Living

PHILOSOPHY

16 Week Foundation Course | For Philosophy as a Way of Life

Embark on an An Inner Adventure

This practical philosophy course acts as an introduction and foundation towards living life with meaning and awareness. It brings together the thoughts of the most prominent philosophers of the East and West, especially those who left deep marks on humanity. This comparative study of philosophies does not belong to a single thinker or to any particular school, it is a universal human heritage. We seek to promote philosophy as a way of life for building new and better human beings for a new and better world.

Living Philosophy Course (16 weeks foundation course)

The Individual | Know Thy Self - Strengthening Ethics and Values
The Society | To Belong - Improving Human Relationships
The World | The Drop and the Ocean - Building the Future

Bridge to School of Philosophy (8 weeks)

An optional 2nd part to the foundation course

School of Philosophy - Philosophy As A Way Of Life

#LivingPhilosophy

At first the Living Philosophy course drew me in with its shiny course content - a chance to learn from a variety of ancient philosophies in a structured manner... but i stayed for very different reasons!

Kushagra Agarwal

Artist, Course Graduate

The Course Roadmap

THE INDIVIDUAL

Know Thy Self - Strengthening Ethics And Values

Philosophy & the Meaning of Life

Natural Philosophy: Love for Wisdom and The Timeless Human Search
  • Active philosophy: A way of life
  • Being Ethical: Harmonizing thoughts and actions
  • Search for meaning: Developing Human Values

Human Being & the Cosmos

Relationship Between the Great & the Small: Macrocosm & Microcosm
  • Who am I? The Mystery of the Human being
  • Laws of Nature: Theory of Dharma & Karma
  • Discovering latent human potential

The Inner Battle

Teachings from The Bhagavad Gita
  • Recognizing and engaging with the inner conflict
  • Theory of Reincarnation
  • The three Gunas: Rajas - Tamas - Sattva

Mastery of the Mind: Developing Concentration

Mysterious Tibet & The Voice of The Silence
  • An approach to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Ancient Tibetan text: The Voice of the Silence
  • The value of introspection and reflection

A Vehicle of Consciousness

Life & Teachings of Siddharta Gautama, The Buddha
  • The role of crisis in inner development
  • The middle path
  • The Four Noble truths & The Eightfold Path

The Science of Harmony

Wisdom in China: Confucius and his teachings
  • Confucian Doctrine: Order, ethics and politics
  • Ethics as the foundation of social order
  • Order: through the natural pyramidal system.

The Course Roadmap

THE INDIVIDUAL

Know Thy Self - Strengthening Ethics And Values

Philosophy & the Meaning of Life

Natural Philosophy: Love for Wisdom and The Timeless Human Search
  • Active philosophy: A way of life
  • Being Ethical: Harmonizing thoughts and actions
  • Search for meaning: Developing Human Values

Human Being & the Cosmos

Relationship Between the Great & the Small: Macrocosm & Microcosm
  • Who am I? The Mystery of the Human being
  • Laws of Nature: Theory of Dharma & Karma
  • Discovering latent human potential

The Inner Battle

Teachings from The Bhagavad Gita
  • Recognizing and engaging with the inner conflict
  • Theory of Reincarnation
  • The three Gunas: Rajas - Tamas - Sattva

Mastery of the Mind: Developing Concentration

Mysterious Tibet & The Voice of The Silence
  • An approach to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Ancient Tibetan text: The Voice of the Silence
  • The value of introspection and reflection

A Vehicle of Consciousness

Life & Teachings of Siddharta Gautama, The Buddha
  • The role of crisis in inner development
  • The middle path
  • The Four Noble truths & The Eightfold Path

The Science of Harmony

Wisdom in China: Confucius and his teachings
  • Confucian Doctrine: Order, ethics and politics
  • Ethics as the foundation of social order
  • Order: through the natural pyramidal system.
#LivingPhilosophyToMeIs

What i gained was not just the fact that there are practical tools to live better but there was active application. Things didn’t remain in the realm of theory - there was space to truly reflect, apply...

Shruti Chopra

Content Creator, Course Graduate

THE SOCIETY

To Belong - Improving Human Relationships

The Art of Coexistence: Cultivating Harmony in a Diverse World

The Challenge of Living in a Society
  • Problems of the modern world
  • Need for harmonious coexistence
  • To build a new & better world

Awakening the Soul & the Search for Happiness

Lessons from the life and teachings of Plato and Aristotle
  • The Life of Plato
  • Decoding Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Education for Harmonious Integration

A few lessons from Plato's Republic
  • Being a true citizen in a society & State
  • Stages of Education
  • Philosophy: Education of Life

Justice as a Collective Driving Force

Learnings from the Ancient Egyptian Civilization
  • Egyptian Goddess Ma’at as an archetype of Justice
  • The liberation of the soul: Symbolism of the weighing of the heart papyrus
  • Philosophical meaning behind some Egyptian Symbols: Pyramid, Djed, Pharoh

Eclecticism, Universality and Humanity

Lessons from Ancient Rome and the Stoics
  • World Citizen - One Humanity
  • The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
  • Plotinus and the Neoplatonic school

Summary & Open Dialogue

  • Synthesis through a guided dialogue
  • Practical Exercises
  • Volunteering activity

THE SOCIETY

To Belong - Improving Human Relationships

The Art of Coexistence: Cultivating Harmony in a Diverse World

The Challenge of Living in a Society
  • Problems of the modern world
  • Need for harmonious coexistence
  • To build a new & better world

Awakening the Soul & the Search for Happiness

Lessons from the life and teachings of Plato and Aristotle
  • The Life of Plato
  • Decoding Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Education for Harmonious Integration

A few lessons from Plato's Republic
  • Being a true citizen in a society & State
  • Stages of Education
  • Philosophy: Education of Life

Justice as a Collective Driving Force

Learnings from the Ancient Egyptian Civilization
  • Egyptian Goddess Ma’at as an archetype of Justice
  • The liberation of the soul: Symbolism of the weighing of the heart papyrus
  • Philosophical meaning behind some Egyptian Symbols: Pyramid, Djed, Pharoh

Eclecticism, Universality and Humanity

Lessons from Ancient Rome and the Stoics
  • World Citizen - One Humanity
  • The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
  • Plotinus and the Neoplatonic school

Summary & Open Dialogue

  • Synthesis through a guided dialogue
  • Practical Exercises
  • Volunteering activity
Awakening the Soul
The Search for Happiness
Understanding Justice as a Collective Driving Force
#LivingPhilosophy

This course has marked a distinct before and a distinct after in my life, its taught me a different way to connect to life, to see unity in diversity... I have started to discover my true potential as a human being.

Atmika Didwania

Writer, Course Graduate

THE WORLD

Building the Future

Tracing the Evolution of Consciousness

Convergence of History & Mythology
  • What is History?
  • Characteristics of symbols
  • Myths and Reality

The Cyclical Nature of History and Time

Evolution through Historical Rhythms
  • The Yugas: Links in a chain
  • A voyage through the Zodiac Belt
  • The theory of eternal return and historical cycles

Freedom and Destiny

Our Past & Our Future
  • Theory of the Platonic logos and the future history
  • Becoming conscious agents of history.

Spiral closing of the cycle

  • Review of the journey so far
  • Voyage continues: The School of Philosophy

THE WORLD

Building the Future

Tracing the Evolution of Consciousness

Convergence of History & Mythology
  • What is f History?
  • Characteristics of symbols
  • Myths and Reality

The Cyclical Nature of History and Time

Evolution through Historical Rhythms
  • The Yugas: Links in a chain
  • A voyage through the Zodiac Belt
  • The theory of eternal return and historical cycles

Freedom and Destiny

Our Past & Our Future
  • Theory of the Platonic logos and the future history
  • Becoming conscious agents of history.

Spiral closing of the cycle

  • Review of the journey so far
  • Voyage continues: The School of Philosophy
Uncovering Human Destiny

#livingphilosophy

Bridge to School of Philosophy

8 weeks | Optional 2nd part to the Foundation course
What does it mean to be a part of School of philosophy in classical tradition?
How are Philosophy, Culture and Volunteering connected?
Can one live a Philosophical life and balance personal circumstances?
Human Being vs Human Doing!
Legendary school of Pythagoras: different levels within the school of philosophy.
Symbols & their importance
Practical Exercises
Intro classes to the 3 advanced studies subjects that we will start immediately after

We are a school of Philosophy. We promote Culture. We practice Volunteering

School of Philosophy

Philosophy As A Way Of Life

At the heart of the activities of New Acropolis is its School of Philosophy, which we understand as a way of life, i.e. a means of access to spiritual knowledge and to individual and collective realization.

This School of Philosophy has a Program of Studies which is common to all countries and is taught in successive levels. It provides an updated version of the traditional knowledge of East and West, which, in accordance with classical humanism, combines the study of sciences, arts, religions and philosophies in a comparative way.

Advanced Courses offered upon evaluation and successful completion of the Introduction Course + Bridge Course:

A synthesis of the knowledge about psychology held by the ancient and classical civilizations, gathered from the broad spectrum of philosophy. As love of knowledge, philosophy has always been concerned with the knowledge of the human being.

Compendium of subjects revolving around the universe, life and the human being, approached from the traditions of wisdom in East and West, and their implications for the postulates of current science.

Comparative study and analysis of the myths and symbols of religions and civilizations.

An overview of the major schools of moral philosophy of East and West.

A philosophical approach to improving our society.

Our aim is to recover the art of public speaking – effective communication through oral expression.

An in-depth study of philosophical theories throughout history, analyzing their context and influence.

A comparative study of the theological messages of the religions which, in all ages, have raised the consciousness of humanity.

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