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Aesthetics Foundations
Completed the introductory course on aesthetics: theories of beauty from Plato to Kant, Hume's standard of taste, definitions of art, the paradoxes of tragedy and fiction, interpretation and the artist's intention, taste across cultures, art and morality, natural beauty and the sublime, and debates over photography and AI-generated art. 0 holders
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Ancient Greek Philosophy Foundations
Completed the introductory course on ancient Greek philosophy, from the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to the Hellenistic schools, Greek political thought and the long legacy of Greek ideas. 1 holder
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Eastern Philosophy Foundations
Completed the introductory course on the philosophical traditions of China, India and Japan, including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Buddhism, the Upanishads, Jainism and the Bhagavad Gita, and their dialogue with Western thought. 0 holders
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Epistemology
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The study of knowledge, truth, evidence and justified belief. 0 holders
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Ethics
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The study of right and wrong, good lives and what we owe to one another. 0 holders
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Existentialism Foundations
Completed the introductory course on the central themes, major thinkers, answers to pessimism, practical influence and leading critiques of existentialism. 0 holders
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Free Will and the Mind Foundations
Completed the introductory course on the mind-body problem, consciousness, personal identity, free will and determinism, the neuroscience of choice, moral responsibility and the minds of animals and machines. 0 holders
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Happiness and the Good Life Foundations
Completed the introductory course on happiness and the good life: hedonism and the experience machine, desire and objective list theories of well-being, Aristotle's eudaimonia, Epicurean, Buddhist and Confucian views, research on income, adaptation and relationships, meaning versus happiness, and the measurement of national well-being. 0 holders
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Logic
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The study of good reasoning: how conclusions follow from reasons. 0 holders
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Political Philosophy
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Theories of power, justice, the state and how societies should be organized. 0 holders
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Religion and Secularism Foundations
Completed the introductory course on defining religion, the arguments for and against God's existence, faith and reason, religion and morality, secularism and the state, religion in public life and living together across belief. 0 holders
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Stoicism Foundations
Completed the introductory course on the origins, central ideas, theory of emotions, Roman writers, cosmopolitan ethics, daily practices, critiques and modern legacy of Stoicism. 0 holders
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Universal Humanism
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The ethical framework at the heart of CivilSimian. 0 holders
