The Global Philosophies and Worldviews course explores big questions of truth, value and what it means to be human in a world-spanning perspective. From African philosophy to Chinese ideas of ethics and the good life; from Hindu explorations of the soul to Islamic political thought; from Jewish existentialism to Buddhist mysticism: these are the traditions that continue to evolve and shape the modern world.

You will journey beyond the limits of European and Western-centred ways of thought. You will learn to study and assess radically different ways of thinking with sensitivity, care and intellectual rigour. A key question will be whether truth is one or many. Are there grounds for shaping a universal ethic and common standards of truth – or are such global ideals always colonial and destructive of differences?