Would you like to enhance your skills in evaluating reasoning and the presentation of ideas? Are you interested in exploring the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence? Join our Philosophy workshops to discuss with the experts and others who have the same interests.
Please note: All courses without ‘online’ in the title refer to a face to face delivery.
Would you like to enhance your skills in evaluating, reasoning and the presentation of ideas? Join Dr Doug Adeney to identify and reflect on some good and not so good examples, on topics ranging from the everyday to hot topics.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
An introduction to five famous works in political philosophy: Plato (Republic), Aristotle (Politics), Machiavelli (The Prince), Hobbes (Leviathan), Marx & Engels (Communist Manifesto).
Tuesday, 21st April - 5 classes
Session ID
DNBB1901C
21 Apr - 19 May
10:30am - 12:30pm
Location
CBD
Session Fees
$395 / $375 (conc)
$395 / $375 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas ADENEY
Douglas ADENEY
A critical discussion of key philosophical ideas in Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Iris Murdoch.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
What is philosophy? What good is it? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to address these questions and then a couple of philosophy’s classic problems.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
Is religious belief supported by a rational case for its truth? Or by its potential benefits? Or by ‘faith’? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to investigate.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
If life a meaning, what is it? Dr. Doug Adeney examines the questions and various responses of Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, Thomas Nagel, Susan Wolf, and Monty Python.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
Are we just physical organisms or is there more to the essence of a person? What is the self, or is there no underlying self at all? Explore with Dr Doug Adeney, some major questions about our nature.
Tuesday, 14th July - 5 classes
Session ID
DNZ82101C
14 Jul - 18 Aug
10:30am - 12:30pm
Location
CBD
Session Fees
$395 / $375 (conc)
$395 / $375 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas ADENEY
Douglas ADENEY
History, Culture and Philosophy Courses Coming Up
Your Mind, Your Body, and You
Join Dr Douglas Adeney to explore some major questions about our nature. Are we just physical organisms, as materialists say? Or is there a...
Five Great Political Texts
A brief introduction to five famous works in political philosophy:
Plato, Republic (c. 380BC), an account of the ideal state, which will...