What’s next? Leonard Peikoff makes an educated guess about the future of the West based on an epistemological and historical analysis of four distinct cultural fields.

Objectivism is a revolutionary, recent philosophy developed throughout the 20th century by Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).

Celebrating the 2607th anniversary of human reason.

Kant’s epistemology begins with the proposition that whenever our senses come into contact with reality, they are “filtered” or “categorised” through our unconscious “bodily apparatus”.

This week, we commence the modern era of the history of philosophy with Descartes, Locke, and an introduction to the rationalism-empiricism debate.

With Ancient Greece and argument analysis behind us, we cover over 1,600 years of the history of philosophy in one hour.

Learn to take apart an argument and analyse its truth, validity, soundness, underlying assumptions, strengths and weaknesses.

Aristotle represents Greece at the height of its civilisation, and the greatness of the human intellect.

Plato developed the first comprehensive philosophic system, covering everything from the nature of reality to a very specific account of the ideal state, in which justice reigns supreme.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC) implored us to question everything. His famous dictum “I know that I know nothing”, however, far from endorsing the modern kind of hopeless skepticism, calls each individual to reason and think for themselves. He was among the first to hold explicitly the view that tradition, religion and authority did not necessarily hold all the right answers - even if they acted as if they did.

This course on the history of philosophy is ideal for undergraduate philosophy students seeking to acquire a general understanding of the field to assist with their studies.