Would you like to enhance your skills in evaluating reasoning and the presentation of ideas? Are you interested in exploring the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence? Join our Philosophy workshops to discuss with the experts and others who have the same interests.
Dr. Doug Adeney considers five important views of morality and society, advanced respectively by Aristotle, Machiavelli, Mill, Nietzsche, and Iris Murdoch.
Thursday, 17th October - 5 classes
Session ID
DNAS1901C
17 Oct - 14 Nov
11:00am - 12:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$219 / $209 (conc)
$219 / $209 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas Adeney
Douglas Adeney
Join Dr Douglas Adeney to consider five important ideas on morality, advanced respectively by five major philosophers – Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant, and Sartre.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email enquiries@cae.edu.au to register your interest.
The debates over (1) determinism and its threat to human freedom, and (2) the objectivity or relativity of morality, are two of philosophy’s classics.
Thursday, 25th July - 5 classes
Session ID
DNZ66702C
25 Jul - 22 Aug
11:00am - 12:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$219 / $209 (conc)
$219 / $209 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas Adeney
Douglas Adeney
A brief introduction to two major figures in English political philosophy, and their famous views on legitimate government and private property (John Locke), and freedom of action and expression (J.S. Mill).
Thursday, 29th August - 4 classes
Session ID
DNAT5401C
29 Aug - 19 Sep
11:00am - 12:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$185 / $176 (conc)
$185 / $176 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas Adeney
Douglas Adeney
Is religious belief supported by a rational case for its truth? Or by its potential benefits? Or by ‘faith’? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to investigate.
Wednesday, 16th October - 3 classes
Session ID
DNAD5302C
16 Oct - 30 Oct
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$149 / $142 (conc)
$149 / $142 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas Adeney
Douglas Adeney
Life -meaningless? But if it has a meaning, what is it? Dr. Doug Adeney examines the questions and considers various responses including those of Tolstoy, Camus, Nagel and Monty Python.
Wednesday, 24th July - 3 classes
Session ID
DNAD5001C
24 Jul - 7 Aug
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$149 / $142 (conc)
$149 / $142 (conc)
Teacher
Douglas Adeney
Douglas Adeney
Envy and jealousy. How do these differ? Do each of them come in good and bad varieties? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to explore some aspects of these potent emotions.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email enquiries@cae.edu.au to register your interest.
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