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Dive into the world's traditions of philosophy, and take your study deeper with philosophy courses by email. Courses run for seven weeks, six times a year. You can join any time. In each course, we take a theme to explore using the rich resources of the world's philosophical traditions. Join our community, and let's do philosophy together!

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"Love and Understanding": The tangle of love and wisdom (Season 02:7)

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Is philosophy the love of wisdom? Or is it, as some philosophers have suggested, the wisdom of love? And what do love and wisdom have to do with each other anyway?

10 min read Apr 12, 2021

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“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” Love, trust and the future (Season 02:6)

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What does it mean to say "I love you"? And how do these three little words change our sense of ourselves, our commitments, and our future?

9 min read Apr 5, 2021

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Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong? Love, transcendence and madness (Season 02:5)

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Does love lift us up where we belong? Or is it a kind of madness? In this week's class, we plunge into Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus to find out.

9 min read Mar 29, 2021

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You Sexy Thing: Getting philosophical about sex (Season 02:4)

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In this week's class, we are getting philosophical about desire, and asking questions about the philosophy of sex. Happy reading!

9 min read Mar 22, 2021

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Something So Right: Love and Justice (Season 02:3)

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What are the limits of human love? Can we love everyone? Or should we only focus on those closest to us? And what happens when our personal loves and commitments come into contact with impersonal questions of justice?

10 min read Mar 15, 2021

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We All Stand Together: Love, connection and community (Season 02:2)

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In this week's class, we are exploring Amazonian social philosophies of love and community, and how for social primates, community is fundamental to how we live and love.

10 min read Mar 8, 2021

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Let's Do It: The Philosophy of Love (Season 02:1)

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Welcome to the first lesson in our Season 2 series, taking a global perspective on the philosophy of love.

10 min read Mar 1, 2021

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Giving up on Philosophy? The Science of Wisdom (Season 01:7)

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The last few decades have seen a growth in the scientific study of wisdom. But what is the science of wisdom? And what gets left out of these accounts?

10 min read Feb 15, 2021

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The Opposite of Wisdom: A Fool's Philosophy (Season 01:6)

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Philosophy is the love of wisdom. But throughout its history, philosophy has also been haunted by wisdom's opposite: foolishness. So what is the relationship between philosophy and foolishness?

10 min read Feb 8, 2021

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Nurturing the Sprouts of Wisdom (Season 01:5)

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For Mencius and Aristotle, wisdom involves the cultivation of virtues. But how do we do thi, and how do we build a society that supports this cultivation?

9 min read Feb 1, 2021

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That Gut Feeling: Wisdom and the body (Season 01:4)

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Wisdom is often seen as an intellectual virtue. But what role does the body have in developing and maintaining wisdom? In this class, we're looking at flesh and spirit, gut feelings, and why wisdom cannot ignore the body.

9 min read Jan 25, 2021

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The Limits of Wisdom (Season 01:3)

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In this week's class, we're exploring the limits of wisdom, and we're looking at two very different philosophers, one from the European tradition, and one from the Chinese tradition: Socrates and Zhuangzi.

11 min read Jan 18, 2021