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 texts in political philosophy: Plato (Republic), Aristotle (Politics), Machiavelli (The Prince), Hobbes (Leviathan), Marx & Engels (Communist Manifesto).
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email customer.care@boxhill.edu.au to register your interest.
A critical discussion of key philosophical ideas in Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Iris Murdoch.
Tuesday, 29th July - 5 classes
Session ID
DNAY6301C
29 Jul - 2 Sep
10:30am - 12:30pm
Location
CBD
Session Fees
$360 / $342 (conc)
$360 / $342 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas ADENEY
Douglas ADENEY
What is philosophy? What is its value? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to address these questions and some selected philosophical issues concerning the good life.
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.
Tuesday, 7th October - 4 classes
Session ID
DNAD5001C
7 Oct - 28 Oct
10:30am - 12:30pm
Location
CBD
Session Fees
$328 / $312 (conc)
$328 / $312 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas ADENEY
Douglas ADENEY
History, Culture and Philosophy Courses Coming Up
The Meaning of Life
Some say that human life is meaningless, or absurd. How so? If this is true, how should we feel, and what should we do about it? On the...
George Orwell: The Conscience of an Age
Introduction to the life and work of George Orwell: novelist, essayist, social commentator and journalist, whose experiences in colonial...