Sign up for our online interest course on Descartes and ‘Dualism’
What is this online course about?
One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.” He reaches this conclusion by arguing that the nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it is possible for one to exist without the other.
This argument gives rise to the famous problem of mind-body causal interaction still debated today: how can the mind cause some of our bodily limbs to move (for example, raising one’s hand to ask a question), and how can the body’s sense organs cause sensations in the mind when their natures are completely different?
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Sign up for our online course in Israel & Palestine
What is this online course about?
This short Online Interest Course covers the history of the founding of Israel, the early wars in the region as well as the impact on Palestinians. This leads into a look at the modern Arab-Israeli conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s longest-running and most controversial conflicts. At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements — the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project — that lay claim to the same territory. From a nation born from the Holocaust to a people fighting for civil rights. In the modern era the relationship between Israel and Palestine is characterised as either an ‘Occupation’ or as a ‘Fight against terrorism’ with distrust and fear ruling on both sides.
Sign up for our online course and learn about Greek Tragedy
What is this online course about?
This online course is all about Greek tragedies. They were a form of theatre written and performed in 5th Century B.C. Greece to honour the God Dionysius.
The playwrights behind the tragedy
The three most famous playwrights were Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus who competed in and won competitions every year. Traditionally, Greek tragedies were trilogies, with each play ending in a moment of catharsis experienced by the protagonist. Unfortunately, except for one, no complete trilogy has survived. The tragedies included in this Online Interest Course are The Agamemnon, Medea, Sophocles’ Electra and the classic Sophocles’ play Antigone.
Sign up for our online course in Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
What is this online course about?
This online course is a great way to study online and learn about Ancient Greek Art and Architecture. It is an overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years. Ancient Greek art and culture have become cornerstones of modern western society. It remains present in popular culture and one can see its reiterations on film, art, architecture, and literature. However, throughout ancient Greek civilisation art underwent several distinct changes in medium, style, use, and accessibility.
Greek architects provided some of the finest and most distinctive buildings in the entire Ancient World and some of their structures, such as temples, theatres, and stadia, would become staple features of towns and cities from antiquity onwards. In addition, the Greek concern with simplicity, proportion, perspective, and harmony in their buildings would go on to greatly influence architects in the Roman world and provide the foundation for the classical architectural orders which would dominate the western world from the Renaissance to the present day.
This course is taken from a previous A Level Philosophy syllabus and looks at the free will versus determinism debate. Is your behaviour the result of forces over which you have no control or are you able to decide for yourself whether to act or behave in a certain way? This course is for anyone with an interest in Philosophy or it can also be studied alongside the current A Level Philosophy course.
