Classes for Spring 2017 at Asclepius

The Human Mind..... Society and Madness Asclepius March 28th 
For thousands of years, the human mind has been shrouded in mystery. Elusive in nature, the subject has prompted an intensive study of several puzzling questions about what the mind is, what it's made of, how it works, and how it differs from our brains. With the latest advancements in both our understanding of the brain and the technology we use to look inside it, scientists have vastly improved their understanding of the human mind. Now, more so than at any other point in human history, we can better explain and describe This is a ten week two hour per week course. The cost is £50, For more details ring 01792 480245 or 07592330467

Plato, Trump and fake news Wednesday March 29th 10 am

What we are now calling fake news—misinformation that people fall for—is nothing new. Thousands of years ago, in the Republic, Plato offered up a hellish vision of people who mistake shadows cast on a wall for reality. In the Iliad, the Trojans fell for a fake horse. Shakespeare loved misinformation: in “Twelfth Night,” Viola disguises herself as a man and wins the love of another woman; in “The Tempest,” Caliban mistakes Stephano for a god. And, in recent years, the Nobel committee has awarded several economics prizes to work on “information asymmetry,” “cognitive bias,” and other ways in which the human propensity toward misperception distorts the workings of the world.

Leonard Cohen the Later Years Thursday March 30 th 10 AM

The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was born in 1934. An early writer and guitarist, Cohen began to compose and release folk-rock and pop songs by the mid-1960s. One of his most famous compositions is "Hallelujah," a song released on 1984's Various Positions. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, and he received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2010. Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82. This is a ten week course. It costs £50. For more information ring 01792 480245 or 07592330467
All of the above courses are run both as a 10 week module or/and one or two-day taster workshops. Each course costs £50.

All you need is interest in the subject and a willingness to learn. No formal qualifications are required. Our students range from 18 to 90.