Lessons
- 01
What Is the Point of Learning?
Why learning is more than job preparation: an education of attention, judgment, freedom, and service.
- 02
How to Think: What Is Philosophy?
An introduction to philosophical thinking and the major questions of logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.
- 03
How to Become an Autodidact
A practical method for building a serious self-education from free resources, deliberate practice, and a community of correction.
- 04
Paradigms, Worldviews, and Systems
How interpretive frameworks shape what we notice—and how comparison, coherence, and humility can make judgment more responsible.
- 05
How to Read
A practice of sustained attention: building stamina, reading arguments closely, and making protected time for difficult books.
- 06
The Importance of Being Bilingual
Why learning another language—and learning to translate between intellectual communities—enlarges thought, empathy, and access to sources.
- 07
The Necessity of Humility and Charity
An introduction to virtue epistemology: why becoming a trustworthy knower requires intellectual humility, courage, honesty, and charity.
- 08
The Mission of Roberts Academy
Why this academy exists, who B. H. Roberts was, and how to carry the habits of this course into everything that follows.