Self-understanding
Perceive your own experiences, needs and questions about life more consciously and place them in wider contexts.
Philosophical online course · 12 chapters
Online course
Anthropology – What Is the Human Being?
A guided path of thought from home to the stars. Images open up wonder, texts open up thought, music opens up flow, and your own notes shape your personal journey.
Begin by discovering what awaits you. You will find the booking options at the end of this page.
What the course explores
Exploring the human condition in its wider contexts
Twelve chapters guide you through fundamental dimensions of human existence: from home, security and pleasure through the body and work to self-knowledge, wholeness and the cosmos. You set your own pace and can give each chapter time to resonate.
The course presents the Anthropology book in a digital, interactive form. Images, texts, music, questions, reading suggestions and search terms come together as a coherent learning journey. You can export your personal notes at the end.
What you gain
Understand yourself, others and what we share more deeply
Our shared humanity
Discover what connects people across periods, cultures and ways of life.
Intercultural perspective
Perceive differences more precisely without losing sight of what connects us.
Conscious action
Record what you personally want to adopt, explore more deeply or change in your life.
A sample chapter
Home
The chapter begins with an image and the question of what gives home its sustaining power. Specially composed music can accompany this first approach if you wish.
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Wonder
Image and music first create an open space for resonance.
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Inspiration
A guiding quotation, portrait and philosophical impulse open up the theme.
- 03
Integration
Questions, a learning objective, further exploration and a final note connect what you have read with your own life.
From home to the cosmos
The twelve chapters
- 01 Home Explore Hebel’s metaphor of taking root and flourishing, and how it relates to home.
- 02 Security Understand the Christian interpretation of security and freedom in the chapter on Psalm 62.
- 03 Pleasure Explore Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean through the example of pleasure.
- 04 Body Understand Lenz’s connection between the body, proportion and cosmic order.
- 05 Work Compare the Benedictine order of work with the three conditions for flow.
- 06 The Unity of All Being Understand the chapter’s account of the unity of all being and its relationship to mysticism.
- 07 Authenticity Relate Kierkegaard’s account of the self to the chapter’s concept of authenticity.
- 08 Self-Knowledge Explore the Delphic maxim and the paths to self-knowledge presented in the chapter.
- 09 Dream Understand Jung’s account of the compensatory function of dreams.
- 10 Intuition Explore the chapter’s concept of intuition and the examples used to illustrate it.
- 11 Wholeness Understand Plato’s account of the relationship between part and whole and its connection to systems thinking.
- 12 Cosmos Explore the relationship between humanity, nature and creation in the Canticle of the Sun.
Your personal learning journey
What the course offers you
At your own pace
You decide when and at what pace to work through the twelve chapters.
Music as an invitation
The music can play on a loop, accompanying both wonder and personal reflection.
Further exploration
Reading suggestions and copyable search terms support your own further research.
Your own notes
Your thoughts are saved in your browser and can be exported as a text file at the end.
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What is this course worth to you?
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