Introductory Course
Membership in New Acropolis entitles you to enroll in a program of studies which is taught in successive levels in all our schools around the world. It presents an updated version of traditional knowledge, and is a holistic form of education which, like classical humanism, links Sciences, Arts, Religions and Philosophies in a comparative manner and attempts to discover, through research, the laws governing Nature and the Human Being.
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| Timeless and Universal Philosophy |
Philosophy: Love of wisdom; the value of philosophy for science, politics, religion and art; what is the nature of human beings; the seven principles in Nature and in Man; Macrocosm and Microcosm
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| Philosophy of India |
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The Bhagavad Gita: The inner battle we all have; the teachings of karma, dharma, three gunas and reincarnation; the Philosophy of Yoga and the art of Right Action
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| The Teachings of Plato |
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Philosophy in Ancient Greece; the art of politics; meaning of the Archetypes; the teaching of music and gymnastics; the Allegory of the Cave
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| Tibetan Wisdom |
The Voice of Silence: Three stages on the inward journey: ignorance, learning and wisdom; illusion and reality.; the training of mind
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| Aristotle |
The nature of Happiness and Goodness; to be an apprentice of Virtues; Metaphysics and Levels of Knowledge; Freedom and Slavery
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| Socio-politics |
The Individual, Society and the State; the problems of modern societies; the concept of Justice |
| Wisdom of Rome |
The Stoic School; practical teachings of Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius; harmony with Nature; things within our control and things that are outside our control |
| Buddhism |
The life of Buddha; the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path; is liberation from pain and suffering possible; parables from the Dhammapada |
| Plotinus |
The Philosophical School of Alexandria; the nature of the Soul; Organization and contemplation; why do we fall in love? the dialectic method |
| Philosophy of History |
History: the teacher of Life; Man and Nature and their cycles and rhythms; History and Myth; the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
| Exercises in Practical Psychology |
Consciousness, attention, memory, imagination, habits, sensations... |
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