A Study of Christianity

Sign up for our online interest course in Personhood

What is this online course about?

Who am I? Outside of philosophy, ‘personal identity’ usually refers to properties to which we feel a special sense of attachment or ownership. Someone’s personal identity in this sense consists of those properties she takes to “define her as a person” or “make her the person she is”, and which distinguish her from others.

Personhood. What is it to be a person, as opposed to a nonperson? What have we people got that nonpeople haven’t got? More specifically, we can ask at what point in our development from a fertilized egg there comes to be a person, or what it would take for a chimpanzee or a Martian or an electronic computer to be a person, if they could ever be.

Sign up for our online course in Ethics and Moral Philosophy

What is this online course about?

This short Online Interest Course covers the main arguments within Philosophy with a key focus on the Ethics side. It covers a range of key thinkers famous in this subject ranging from Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas all the way up to more recent thinkers like Hobbes and Kant. There is an element of where one’s own pleasure is limited by its impact on other people and how we can avoid damaging others in pursuit of our own goals. Is it more ethical to pursue the greatest good for the greatest number of people?