Ancient Philosophy course online – the Idler

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• April 16, 2014 at 12:43 pm #82833
  jondwhite

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  Dear Idlers of the World,

   

  Without wanting to sound too much like Barack Obama, today, my friends, is an historic day.

   

  For today is the day when the Idler Academy's dream of a classical liberal education for all comes closer to reality. Today we launch our first ever online course, "An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy".

   

  And we're offering it to our newsletter subscribers at a 50% discount, when you order it within the next 24 hours. Read on and find out how to take up this offer.

   

  Walt Whitman wrote of the ideal of "higher progress" in America. He, and the founding fathers before him, had dreamt of a life where every citizen had ample leisure time to study, philosophize, reflect and play.

   

  In its early days, the Internet appeared to offer a new version of this democratic dream. But it was soon monopolized by a few big ad-sales companies, and is now a mere repository of amusing video clips, witless tweetings and pictures of cats.

   

  Now it is takeback time.

   

  We at the Idler Academy are leading the takeback with our brilliant six-part course on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks with Dr Mark Vernon. Since we opened the doors of our real-life school in March 2011, Dr Vernon's course has been consistently sold out. Hundreds of pupils have benefited from Mark's knowledge and wisdom, and now we bring the course to a wider audience.

   

  Dr Vernon's course will teach you the rudiments of the early days of philosophy, when titans like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle developed new ideas about the good life, and when the Epicurean, Stoic, Cynic and Sceptic schools were founded.

   

  The philosophies developed in Athens over two millennia ago are strikingly relevant — and useful — today.

   

  The course was filmed with three cameras and proper sound and lighting in the Idler Academy. When you purchase the course, you receive six 20-30 minute video lessons and a sheaf of useful notes in pdf form, and you can access our "comments" forum and philosophize with others all over the world.

   

  The cost of the course is a mere £30. To say thanks for joining our mailing list, we are giving you a 50% discount if you purchase the course before the end of Thursday 17 April (BST). So that's just £15 for a world of classical learning.

   

  To take up your half price offer, just CLICK HERE and type in the code "knowthyself" at checkout stage.

   

  We hope you will give it a go. Please send any comments to me at this email address.

   

  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND VIEW THE TRAILER.

   

  Vale!

   

  Tom Hodgkinson
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