis Living With Trauma in a War Zone & How to Cope With It
Tadhamun (Iraqi Women Solidarity) invites experts and health practitioners to discuss the impact of the continuing cycle of war and occupation upon the Iraqi population. Psychological trauma runs deep within communities that have survived or continue to live under war and occupation. These invisible wounds are particularly prevalent amongst children; whose childhoods and educational development […]
Thinking on Sunday: What role for Capitalism in the digital age?
The fall of Communism in 1989 was widely proclaimed as the indisputable triumph of capitalism and even “the end of history”. However, in the generation since then the flaws in the system, many of which had been apparent for decades, have been ever more starkly revealed as the “neo-liberal” model has crumbled. Above all, it […]
Wittgenstein
Summer Term 2018, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 23rd April Course Tutor: Mark Fielding Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of a very select number of philosophers who transformed the subject in the twentieth century. The course follows the development from his work in the foundations of mathematics which led to the Tractatus and continues through the middle period […]
The Self in Decline: Philosophy and Loss
Summer Term 2018, Mondays, 17:00 – 19:00, ten weeks starting 23rd April Course Tutor: Mark Fielding To enrol, please e-mail Mark (mark[at]londonschoolofphilosophy.org).
German Idealism Reading Group
Summer Term 2018, Mondays, 15:00 – 17:00, ten weeks starting 23rd April Course Tutor: Meade McCloughan. See course outline for more information. To enrol, please e-mail Meade (meade[at]londonschoolofphilosophy.org).