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Philosophy Classes Coming up in New York and Online
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Intro to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith & Death
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Full Course Name: Introduction to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith, and Death Søren Kierkegaard—Hamlet’s equally melancholic Danish counterpart—is frequently regarded as the father of existentialism for his exploration of concepts such as subjectivity, anxiety, and absurdity. This course will be an introduction to the main ideas of the nineteenth-century philosopher and theologian. How did Kierkegaard—through puzzles, pseudonyms, and...
Tuesday Jun 6th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Core Mat I - Regular
Power Pilates @ 920 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10022
The Core Mat I program is the foundation of the Power Pilates method. Each subsequent program builds upon the information learned during this course. During this weekend you will learn to teach the 18 beginner level mat exercises and be introduced to Power Pilates teaching tools, philosophy, and teaching formula. Every student new to Power Pilates must start with Core Mat I. Core Mat I & II are required to progress to the Comprehensive...
Friday Jun 9th, 4–8pm Eastern Time
(3 sessions)
Childbirth Education Basics (3 Hours)
Birth Day Presence @ 477 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
ALL in person instructors are fully vaccinated and COVID safety measures will be implemented. All participants must show proof of vaccination (via Excelsior app or photo of Vaccination card, must be two weeks since second dose). This fast and furious childbirth preparation class is an interactive, intimate in-person group class in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Our childbirth preparation classes are well rounded and accessible and you'll have the opportunity...
Wednesday Jun 7th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end goal? Can we deduce general historical patterns from studying the past? Is it naïve to hope and work for a better future? From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, liberal, Marxist, positivist, and post-structuralist thinkers have offered radically different responses to these fundamental questions related to the philosophy of history. This course will survey these attempts to grapple...
Tuesday Jul 11th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Philosophy of Mind: Thinking and Consciousness
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? Is the mind a reducible, physical system, or is there anything more to consciousness? It’s often taken for granted that the human mind is a kind of computer (and that, similarly, computers can “think,” know, and learn much as humans do). In more classical thought, the mind was frequently regarded as independent of the body, a thing associated with an incorporeal “soul.” But how seriously...
Thursday Jun 8th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
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Walking and Philosophy: Thinking in Motion
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
How does an activity as simple as walking become emblematic of an age—or a school of philosophy? From the wandering peripatetic of ancient Greece to the paradigmatic urban wanderer of 19th century Europe—the flâneur, a boulevard stroller immersed in the throng of human traffic—philosophers have been walking and thinking, alone or in among the crowd, amidst an asymmetrical organization of gazes, at once observing and being observed. The freedom—of...
Thursday Jun 8th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Heidegger/Arendt: Philosophy, Influence, and Being
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s love affair is perhaps the most well-known, if not notorious, in modern Western letters. But, putting the more intimate aspects aside, how can we understand the intellectual connection, sometimes ardent, sometimes ambivalent, sometimes hostile that tied the two together for the majority of their adult lives—even after Heidegger’s turn to Nazism? In this course we will explore the affinities and differences...
Sunday Jun 11th, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Gershom Scholem: Mysticism & the Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Friend to Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, and Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem may be the best known scholar of Jewish Studies in the 20th century. Above all he is associated with launching the modern academic study of Jewish mysticism. However, Scholem’s study of mysticism was only part of his much broader, and far more engaged and systematic thinking, about questions of contemporary politics and the Jewish historical condition. An...
Thursday Jun 8th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Caring for your Newborn Grandchild
A practical, hands on workshop covering all aspects of caring for a newborn, with an emphasis on today’s philosophy and techniques. From what’s changed since your children were babies to modern ideas of feeding, and sleeping, this is an essential class for any grandparent who’ll be spending time with a newborn baby. For Grandparents Only. One or both grandparents welcome.
Tuesday Jul 25th, 3–4:30pm Eastern Time
Qi Gong
Essential Evolution Holistic Wellness @ Virtual Classroom
This healing class focus's on Ying and Yang principals and ancient philosophy. Today we use the techniques of circular movements, tapping, meditation, and vocalization to awaken the bodies self healing response. Restoring a state of balance and health by opening of the acupressure points, meridians, and chakras. Ancient asian practitioner's used this technique to move Chi, find balance and create optimal energy (life force). How to join us online...
Tuesday Jun 6th, 11am–12:15pm Central Time
Online Level 1 Intro to Poetry
Our Online Level I workshop is an introduction to the philosophy on which The Writers Studio was founded in 1987 by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Schultz. Persona writing, a method of borrowing the voice and temperament of accomplished writers, offers writers the imaginative distance and perspective they need to overcome their negative inclinations, their fear of self-exposure and endless doubt. This method also helps writers try on different...
Monday Jul 31st, 7:30–8:30pm Eastern Time
(8 sessions)
HypnoBirthing (Online)
Sakinah Birth @ Online Class
What Is HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method? The HypnoBirthing Philosophy is simple: Birth is instinctive and can be experienced in a calm, joyful and more comfortable manner. Fear, anxiety, and anguish do not have to accompany pregnant women and their birthing experiences. Why HypnoBirthing? HypnoBirthing is a comprehensive and evidence-based childbirth education program. This amazing program teaches both mother and partner about birthing in a...
Saturday Jul 1st, 11am–2pm Central Time
(5 sessions)
Gayl Jones: Mosquito
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Though Gayl Jones is one of the most important writers of the 20th Century, with work that spans prose and poetic examinations of Black women’s lives all across the world, the publication of her 1999 novel Mosquito was met with significant ambivalence. Henry Louis Gates refers to Mosquito as Gayl Jones’ “dissertation”—an imitation of actual oral storytelling, rather than “a linear narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.”...
Monday Jun 5th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
At Antonio Gramsci’s 1928 trial, the prosecutor famously demanded, “we must stop this brain working for twenty years!” Despite being imprisoned in rather brutal conditions by Mussolini’s fascist government, this goal was not achieved. Gramsci would produce, in the notes, scraps, fragments, commentaries, and essays, that constitute his so-called prison notebooks, his most famous thinking. Although the work covers tremendous ground—from...
Tuesday Jul 11th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
ThetaHealing® Basic Certification Training
Infinity Foundation @ Virtual Classroom
ThetaHealing® offers a technique to change beliefs and heal on all levels, in all of your bodies. An effective energy modality, it is especially pertinent for troubling times that can release fear, resentment, and regret. It is also a mind-body technique that uses the energy that flows through all things to produce instantaneous and permanent change at the cellular level. This results in physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Connect...
Friday Jul 28th, 5:30–9:30pm Central Time
(3 sessions)
Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end goal? Can we deduce general historical patterns from studying the past? Is it naïve to hope and work for a better future? From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, liberal, Marxist, positivist, and post-structuralist thinkers have offered radically different responses to these fundamental questions related to the philosophy of history. This course will survey these attempts to grapple...
$315
4 sessions
What is Analytic Philosophy?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY 00000
In the early 20th century, a new generation of thinkers came to believe that European philosophy had reached a dead end. Reacting to what they held was the obfuscatory language and non-sensical direction of post-Kantian philosophy, Cambridge philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore set out to revolutionize philosophy through a fundamental rethinking of its methods and purposes. Their work, and its outgrowths in the philosophies of mathematics,...
$315
4 sessions
On the Philosophy of Marriage
Think Olio @ 899 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
“Marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way,” Soren Kierkegaard once wrote pseudonymously. Was he right? Why do people marry? Should they? In marriage, people promise ‘till death do them part, but can marriage make love stay? Or is it actually the fastest way to cure lovers? Is marriage a good way to organize families, or is it a tool of the patriarchy that keeps men and women in gendered roles and best left shelved in history books?...
$20
Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Long before the development of modern academic and scientific disciplines, the early modern scientific revolution was exemplified by “natural philosophers”—polymaths like Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes who saw no clear distinction between philosophical, scientific, social, and other forms of inquiry. The scientific revolution, born partly from the insights they provided, was also a philosophical revolution,...
$315
4 sessions
Vedantic View of Western Philosophy
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center @ 243 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011
Explore the nature of reality and the relationship between the individual and the world from both Eastern and Western perspectives, based on Swami Sivananda’s book Essays in Philosophy.
$20
Philosophy & Deconstruction: An Introduction to Derrida
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY 00000
The arrival of Jacques Derrida’s work lit the American intellectual landscape ablaze. For many American academics and critics in the 1970s and thereafter, the charismatic Algerian-born Derrida was the face of “French Theory,” and virtually synonymous with postmodernism itself. With his enigmatic prose and seemingly esoteric approach to language, philosophy, and meaning, Derrida proved not only immensely controversial, but also tremendously...
$315
4 sessions
Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Kant’s “Critical philosophy,” which begins with the appearance of the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, is an attempt to understand no less than the scope and limits of human reason, science, and morality. He wrote that the purpose of philosophy is to answer the following fundamental questions: “What can we know? What should we do? What can we hope for?” In other words: can we really know what reality is like, independent...
$315
4 sessions
Eastern Philosophy and Relationships
Think Olio @ 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
Eastern Philosophy and Relationships: The Interplay of Yin & Yang Any and all kinds of relationships often call for us to go to hell and back in order to sustain them “successfully”. Whether its business, romantic, family, or a variety of social relationships, dealing with people seems to have become harder and harder in this age of social media, and times of unchecked political and corporate greed. Because of the pain and anxiety in these...
$20
Ancient Chinese Philosophy for a Better Life
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY 00000
What can we do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Ancient Chinese Philosophy provides some inspiring answers. This one-of-a-kind course introduces important Chinese thinkers and explores what we can use from Ancient Chinese Philosophy in our everyday lives to achieve greater awareness, flourishing, and connection to ourselves and others. Together in class we will meditate and do a close reading of Classical Chinese thinkers in translation,...
$285
6 sessions
Where is Your 'Right Now'? The Philosophy of History
Think Olio @ SoHo Loft -- TBA, Brooklyn, NY 10128
This is a four-part Olio seminar on the philosophy of history. While history is the study of the past, the philosophy of history is a study of how we study the past. Stated differently, the philosophy of history interrogates the historical imagination, and asks us to question why we believe the past is worthy of our attention. In my mind, it is literally the most fascinating question we can ask ourselves. This line of inquiry challenges us to question...
$229.72
4 sessions
Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY 00000
Introduction to Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature For much of Western history, Aristotle was known simply as “the philosopher.” Systematic and extraordinarily wide-ranging, Aristotle’s thought encompasses everything from metaphysics to politics to psychology to logic to poetic tragedy—and even plant biology. A student of Plato, Aristotle originated a philosophy very different in orientation from Platonic idealism, one...
$315
4 sessions
Working with the Taoist Philosophy of the Five Elements
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016
Full Course Name: A Life In Balance: Working with the Taoist Philosophy of the Five Elements The five elements are the basis for many Taoist longevity practices that emphasize harmony and balance. The original Taoist sages who developed them were among the first internal “ecologists,” experimenting with how the different energies of the elements of Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth (and the organs where they manifest) relate to each other....
$45
