Why this course?

Description

Topics and personalities are to be covered interlinking them to address essay questions.

 

Personalities include:

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk
• Newton, Einstein, Feyerabend, Kant
• Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi
• Buddha, Ambedkar, Rawls 
• Thucydides, Machiavelli, Nietzsche
• Muhammad
• Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Golwalkar  
• J Krishnamurti
• Damasio

 

Topics include:

• Success, risk taking, innovation  
• Creativity, intuition, reality
• Compassion, happiness, greed, power, philanthropy
• Morality, ethics in politics, ideals, moral crisis
• Self-awareness, mindfulness, wisdom, relationship
• Religion, spirituality, mysticism, meditation
• mysticism & science, religion in politics  
• happiness and pleasure
• Justice, History, colonial mentality, Capitalism, Philanthropy
• Materialism, modernism
• Education, gender
• Globalism, terrorism
• Climate, Social media, AI
• Emotions, feelings, consciousness

 

 

Session 1:   Steve Jobs, Neem Karoli Baba [success, risk taking, innovation]

Session  2:  Buddha & J Krishnamurti [religion, spirituality, mysticism, meditation

Session  3:  Bill Gates [capitalism, philanthropy, modernism, materialism]

Session  4:   Socrates [introspection, wisdom, non-conformity, happiness, integrity, ethics, law, morality]

Session 5:   Thucydides [power, justice, IR Theory]

Session 6:   Jesus [compassion]

Session  7:  Nietzsche [power, moral systems]

Session 8:   Elon Musk  [vision, risk taking, social media]

Session  9:  Damasio  [emotions, self, consciousness, mysticism, AI]

Session 10: Machiavelli [power, ends& means, morality]

Session 11: Muhammad  ( religion & politics)

Session 12: Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Golwalkar (secularism, visions of India)  

Session 13: Newton, Eistein, Kant, Feyerabend (science, scientific method, reality)