Philosophy of the Will Session 2

Here's session 2.

Session 2 Readings

And the class itself: All about John Locke, Tabula Rasa, and the beginning of our discussion of Arthur Schopenhauer.  Enjoy!

Hello everyone!  This past Tuesday we kicked off our "Philosophy of the Will" class at Liberation.  It's a charity class, by donation, and everything goes to support First Book, a literacy charity for disadvantaged kids.  Over the next 8-ish weeks we'll explore the development of a particular idea of "Will", as it appears in the thought of folks like Arthur Schopenhauer, Frederich Nietzsche, Freud, Alfred Adler, and even Aleister Crowley.  Sound crazy enough to be interesting?

We kicked off this past week with a discussion of free will, contrasting selections from the writings of Thomas Aquinas and David Hume.  As I mention in the talk, "free will" isn't really what we're after, but rather the discussion began to reveal some important observations of the nature of the human condition and the Will itself.

Below there is a link to the selected passages we read in class (4 pages), and a video (well, audio really) of the class itself. Don't mind the ugliness of the video, it's my first time posting something like this to Youtube. If you enjoy the class and get something out of it, I encourage you to make a donation to the charity above.

Session 1 Readings

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