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According to legend, inscribed on the temple walls at the sacred site of Delphi in ancient Greece were two main commandments: NOTHING TOO MUCH and KNOW THYSELF.
This course will be a last term examination in an effort to discover what self-knowledge is, why it might be valuable, and what limitations, if any, it might face.
What is missing in a person who lacks self-knowledge that makes them less wise, virtuous, or competent in certain areas than others who have this ability, and what could they do to fill that gap? Historical sources as well as recent research in philosophy, experimental social psychology, and neuroscience will inform our research, in the course of which we will become students of our own dreams and cultivate some meditative practices.
Learning Outcomes: Students will become familiar with salient themes from Western, Classical Chinese, and Buddhist approaches to our self-knowledge.
In doing so, they will gain an appreciation of the relationship of self-knowledge to wisdom, the value of intellectual humility, as well as methods of learning about oneself that do not rely on introspection.
Students will also become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience on emotions, the unconscious, the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception.
They will also gain an appreciation for a challenge to the assumption of a coherent and unified self that stems from the Buddhist tradition.
--- This course was created by a partnership between the University of Edinburgh and Humility &
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