Philosophy

• Intro – The relevance of philosophy in today’s complex world
• Metaphysics – the fundamental nature of reality
• The Poets and the Ancients
• Secular philosophy was driven into exile
• How cool is Spinoza
• Christianity, democracy and human rights.
• Hegel – providing an interesting way forwards for humanity
  • Religion and Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant believes mankind will make it
• Grumpy Friedrich Nietzsche – one of the most radical philosophers
• Political  Philosophy
  • Outsourcing our mind to populists can easily lead to totalitarianism.
  • Politics is the organisation of human power for a social aim.
  • Peak Democracy
  • Common Law, Roman Law and Negative and Positive Rules
  • On Stupidity
  • We need a new ‘ideology’.
• Existentialism
• Phenomenology and Free Will
• Consciousness and quantum biology
• What is time?
• The Computational Universe – Stephen Wolfram suggest a different approach to science
• Trans humanism, Post humanism, AI
• Belief systems, history, and philosophical thoughts
  • Introduction
  • Early belief systems
  • The emergence of formalised belief systems
  • Monotheism
  • Mixing culture and spirituality
  • Spirituality hijacked by the vested interests
  • Religious battles
  • The future of religion
  • Separating culture and religion
  • Nature as God
• Is information a fundamental part nature?