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.
Join Dr Douglas Adeney to consider five important ideas on morality, advanced respectively by five major philosophers – Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant, and Sartre.
Thursday, 30th May - 5 classes
Session ID
DNAD4601C
30 May - 27 Jun
11:00am - 12:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$219 / $209 (conc)
$219 / $209 (conc)
Teacher
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
What is knowledge, how do we get it, and do we have as much of it as we like to think? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to tackle these questions.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email enquiries@cae.edu.au to register your interest.
What is philosophy? What is its value? Join Dr Douglas Adeney to address these questions and some selected philosophical issues concerning the good life.
Currently, we have no dates scheduled for this course. Please contact us via email enquiries@cae.edu.au to register your interest.
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.
Wednesday, 19th June - 2 classes
Session ID
DNZ91802C
19 Jun - 26 Jun
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
CAE
Session Fees
$110 / $105 (conc)
$110 / $105 (conc)
Teacher
Dr Douglas Adeney considers the subjecct of pride, often condemned as a vice or sin, yet also seen as healthy and virtuous.
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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