ROCORI Community Education

For ancient philosophers, philosophy was not an academic puzzle-solving endeavor, but a pursuit of wisdom directed toward living an excellent human life. According to the ancient book of Proverbs, wisdom is not only life-giving but lifesaving. For Epicurus, wisdom makes a pleasurable existence possible. For Confucius and Aristotle, wisdom means knowing, understanding and mastering oneself, and living in right relationship with others. In this course, we will examine selections from a variety of ancient thinkers and seek to discover how we might apply their lessons today. For more information, please see https://www.logos4wisdom.com/courses-ancient-wisdom

If you are reading this, you are going to die. Of course, you aren’t going to die because you’re reading this, but because you are human and humans are mortal. How should we think about the nature of death? How should our mortality affect the way we live our lives? This course draws on classical and contemporary philosophical texts related to undying questions about death. Topics include the value of life; the nature of death; the prospect of life after death; ethics and the right to die (including suicide); living and aging in the face of death, and more. For more information, please see https://www.logos4wisdom.com/courses-human-experience