No Limits - Adventures in Learning for Anyone 50+

This course offers a brief tour of the life, work and thought of the great philosophers of the western world.  Beginning with Socrates and his students, we trace the origins of philosophy in Ancient Greece to its flowering in the thought of Christian, Muslim and Jewish thinkers during the Middle Ages.

We then explore the modern foundations of philosophy in the stark realism of Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes, the rationalism of René Descartes, the empiricism of David Hume and the idealism of the German philosophers, Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Finally, we turn to the existentialist movement and their penetrating critiques of much of modern and pre-modern philosophy. 

Instructor: Philosophy Department Faculty
Duration and Date: Six weeks, Jan. 25 - Mar. 8 (no class on Mar. 1)
Class Times: Mondays, 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Carleton Hall, Room 204, 19 MacAulay Lane, UNBF
Course fee: $130.00 + HST

Early-bird price for winter courses is $15 less if you register by January 10, 2010.

Email Beth Paynter or call 506-458-7106 for more information or to register.