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May 31 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterAny discussion of Existentialism begins with Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Weary to his bones of the pointless and ineffectual... read more -
May 15 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAlgerian-born philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960) firmly rejected the label “existentialist” his whole life. Nevertheless, his work stands as its most... read more -
July 31 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterAlgerian-born philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960) firmly rejected the label “existentialist” his whole life. Nevertheless, his work stands as its most... read more
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July 26 Tuesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: In-Person or Online | Lifelong Learning CenterThe most important pupil to emerge from Plato’s Academy in Athens, Aristotle (384-322 BCE) would end up challenging Plato’s core... read more -
August 25 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterThe most important pupil to emerge from Plato’s Academy in Athens, Aristotle (384-322 BCE) would end up challenging Plato’s core... read more
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August 7 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterThe most important pupil to emerge from Plato’s Academy in Athens, Aristotle (384-322 BCE) would end up challenging Plato’s core... read more
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October 20 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterAugustine (354-430) lay on his death bed as the Vandals lay siege to his town of Hippo in Roman North... read more
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March 26 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAugustine (354-430) lay on his death bed as the Vandals lay siege to his town of Hippo in Roman North... read more
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September 27 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterNo two names are more associated with the influential ethical theory of Utilitarianism that Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and his protégé... read more
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May 10 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterNo two names are more associated with the influential ethical theory of Utilitarianism that Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and his protégé... read more
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July 19 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAnother of the British Empiricists, Scottish philosopher David Hume took Locke’s work to its logical conclusion, and shocked the philosophical... read more
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March 8 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterAnother of the British Empiricists, Scottish philosopher David Hume took Locke’s work to its logical conclusion, and shocked the philosophical... read more
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August 12 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAnother of the British Empiricists, Scottish philosopher David Hume took Locke’s work to its logical conclusion, and shocked the philosophical... read more
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August 9 Tuesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Online OnlyIn the first century a Roman slave named Epictetus earned his freedom. Literate, well-read, and lame from torture, Epictetus rose... read more -
September 1 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterIn the first century a Roman slave named Epictetus earned his freedom. Literate, well-read, and lame from torture, Epictetus rose... read more
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January 29 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterIn the first century a Roman slave named Epictetus earned his freedom. Literate, well-read, and lame from torture, Epictetus rose... read more
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August 16 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterImmanuel Kant (1724-1804) took it upon himself to repair the rift between rationalism and empiricism in startling ways, and ever... read more
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April 12 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterImmanuel Kant (1724-1804) took it upon himself to repair the rift between rationalism and empiricism in startling ways, and ever... read more
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April 3 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAt the center of the philosophy of existentialism is the work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and his lifelong companion Simone... read more
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June 28 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterPreeminent among the British Empiricists, John Locke (1632-1704) offered a bracing alternative to the earlier rationalist philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz,... read more
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February 9 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterPreeminent among the British Empiricists, John Locke (1632-1704) offered a bracing alternative to the earlier rationalist philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz,... read more
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January 24 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterWhile for some “Marxist” is a dirty word, we would be hard-pressed to find a more impactful philosopher than Karl... read more
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November 29 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterAny discussion of Existentialism begins with Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Weary to his bones of the pointless and ineffectual... read more
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September 29 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Rancho Bernardo Lifelong Learning CenterWhen he wrote about his career challenges, the perils of fame, and the fleeting pleasures of life, Marcus Aurelius knew... read more
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February 26 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterWhen he wrote about his career challenges, the perils of fame, and the fleeting pleasures of life, Marcus Aurelius knew... read more
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February 21 Wednesday10:00 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Grossmont Lifelong Learning CenterOne of the most compelling figures in all of philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ushers in the modern world by shattering... read more
