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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?

Sign up for our online course on Chritianity

What is this online course about?

This Online Interest Course looks into the origins of Christianity and how the written word changed from an oral tradition into a written gospel. How are the gospels represented in the Bible? What can we learn about how the followers of Jesus – the Disciples – are shown in the Bible? This online course will help shine a light on many areas of the topic.

The trial, death and subsequent resurrection of Jesus are major themes of this course as they are within the Bible itself. Whilst there remain differences in the divine nature of Jesus Christ, his role as a Prophet is very important.

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.

Sign up for our online interest course in Virgil’s Aeneid

What is this online course about?

The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes of Troy. It was probably written down in Rome from 30-19 BC during the period of the Emperor Augustus.

The poem is named after the Trojan hero Aeneas, the son of Venus (Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and Anchises, a Trojan aristocrat. Aeneas leads the survivors from the sack of Troy through the Mediterranean, and ultimately to the site of (future) Rome. The Aeneid is therefore a classic foundation narrative.

As with other ancient epics, our hero has to remain resolute in the face of significant divine hostility. Juno, queen of heaven and goddess of marriage, despises the Trojans because she lost a divine beauty contest known as the Judgement of Paris. Venus wins the Judgement by giving a bribe to Paris, a Trojan prince who acts as judge. The bribe is in the form of Helen of Sparta, the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris prefers this bribe to the bribes of the other two contestants – Juno and Minerva.

Sign up for our online interest course in Epistemology

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 interest course looking at Philosophy of Religion

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?