Why engage with an approach to ethics that is 2,300 years old? Because ethics without Aristotle is inconceivable, and his insights into what is good for humans remain invaluable. Join in to explore and discuss the 'Nicomachean Ethics'.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
This course equips leaders and students with tools from the UN's Faith For Rights framework to merge human rights with faith ideals, fostering cohesive communities. It will be delivered through lectures, sharing of case studies and peer-to-peer learning.
Reasoning enables us to acquire knowledge, to persuade others and to evaluate their arguments. But only if we reason well. We shall be learning how to recognise, evaluate, construct and analyse arguments, and how to recognise common fallacies.
Are Kant’s ethics a powerful assertion of the values of humanity and autonomy or a rigid and crypto-theological slave morality? This short online course will examine these questions by means of a close reading of Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
The course looks at what, if anything, it is that Jews, Christians and Muslims are agreeing about when they claim that there is a God; and we shall look at what, if any, prospects there are for rationally defending or attacking this claim.
An introduction to metaphysics, the most general investigation of reality. It has been at the centre of philosophy since the beginning of the Western tradition in ancient Greece, and many of its concerns are the same as those of Plato and Aristotle.
Introduction to the content of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, together with their religious and socio-political backgrounds, languages and main theological themes and interpretations.
Explore the theory and practice of mindfulness/meditation effects within Eastern and Western religious traditions and in a modern therapeutic context. Try out various techniques. Learn about the art and science of meditation, including its controversies.
Feminism is a political movement aiming to end the oppression of women. But what is to be a 'woman'? Do women have distinctive ways of knowing and acting? What is gender injustice? The course engages with such core issues of feminist thought.
Introduction to the content of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, together with their religious and socio-political backgrounds, languages and main theological themes and interpretations.
We think we know, but do we? We think we are free, but are we? We think our actions are moral, but are they? What is this reality we take ourselves to live in? The oldest questions meet the newest technology in this online introduction to philosophy.
We live in a changing world. This course will help you develop an ethical structure for approaching controversial problems of today including assisted dying, war, AI and climate change