Any exploration of Buddhist philosophy must begin with the beliefs that are essential to all Buddhist traditions and sects: the three conditions of existence, the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination / causality, no-self / non-substantiality, karma, r
This course is a philosophical understanding of happiness. This course will look into historical, philosophical, anthropological and psychological perspectives on happiness. What is happiness, how has the understanding of happiness changed historically. W
A study of political thought from early Greece through the 17th Century. Analysis and evaluation of the issues and positions will be conducted using some original sources from philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Locke and Roussea
When you search for truth, whom would you ask? What kind of information source do you think is most reliable? All successful inquiries have one thing in common, virtuous agents. Intellectual virtues are repeated good behaviors that lead to problem-solving
This course asks a fundamental question: What is the process of human understanding be it scientific or non-scientific knowledge? The answer we have come to believe is that no matter how much progress science makes there is a fundamental limit to human un