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.
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.
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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 775846 for information.
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