Term 4 discussion topics
| Class | Dates | Discussion Topics |
| 1 | 9/10/24 | John Rawls - Helen took the class |
| 2 | 16/10/24 | Isaiah Berlin - Two Concepts of Liberty |
| 3 | 23/10/24 | Some questions on the two concepts of liberty |
| 4 | 30/10/24 | Value Pluralism |
| 5 | 6/11/24 | US election news / Value pluralism (cont.) |
| 6 | 13/11/24 | TBD (US news / Some terminology of meta ethics / Liberalism?) |
| 7 | 20/11/24 | Lunch at Blackburn Hotel |
U3A Nunawading Term Dates 2025
| Term | Start | End |
| Term 4, 2024 (7 wks) | 07 Oct 2024 | 22 Nov 2024 |
| Summer School 2025 - Hub classes | 20 Jan 2025 | 24 Jan 2025 |
| Summer School 2025 - excursions | 28 Jan 2025 | 31 Jan 2025 |
| Term 1, 2025 (9 weeks) | 03 Feb 2025 | 04 Apr 2025 |
| Term 2, 2025 (10 weeks) | 22 Apr 2025 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| Term 3, 2025 (9 weeks) | 21 Jul 2025 | 19 Sep 2025 |
| Term 4, 2025 (7 weeks) | 06 Oct 2025 | 21 Nov 2025 |
Public Holidays for 2025
| Holiday | Date in 2025 |
| New Year's Day | Monday 1 January |
| Australia Day | Sunday 27 January2002 |
| Labour Day | Sunday 10 March |
| Good Friday1 | Thursday 18 April |
| Saturday before Easter Sunday | Friday 19 April |
| Easter Sunday | Saturday 20 April |
| Easter Monday | Sunday 21 April |
| ANZAC Day1 | Thursday 25 April |
| King's Birthday | Sunday 9 June |
| Friday before the AFL Grand Final | Subject to AFL schedule3 |
| Melbourne Cup | Thursday 4 November2004 |
| Christmas Day1 | Wednesday 25 December |
| Boxing Day | Thursday 26 December |
Public holiday dates are based on the following website information on 23/10/24.
1 ANZAC Day, Good Friday and Christmas Day are restricted trading days.
2 As Australia Day falls on a Sunday, the public holiday is on the following Monday.
3 Friday before AFL Grand Final typically falls on the last Friday in September. This website will be updated with the exact date upon release of the 2025 AFL schedule.
4 Melbourne Cup Day is a public holiday across all of Victoria unless alternate local holiday has been arranged by a non-metro council.
- Ethics
- Normative Ethics - Deontology
- Normative Ethics - Virtue Ethics
- Daodejing
- Chan/Zen Buddhism
- Is beauty good?
- Shame (suggested by John)
- AI
- Mencius (Mengzi) Virtue theory (includes a discussion on Shame)
- Meta - ethics
- Punishment (see Wifi Philosophy on Youtube)
- Happiness (see Wifi Philosophy on Youtube)
- History of philosophy (see PPPD blog)
- Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun (refer to ABC Philosophers' Zone)
- Articles or podcasts from ABC Philosophers' Zone
- Introduction to Ethics - (see Wifi Philosophy)
- Moral Education in Confucianism (see Philosophy Now magazine)
- Other articles from Philosophy Now magazine
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Year 2024
Term 1 started on Wednesday 7th February 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Meeting Room 5 at the Hub.
Term 1 discussion topics
| Class | Dates | Discussion Topics |
| 1 | 7/2/2024 | What is Philosophy? |
| 2 | 14/2/2024 | What is Philosophy? Prof. Kaplan |
| 3 | 21/2/2024 | What is Philosophy? Karl Jaspers |
| 4 | 28/2/2024 | What is Philosophy? Karl Jaspers |
| 5 | 6/3/2024 | Sources Philosophy, K Jaspers |
| 6 | 13/3/2024 | The Comprehensive, K Jaspers |
| 7 | 20/3/2024 | Aristotle's Ethics (Helen to take class) |
| 8 | 27/3/2024
| Peter Singer (Helen to take class) |
Term 2 discussion topics
| Class | Dates | Discussion Topics |
| 1 | 17/4/24 | Critical Thinking |
| 2 | 24/4/24 | Predicament of Existence |
| 3 | 1/5/24 | Myth we need to survive - Yuval Noah Harari |
| 4 | 8/5/24 | Myth we need to survive - Yuval Noah Harari (cont.) |
| 5 | 15/5/24 | Critical Thinking (cont.) |
| 6 | 22/5/24 | Critical Thinking and Schrödinger's Cat |
| 7 | 29/5/24 | Schrödinger's Cat and Double Slit Experiment |
| 8 | 5/6/24 | Schrödinger's Cat and Critical Thinking |
| 9 | 12/6/24 | Critical Thinking |
| 10 | 19/6/24 | Smell the glove is here |
Term 3 discussion topics
| Class | Dates | Discussion Topics |
| 1 | 17/7/24 | Socrates |
| 2 | 24/7/24 | Socratic method |
| 3 | 31/7/24 | Plato's dialogue - Euthyphro |
| 4 | 7/8/24 | Plato's dialogue - Euthyphro |
| 5 | 14/8/24 | Plato's dialogue - Euthyphro |
| 6 | 21/8/24 | Euthyphro Dilemma |
| 7 | 28/8/24 | Euthyphro Dilemma / Introduction to Ethics |
| 8 | 4/9/24 | Free will and determinism |
| 9 | 11/9/24 | Free will and determinism / Normative Ethics - Consequentialism |
| 10 | 18/9/24 | Lunch and chat at Canteen
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