Membership is required

$160, $128 Concession

Date:  Thursday 20-Oct-2022
8 weeks (Ended)
Time 1:30pm for 2 hr
Venue: Glyde-in back room
Facilitator: Meera Finnigan

This course is composed of two parts: an introduction to women philosophers, and a phenomenological exploration of what it means to be human. According to Simone de Beauvoir, we humans are a mixture of what she calls freedom and facticity. Facticity being what we are and have little control over - the colour of our eyes, how tall we are, and the particular history that led us to where we are now. Our freedom consists in our ability to examine that facticity, to decide to change it if we can, and to go ahead and make the change. In the long history of philosophy, the key to being fully human is self-awareness. Inscribed on the temple to Apollo at Delphi were the words "Know Thyself." Phenomenology is one way to exercise this most human virtue. We will also look into other virtues such as love, hope, happiness, and peacefulness.