Philosophy Classes in NYC, New York
Philosophy Classes Coming up in New York
Virtual Tarot Basics for Beginners
at Donna Henes, Urban Shaman - Virtual Classroom
Learn the basics about the tarot from Donna Henes, New York City's acclaimed Urban Shaman. This popular spiritual teacher and advisor will show you how to connect with your inner wisdom to do simple readings for yourself and others. Tarot is not about reading the future or telling your fortune. And it is definitely NOT about fate. It, like most...
Learn the basics about the tarot from Donna Henes,...
Saturday Jan 23rd, 1pm - 3pm Eastern Time
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research - Online Online, New York, New York 00000
Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Karl Marx wrote, in the form of a published open letter to Arnold Ruge: "But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly...
Complete Course Title: A Ruthless Criticism of Everything...
Mon, Mar 1
Tue, Mar 2
Monday Mar 1st, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Eastern Time
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Caring for your Newborn Grandchild
at 92nd Street Y - Online Online Classroom, New York, New York 00000
For Grandparents Only A practical, hands on workshop covering all aspects of caring for a newborn, with an emphasis on today's philosophy and techniques. From what's changed since your children were babies to modern ideas of feeding, and sleeping, this is an essential class for any grandparent who'll be spending time with a newborn baby. One...
For Grandparents Only A practical, hands on workshop...
Tue, Mar 16
Tuesday Mar 16th, 10:30am - 12pm Eastern Time
for 2 students
Organic Gardening Basics - Online
This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Explore the philosophy and history of the organic method, the biological principles upon which it is based, and the practical techniques used to implement it. This course will cover a broad number of topics including how to build and maintain soil health, encourage...
Wednesday Feb 10th, 10am - 12pm Eastern Time
The Tyranny of Happy: Contemporary Over-Performance
at Think Olio - Online Online Class, New York, New York 00000
In this Olio, we will explore the manifestations and possible reasons for the repulsion people feel for their suffering peers, and how that repulsion might be connected to the pressure for performance in a narcissistic "burnout society" To the conventional "How are you?", most people would automatically answer the emphatic "GREAT" we...
In this Olio, we will explore the manifestations...
Thursday Jan 21st, 7:30pm - 9pm Eastern Time
Pilates with Core Props
at Every Body Balance - Online Online, Boston, Massachusetts 00000
All classes are changing to Remote Video only for the time being. We'll revisit as the situation improves. A studio pilates class using core training props to assist in obtaining proper body alignment and mechanics or to increase the intensity of the exercise. How can we build strength on an unstable core? How can we increase our speed and...
All classes are changing to Remote Video only for...
8:30am - 9:30am Eastern Time
10:30am - 11:30am Eastern Time
Wednesday Jan 20th, 4pm - 5pm Eastern Time
Pilates with Ball & BOSU
All classes are changing to Remote Video only for the time being. We'll revisit as the situation improves. How can we build strength on an unstable core? How can we increase our speed and agility on an unstable core? The Pilates philosophy focuses on training the mind and body to work together toward the goal of overall fitness. Pilates teaches...
The Migration Course
at Fledgling Writing Workshops - Online Online Class , Online, New York 00000
This course is offered for writers returning or arriving to the Fledgling nest who are ready for a more traditional workshop experience. Mixing the generative experience you know and love with the critical seminar style you might expect from standard workshops, these sessions are split in two. Each writer will be the focus of an hour of discussion...
This course is offered for writers returning or arriving...
Tuesday Mar 2nd, 7pm - 9pm Eastern Time
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Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end goal? Can we deduce general historical patterns from studying the past? Is it naïve to hope and work for a better future? From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, liberal, Marxist, positivist, and post-structuralist thinkers have offered radically different responses to these fundamental...
Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end...
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
There's more than a little irony in the fact that Ludwig Wittgenstein—widely considered to be among the most original and influential philosophers of the 20th century—held that his discipline's "real discovery" was "the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy". In his posthumously published masterpiece, ...
There's more than a little irony in the fact that...
Ancient Chinese Philosophy for a Better Life
What can we do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Ancient Chinese Philosophy provides some inspiring answers. This one-of-a-kind course introduces important Chinese thinkers and explores what we can use from Ancient Chinese Philosophy in our everyday lives to achieve greater awareness, flourishing, and connection to ourselves and others....
What can we do to live in a fuller and more inspiring...
Introduction to Feminist Theory
Introduction to Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body This course will introduce key concepts in feminist theory. Guided by formative thinkers like bell hooks, Judith Butler, Patricia Hill Collins, Audre Lorde, Gayle Rubin, J. Halberstam, and Chandra Mohanty, our focus will be on how feminist thinkers have dramatically redefined concepts...
Introduction to Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality,...
Understanding Loneliness: Literature, Philosophy,Theory
How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears that we are facing a mass epidemic of loneliness—one perhaps exacerbated by virological pandemic of COVID-19. Britain has appointed a Minister of Loneliness to counter rising rates of isolation. Approximately 20-43 percent of American adults over the age of 60 experience "frequent or intense...
How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears...
Angela Davis and Prison Abolitionism
at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Angela Y. Davis' 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, is arguably the foundational text for the intellectual and political work being done by the prison abolitionist movement today. More broadly, Davis' wide-ranging writing and political activism over the past five decades mark her as one of the most important contemporary intellectuals.In...
Angela Y. Davis' 2003 book, Are Prisons...
Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize "with a hammer," to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a moral...
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and...
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