NEWSLETTER
FOUNDATION
COURSE IN THE
PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY 2025-2027
Registration
Open
Course Objectives
The purpose of the two-year course is to provide an introduction to
the universal tradition that is our spiritual heritage, through direct
engagement with key texts of both the West and the East. It offers an
opportunity to study works of philosophy, poetry, and mysticism that
have shaped and nourished civilization. By exploring perennial teachings,
which for centuries have renewed and sustained our culture, it offers
a vital counterbalance to prevailing assumptions and values. The expertise
of the tutors is devoted to providing the most direct encounter possible
with the teachings themselves, which, springing from the love of wisdom
and the quest for truth, open up infinite riches for study and contemplation.
It is hoped that students will learn
from, and not merely about,
some of the profoundest thinkers the world has known.
Part
One: The Western Tradition: Oct 2025 – June 2026
Students will be introduced to seminal texts of metaphysics, the visionary
imagination and mysticism in the Western tradition. These formative
works of the West include readings from the
Dialogues of Plato,
the
Enneads of Plotinus, the poetic vision of Dante’s Divine
Comedy
, the Christian mystical writings of Meister Eckhart, and
the theology of love in St Bernard of Clairvaux’s
On Loving
God
.
Part
Two: Eastern Traditions: October 2026 - June 2027
Students will be introduced to textual sources of the perennial philosophy
in three major Eastern traditions: Hinduism, Taoism and Islamic Mysticism.
Through selected guided reading of the
The Bhagavad Gita and
the
Upanishads; the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu and
the
Huai Nan Tzu; and ’Attar’s The Conference of
the Birds, as well as short excerpts from the great Islamic scholar
and mystic Ibn ’Arabi. Part Two will ground students in the wisdom
traditions of the East.
Tuition
Study of the modules will take place over six terms, with weekly seminars
led by the module tutor on Tuesday evenings between 6.45pm and 8.45pm.
Students will be expected to read approximately thirty or forty pages
of text each week. Tuition will be conducted by lectures and guided
discussions on the content of the previous week’s reading.
Accreditation
In order to receive a Certificate of Completion students will be required
to write one essay of approximately 2000 words for each module and to
attend a minimum of 80% of classes. Students who successfully complete
both Part One and Part Two, and fulfil these criteria, will be eligible
for a Temenos Academy Foundation Course Diploma. However, students may
also attend the classes and not write an essay and therefore not receive
the Certificate or Diploma.
NB The Temenos Academy awards its own beautifully designed and hand-inscribed
Diplomas – the Academy is not accredited by any other institution.
Venue
The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT.
Nearest Underground Russell Square or Holborn
Cost
The course fee is £1600 for two years (Part One and Part Two).
A non-refundable deposit of £400 will be required by 30 April
2025 in order to secure your place, the remainder (£1200) payable
by 31 July 2025.
Separate Parts (Part One or Part Two) and individual modules will only
be offered if spaces are available, at £900 per Part or £400
per module.
Enrolment
To enrol please send an e-mail with the subject heading ‘Foundation
Course 2025-2027’ to
temenos...@myfastmail.com
On receipt of your payment, the curriculum will be sent to you.
Your enrolment includes an annual membership of the Temenos Academy,
you will be sent the Temenos Academy Review, other publications as issued,
and the programme of public lectures and seminars for that year.
For
further information visit:
https://www.temenosacademy.org/foundation-course/
BEING HUMAN IN A DIVINE UNIVERSE
27-29 June 2025
Our
friends at the Prometheus Trust will be holding their 17th annual conference
this summer in Warwickshire, UK. Please see the call for papers below.
The
Platonic tradition’s primary point of focus, in common with other
world religions and philosophies, is the question of how humans should
live. The frame in which it sees this life lived is within a divine
universe – a cosmos that is, in the words of the
Timaeus,
“a happy God.” What should be our intelligent response to
this greater frame? This conference is an opportunity to consider a
whole range of issues in this context – be they concerned with
the inner world of the human soul, or the outer relations we individually
and collectively form with the rest of the cosmos, and its divine source.
This conference invites submissions of papers addressing such matters,
from both academics and non-academics, from within specialist areas
and from more general perspectives.
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be sent to confe...@prometheustrust.co.uk
by Monday 7 April 2025.
Papers should be around 2500-3000 words or 20 minutes (to be followed
by a 15-20 min Q&A session).
Keynote lecture - Danielle A. Layne, Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga
University, USA:
‘The Khôratic Eroticism of the Platonic
Tradition’
Thomas Taylor Lecture - Jan Opsomer, Professor for Ancient Philosophy,
KU Leuven:
‘Where all powers meet: the human soul and the gods
according to Proclus’
More
details on
www.prometheustrust.co.uk
For a booking form, please email in...@prometheustrust.co.uk
THE ARCHIVE
Our website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures,
digital versions of all thirteen issues of the journal
TEMENOS,
and the texts of seventy articles from
Temenos Academy Review.
New material is added regularly.
https://temenosacademy.org/main-lecture-archive
https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-journal-archive
https://temenosacademy.org/temenos-academy-review-archive
Many
of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS.
PAYPAL GIVING FUND UK
The Temenos Academy is registered with PayPal Giving Fund UK. When using
PayPal if you choose you may also make a donation in support of the
Temenos Academy. Thank you
FURTHER INFORMATION
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