Examine philosophy’s enduring engagement with art, from Plato and Aristotle to Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and Postmodernism. Explore how art shapes emotion, society and imagination, and its power to critique, transform and redefine human life.

Delve into Heidegger’s radical ideas on existence, time, language, technology and truth. Through Being and Time, examine how his phenomenology reshapes our understanding of self, others and the modern world—and what it means to truly live.

Explore the meaning and power of music through a philosophical lens. This course examines music's emotional, cultural and political significance, from the Ancient Greeks to opera, jazz, pop and film music in the modern age.

Explore Aristotle’s philosophy across ethics, politics, science, drama and rhetoric in this ten-week course. Compare his ideas with Confucian social humanism and Persian Manichaeism, and consider their relevance to contemporary life and society.

Study Machiavelli’s philosophy with a short course in Sydney and online. Explore The Prince, human nature, power, free will, love, politics and the role of deception, violence and ethics in modern society.

Explore religion through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, sociology and political theory. Discuss spirituality, science, religious experience and the paradox of violence—examining how belief shapes lives, cultures and human understanding.