Practical Philosophy 3: Love - UK Online

£160.00
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After previously completing Practical Philosophy 2: Happiness.

Term Dates: 29 April - 13 July 2024 (half-term w/c 27 May)

For concessionary rates, please contact the team.

Classes are held Tuesday  7:00pm - 8:30pm, via Zoom. 

Exploring the very essence of love and how we relate it to the world around us. Learn what great minds had to say about love, what love is, how it is gained and how it is lost.

The same course will be also offered in-person at Mandeville Place in London, you can view the dates and times here. 

Direct Debit Payments

Payments by Direct Debit are available at a discounted rate of £144 (four payments of £36). To set up a new Direct Debit, please fill in the Direct Debit form and return to our office by Friday 26 April. 

Three concepts of love

The important subject of love. What is love, how is it gained and how is it lost? Different aspects: love, friendship, desire. Is love universal or limited? Does everyone have pure love within their nature?

Pure Love

Pure love expressed through the creation. The effect of pure love being governed by wisdom, attachment or delusion. Thomas à Kempis: the nature of love in overcoming all limits.

Constancy in Love

The expansion and strengthening of pure love. Constancy in love. Shakespeare’s sonnet: Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Love is the natural in-between. Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy.

Object of Love

Directing love to the true essence. Viktor Frankl. The absence of love and its effect. The Upanishad’s view of love.

Causes of Conflict

Limiting love to a small circle. Ramatirtha’s story. The desire to control. Meeting people as if for the first time.

Gratitude. Marcus Aurelius

The nature and effect of gratitude. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Where is love experienced? A model of the structure of mind and heart.

Sufi mysticism

Rumi: love poetry. Mikahil Naimy: Book of Mirdad.

Epictetus

His influence on CBT. Vice Admiral Stockdale, held in captivity in Vietnam in 1965, survived by remembering Epictetus. Ficino on love.

Law and Love

The relationship between law and love. The commandment to love one another. Freedom of law and love together. Do we work for love, duty or reward? What is it to work with love? Kahlil Gibran. Alexander Solzhenitzyn – the realm of the last inch.

Love and Knowledge

How are love and knowledge related? Can we work with both of them together? Khalil Gibran. Review.