Curriculum – Philosophy Works – Introductory Course Syllabus

Session 1:	What is Philosophy?
	Why study Philosophy?
	A very practical Exercise.
Session 2:	Self-knowledge.
	Being present.
	Neither accept nor reject; practice, observe and verify.
Session 3:	Knowledge vs. information.
	Levels of awareness.
	The spirit of inquiry.
	A Pause that refreshes.
Session 4:	Levels of awareness (cont).
	Tapping your full potential.
	Transcending fear.
Session 5:	A remedy for negative feelings.
	Experiencing deeper levels of being through stillness.
Session 6:	The nature of Beauty — a description from Plato’s ‘Symposium’.
Session 7:	The question: ‘What am I?’
	Finding unity in diversity, the unchanging in a world of change.
Session 8:	Three fundamental universal forces.
	Freedom from pleasure and pain.
Session 9:	The Self beyond the universal forces.
	Reason, justice and injustice.
	Attention - free and bound.
Session 10:	The nature of truth and goodness.
	What’s next? What NOW?

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