PHILOSOPHY 101 – A course for those who Dare to Know and Dare to Change!

If you think there is more to life than just study, work, wedding and having kids, then Philosophy 101 is for you!

PLUS: the first session is without registration and without fees, so you can come just to get an idea!

Below are some very *useful* recommendations before you join!

>>Things you will need to bring with you:

– Your questions about the meaning of the human being, society and the Universe (all of them, make sure you don’t leave any behind!)
– Your problems (if you are willing to learn through them and solve them once and for all. In Philosophy we don’t ‘patch’.).
– Your solutions (if you are ready to question them and to constantly test their coherence).
– Your dreams (if you do not surrender to them but grow with them).
– Your real Identity (not your name, or your phone number, not anything that makes us “part of the system”, but who you truly are).

>>Things you don’t need and that can hinder you:

– What the people think of you and even what the people think in general (you have the right to be different)
– All your comfort zones (Philosophy teaches about extending one’s limits)
– 99% of what you have heard about Philosophy and Philosophers (If many people repeat a lie, does it make it a truth?)
– Any diploma of any kind (Socrates was illiterate but he was a great philosopher, remember that).
– Ready-made answers (be very careful with these).

Course topics:

– Philosophy: redefining Education, fighting ignorance
– Beyond our IDs, names and masks: who we truly are and who is a true citizen?
– Freedom and Responsibility
– Virtue and Happiness
– Defining the Soul
– The mind: our prison and our key OUT of the prison
– Real citizens VS commoners
– Plato’s Ideal City: practical understanding
– And more…

Instruction language: English

Fees:
50 LE per month for Students
100 LE per month for Non-Students

Date: TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM

Location: EL MADRASA – Maadi Branch.

ADDRESS: End of Zahraa el Maadi street to the left, building 9 (Villat el Kasr). Please refer to the map in the photo section for directions.

Please send your inquiries to phi101@elmadrasa.org

or call us on 011 46 310 310