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Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Examined Life

Université d'Édimbourg

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According to legend, inscribed on walls of the temple on the sacred site of Delphi in Ancient Greece were two premier injunctions: NOTHING IN EXCESS, and KNOW THYSELF. This course will be an examination of the latter injunction in an effort to discover what self-knowledge is, why it might be valuable, and what, if any, limitations it might face. What is missing from a person lacking in self-knowledge that makes her less wise, virtuous, or competent in certain areas than others who have this capacity, and what if anything might she do to fill that gap?  Historical sources as well as recent research in philosophy, experimental social psychology, and neuroscience will inform our investigation, in the course of which we will become students of our own dreams, and cultivate some meditative practices.
Learning Outcomes: 
Learners will gain familiarity with prominent themes from Western, classical Chinese, and Buddhist approaches to our knowledge of ourselves. In the course of doing so, they will gain an appreciation of the relation of self-knowledge to wisdom, of the value of intellectual humility, as well as of methods of learning about oneself that do not depend on introspection. 

Learners will also become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience into the emotions, the unconscious, the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception. They will also gain an appreciation of a challenge to the assumption of a coherent, unified self that derives from the Buddhist tradition.

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This course was created by a partnership between The University of Edinburgh and Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project  based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

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University of Edinburgh

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Semaine

Semaine 1

26 minutes pour terminer

Getting started

26 minutes pour terminer

4 lectures

3 heures pour terminer

Socrates and the Examined Life

At his trial, charged with corrupting the Athenian youth, Socrates isn't exactly apologetic. He tells the jury to their faces that they only charged him because they don't like that he forces them to confront uncomfortable truths. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the jury sentences him to death. Socrates accepts the sentence unfazed, famously stating that he'd rather die than stop making people think, as 'an unexamined life is not worth living'. In this module we will examine this dictum and ask: was Socrates right to throw shade on the unexamimed life?

3 heures pour terminer

8 vidéos (Total 48 min), 6 lectures, 7 quiz

8 vidéos

The Gadfly4 min

Is anyone wiser than Socrates?4 min

I know that I know (almost) nothing6 min

Meditative moment3 min

Is an unexamined life worth living?5 min

"Not to be lived"10 min

What is knowledge good for?8 min

Summary2 min

6 lectures

Existentialist Comics - The "Apology"10 min

Know Thyself, Chapter One10 min

Interesting videos and podcasts10 min

Plato's Apology - full text10 min

'Socrates' by Professor Deborah Nails10 min

'The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory' By Spiller et al10 min

7 exercices pour s'entraîner

Initial thoughts

Practice Quiz 1: The Oracle

Practice Quiz 2: knowledge, wisdom and ignorance

Knowledge and ignorance15 min

Do you agree?5 min

Module One Quiz: 5 questions assessed10 min

Chapter One Quiz10 min

Semaine

Semaine 2

4 heures pour terminer

Descartes' Essence

Are you dreaming right now? How do you know you're not? Rene Descartes set himself a pretty titanic task: to doubt absolutely everything he cannot be certain of - even that the world exists! - and then try to see if we can rebuild our knowledge of ourselves and the world only from what we can be really certain of. In the process, he formulated some provocative thoughts on the radical separation of the mind from the body.

4 heures pour terminer

9 vidéos (Total 66 min), 7 lectures, 6 quiz

9 vidéos

Descartes11 min

What can be called into doubt?9 min

Are you dreaming now?7 min

I think, therefore I am8 min

Concerning God9 min

The physical and the mental6 min

Divisibility of mind and body4 min

Meditative moment2 min

Dualism5 min

7 lectures

Know Thyself, Chapter Two10 min

Interesting videos and podcasts10 min

Brief essay on Descartes' argument for dualism10 min

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy10 min

Correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth10 min

Prof. Christia Mercer on Descartes' debt to Teresa of Avila10 min

Rationalism vs Empiricism10 min

6 exercices pour s'entraîner

Initial thoughts5 min

Practice Quiz 12 min

Practice Quiz 22 min

Evaluate Descartes' argument10 min

Evaluate the arguments again10 min

Module Two Quiz: 5 questions assessed10 min

Semaine

Semaine 3

4 heures pour terminer

A re-casting of the Mind/Body problem

Descartes' dualistic picture of the mind-body relation was highly influential for centuries. A vocal minority of thinkers challenged dualism, but only in the Twentieth Century did Gilbert Ryle manage to discern how Descartes' dualistic reasoning went wrong. In understanding Ryle's approach, we will also gain an appreciation of how know-how is a legitimate form of knowledge, and of how one way of gaining self-knowledge is by looking outward rather than looking inward.

4 heures pour terminer

8 vidéos (Total 61 min), 7 lectures, 5 quiz

8 vidéos

Concept of mind8 min

Ghost in the machine8 min

Stupid is, as stupid does9 min

Embodied cognition11 min

Priviledged access8 min

Locked in3 min

The materialist strikes back6 min

Meditative moment3 min

7 lectures

Know Thyself, chapter three10 min

Interesting videos and podcasts10 min

On embodied cognition10 min

Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

Gilbert Ryle at the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy10 min

Locked-In Syndrome10 min

Another MOOC: more about embodied cognition

5 exercices pour s'entraîner

Initial thoughts5 min

Practice quiz2 min

More know-how intelligence30 min

Examples of failed phosphorescence or introspection/infallibility15 min

Module Three Quiz: 5 questions assessed10 min

Semaine

Semaine 4

5 heures pour terminer

MIND AND SELF: Some Aspects of Human Nature

5 heures pour terminer

7 vidéos (Total 50 min), 8 lectures, 5 quiz

7 vidéos

Human nature6 min

Investigating human nature7 min

How best to live?8 min

Theory of human emotions8 min

Non-basic emotions7 min

Second nature8 min

Meditative moment2 min

8 lectures

Existentialist Comics - Sartre10 min

Human nature: Six things we all do (New Scientist)20 min

Human nature matters (Aeon)20 min

Some interesting videos and podcasts30 min

Read more about Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)10 min

Read more about Sartre, Existentialism, and Nothingness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)10 min

Steve Darwall: Empathy, Sympathy, Care10 min

Final assessment

2 heures pour terminer

4 lectures

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par DB23 juin 2020

This is a well put together course. It is beneficial to borrow or purchase the course textbook. I enjoyed the course instructor and his use of meditation breaks every so often was great.

par PD6 juil. 2020

A really good course about different philosophical ideas from several philosophers about the examination of life. The teaching technique is really good and easy to understand.

par AR17 juil. 2020

Very interesting course and very inspirational.

The Tutor is very serious, charming and convincing, even inspiring.

I can only recommend.

par PC15 juil. 2022

I laerned a lot from this course. It was my first ofrray into philosophy and it was indeed a challenge. Nevertheless I am glad I went through it.

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