ReasonIO Academy Philosophy Classes

We’ve now developed an online academy for students who would like to learn at their own pace, using the Teachable platform.  Each of these courses provides students with an online, at-your-own-pace learning environment that includes lecture videos, quizzes to test your understanding, downloadable handouts and worksheets, detailed lesson pages, discussion forums and reflection questions, and curated links to other online resources on the topics, texts, and thinkers.

Epictetus’ Enchiridion: Ancient Philosophy & Peace of MindFREE – includes 22 lecture videos, 16 downloadable handouts and worksheets, 7 quizzes, and other resources.  This is a classic work of Stoic philosophy, one of the essential texts for anyone who wants to understand Stoicism and apply it to their own life.

Philosophical World Views and Values: Nine Key Perspectives – $75.00 – includes 52 lecture videos, 27 downloadable handouts, 40 lesson pages, and 9 quizzes.  The same online course I developed and taught for incoming students at a highly-rated college, introducing them to key issues in philosophy by having them engage authors such as Plato, Epictetus, Boethius, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, and Martin Luther King.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics books 1-5: Happiness and the Virtues – $99.00 – The first part of a systematic and focused study of this absolutely central work in moral theory.  In this course we examine Aristotle’s conception of human nature, happiness, moral evaluation, habit-formation, choice and responsibility, and his analyses of the virtues and vices.  Includes 45 lecture videos, 23 downloadable handouts and worksheets, 21 lesson pages, 5 quizzes, and other useful resources.  Purchase this course bundled with the course below and save $29.00.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics books 6-10: Virtues, Self-Control, Friendship, and Pleasure – $99 – The second part of our systematic examination of this rich and influential text in moral theory.  We continue on into Aristotle’s virtue ethics, focusing on his treatments of the intellectual virtues, self-control and moral responsibility, friendship and other relationships, pleasure and pain, and the role of education in ethics.   Includes 49 lecture videos, 22 downloadable handouts and worksheets, 18 lesson pages, 5 quizzes, and other useful resources.  Purchase this course bundled with the course above and save $29.00.

Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (eventually) – $175.00 – provides access to all of the videos (0ver 150 now!) in the Half Hour Hegel series, curated and ordered, as well as a number of other useful Hegel’s Phenomomenology-related resources.  Enrollment is FREE as a perk for Patreon supporters of the project

 

Coming Soon In 2017:

 

Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo – Socrates’ Last Days

Plato’s Symposium – The Great Dialogue on Love

Aristotle’s Categories – An Introduction To Aristotelian Concepts

Epictetus’s Discourses – Stoic Philosophy From The Master

Anselm of Canterbury’s Monologion and Proslogion – Meditations and Arguments

Rene Descartes’ Meditations – A New Beginning In Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, books 1-2 – The State of War and the Social Contract

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy – The Dionysian, Apollonian, and Socratic