How come I can?t do a short course in Philosophy through the post or web?
I?ve been looking everywhere and it seems you have to study at university for a degree to be able to be taught anything about it. I don?t want to use it for anything, I just want to study it for interest?s sake. I?ll do it even if it means nothing on paper.
Why? Crude providence!
Suggestion by Ardi Pithecus ?
You can do philosophy courses and get your degree on the internet. But it isn?t a ?short course?. It is the same course you get in a university, because in order to give you a degree, online schools must be accredited just like a brick-and-mortar school.
But if you want to want to study it on your own, here is my suggestion.
Begin at the beginning, which is to learn the basic topics.
The easiest way is by topic. Otherwise you forget in the 2nd book you choose to read what was said in the 1st book, and most of it won?t make sense anyway until you have a lot of concepts under your belt. Those concepts are the ?topics? in the Syntopicon. Among the topics are all of the branches of philosophy from metaphysics to aesthetics.
The Syntopicon is Volumes II and III of a 60 volume set of books in most libraries. You can read what interests you by topic?102 of them. Each chapter is only about 12 pages long, and at the end of each chapter are tons of references so you can find an author on that topic that interests you.
Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World
There are also a few beginner?s websites, like the one by Britannica, with its own Dictionary of terms. http://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm
Only after you have the basic understanding of what philosophers have already said in history can you begin to understand the significance of what they say in the modern era. How will you know that statement made about free will by Nietzsche is not in reference to a statement made by Plato or by Averroes if you have not read a paragraph or two from Plato and Averroes on the subject?
Historicism is often extremely important when the author himself expects you to understand the context of his words. And you will not get a broader introduction than the Syntopicon, nor one that is so logically put together. There are good books out there, like the ones by Will Durant, etc. But there is nothing like the experience you get when you read through the Syntopicon. I buy separate volumes of the 60-book series through used books stores, as I find them.
After you read through those two volumes, THEN you can decide what else you want to read, because now you will have destinations to seek.
Suggestion by Flowquietly
All a university does is it gives you a potted history of philisophical types and questions, it also gives you list of books to read, the rest is a few years of reading and research, What university does not let you do is think for yourself!! you are not allowed to have any persoanl thought, if you have something to say you must research someone who has put what yopu want to say in print. This is a big drawback if you have ideas that you want to express.
By teaching yourself, you have the freesdom delve into your own ideas. These few books will get you started;
Sophies world by Jostein Gaarder ? a brief history of philosophy and philosphers
Plato?s republic
The great Learning, Annalects and the doctrine of the mean by Confucius
This web page may be of help as well;
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2yyffa/www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
Suggestion by Peter V
The contents of the course, and the responsibilities awaiting those with recognized qualifications, warrants something better then ?short?coursess.
You are working with people?s psychological problems, no such course justifies that.
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Can someone please help me with my physics?
A block is attached to a horizontal spring and oscillates back and forth on a frictionless horizontal surface at a frequency of 4.20 Hz. The amplitude of the motion is 6.03 x 10-2 m. At the point where the block has its maximum speed, it suddenly splits into two identical parts, only one part remaining attached to the spring. (a) What is the amplitude and (b) the frequency of the simple harmonic motion that exists after the block splits?
Please show your wok? I want to understand how to do this not just get through it.
Suggestion by Pankaj
Hi Haley, I will definitely help u out in most of the Physics Problems.
original Amplitude, A0 =6.03?10-2m
original frequency, f0= 4.20Hz.
original mass of block = M
Let new Amplitude and freq be A1 and f1 respectively.
As you said the block splits into two equal halves right at mean position (where velocity will be maximum and spring is at its natural length). Two cases may arise, please read carefully:
1. Suppose this splitting takes place just before the block starts compressing the spring. The split blocks will still complete half cycle remaining in contact as if block was intact for half-cycle. This will happen because free block would be pressing attached block whose motion is being retarted by the spring till spring is maximally compressed at quarter cycle. For next quarter cycle, the free block will be continuously pressed and accelerated by the attached block. So, there will be no change in this half-cycle. And blocks will separate only when spring starts stretching.
2. Splitting takes place just after the spring starts stretching. clearly the free block will separate out from the system as it will continue moving with its uniform velocity as per Newton?s first law while the attached block will start retarding due spring?s force. And now we can talk of new system, new amplitude, new frequency 
Both above cases lead to a common conclusion: New system will come into existence when spring is being stretched.
Anyways?Now, we are in a position to think ahead. As the blocks start separating right from mean position the potential energy stored in spring at that instant will be zero (U=1/2k*x^2 and x=0 here). So, all the energy is in kinetic form inside blocks. Half of this energy is carried away with free block and our new system will be having only half of the initial energy. At the time of max compression (or stretch) whole energy will be in potential form inside the spring?and half of the initial one. Hence,
(a)
1/2*k*A1^2= 1/2(1/2*k*A0^2) =
=> A1= A0*sqrt(1/2) = 6.03*10-2*0.707 = 4.2632*10-2m
(b)
mass of attached block = M/2, hence
f1= 2*3.14*sqrt(k/(M/2)) = 2*3.14*sqrt(2k/M) = [2*3.14*sqrt(k/M)]* sqrt2 = 1.414*f0 = 1.414*4.20= 5.9388Hz
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