| Philosophy
No special qualifications are required from those
wishing to attend, just a willingness to put into
practice whatever is heard and understood. The course
was completely re-written in 2003. The topics are:
Session
1: What is Philosophy? A very practical exercise.
Session 2: Self-knowledge.
Observation and verification. Neither accepting, nor
rejecting.
Session 3: Knowledge vs information. Levels
of awareness. The spirit of enquiry.
Session
4: Levels of awareness (cont.) Full potential.
Transcending fear.
Session 5: Reason, justice and injustice. Experiencing
deeper levels of being through stillness.
Session 6: Consciousness. The nature of Beauty
- a description from Plato's Symposium.
Session
7: The question: "What am I?"
Session
8: Three fundamental universal forces. Freedom
from pleasure and pain.
Session
9: The self beyond the universal forces. Attention
- free and bound.
Session
10: The nature of truth and goodness.
Note: Deviation from these subjects is possible.
For
those wishing to continue their studies additional
courses are available leading to a system of meditation.
Each
weekly session lasts about two and a half hours, including
a break for refreshment. | |
Economics
Just
and Sustainable Economics
Course
Outline
The School now offers a three term course of Introductory
Economics based on the idea of economics with justice,
or JustEconomics, with each term being a complete
course in itself. Economics with justice is the natural
extension of philosophy into the life of people in
society. We know that individually, people cannot
live without morals, ethics and consideration for
others. The same principles apply to society, yet
economics is routinely taught as though they had no
application at all.
The
courses aim to redress some of the deficiencies and
the result is a fresh and illuminating approach to
many of the major issues of our time:
- wealth
and poverty
- economic
growth and environmental damage
- the
decline of families, inequality
- social
unrest and uncertainty
- human
development human deprivation.
Above
all, the courses seek to show that freedom and prosperity
for every living human being is possible if economic
laws are observed with the intention that economic
arrangements will produce a just outcome.
The Foundation Course
The Foundation Course outlines principles relating
to all the major areas of economic study. The view
that economics is a human study, involving all of
humanity, and that humanity has to be seen in its
context within the whole universe is the starting
point. The message is clear. Importing considerations
of justice, equity and natural law into understanding
how economic laws work really does offer much brighter
prospects for planetary health and human prosperity.
Economics Part 2
Economics Part 2 sets modern economics in its historical
context. By considering the progress of economic thought
and practice it explains how the global economy and
its attendant problems arose. At the same time it
offers a fresh economic analysis that emphasises the
importance of nature as the source of wealth and of
human society as the agent of distribution.
Economics Part 3
Economics Part 3 explores the implications of economics
with justice with particular reference to the imperatives
to economic growth, the problems of food production
and distribution, economic sustainability and human
development. The course attempts to show how principles
of truth, love and service translate into policies
for governments and economic planners and practical
precepts for individual households and businesses.
Please
contact Anthony Jones on 01273 492289 for information. |
