This course is a practical guide to developing the skill of mindfulness and applying it to every aspect of daily life.

Some things can happen in our universe and others cannot. The laws of physics set this boundary between the possible and the impossible. Professor Schumacher takes the viewer into territory on both sides of the impossibility line to examine these complex realms.

The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle,...