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Philosophy Courses

🎉 Our Academy-wide rollout has begun! 2-5 new courses launch each week! We're releasing 150+ free courses across multiple topics in waves. Our Philosophy Courses are planned to all be LIVE BEFORE Christmas 2026!

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Welcome to the Free & Low Cost Philosophy Courses. Everything IFS Academy is a free and low cost global multi-topic learning center designed to meet people wherever they are on the path to becoming their best selves. We believe financial barriers should never stand in the way of anyone's personal growth and spiritual development, so this is our gift to the community.

Philosophy began with ordinary people asking hard questions about how to live, what to value, and what it all means. Each course in this series follows one great thinker and brings their ideas down from the ivory tower, taught in plain, relatable language for everyday people, no background in philosophy required.

Free Courses

Open instantly to everyone
150+ self-paced courses to choose from
No tests, quizzes, or homework
No account required
No sign-up
No email gate
Take the course in sequential order or jump around according to your interest

Simply select a course below and begin. Enjoy!

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Aristotle holding a scroll, wearing layered cream and brown classical Greek robes, standing among stone columns and sculpture in a calm ancient architectural courtyard.

Aristotle

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore Aristotle's philosophy on ethics, virtue, logic, politics, happiness, and human flourishing, and discover why his ideas continue to shape modern thought.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Realistic portrait of the Chinese philosopher Confucius standing in a traditional courtyard wearing layered scholar’s robes and holding a rolled scroll in soft natural daylight.

Confucius

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn the teachings of Confucius, including virtue, family, leadership, education, and moral character, and their lasting influence on Chinese culture and philosophy.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Realistic portrait of the French philosopher René Descartes seated in a 17th-century study wearing a black cloak with a white collar and holding a small book beside a globe and writing desk in natural daylight.

Descartes

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Examine René Descartes' philosophy of doubt, reason, consciousness, and knowledge, including his famous statement, "I think, therefore I am."

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Realistic portrait of the Scottish philosopher David Hume seated in an 18th-century study wearing an embroidered red coat and lace cuffs while holding a book beside shelves and a candlelit desk.

Hume

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Discover David Hume's ideas on human nature, skepticism, causation, emotion, morality, and the limits of knowledge through one of philosophy's greatest empiricists.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Realistic portrait of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant seated in an 18th-century study wearing a brown coat and white cravat while holding a handwritten paper beside bookshelves and a candlelit desk in natural daylight.

Kant

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking philosophy of reason, ethics, freedom, duty, and the ways the human mind shapes our experience of reality.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

daylight portrait of John Locke holding a scroll, wearing simple brown 17th-century clothing, standing in a historic English courtyard with stone buildings and a church tower in the background.

Locke

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn John Locke's influential ideas on human understanding, natural rights, government, liberty, education, and the foundations of modern democracy.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Portrait of Søren Kierkegaard seated at a wooden writing desk in a softly lit 19th-century Copenhagen interior, wearing a dark formal coat and high white collar, resting his head thoughtfully against his hand, with books, a quill, and a window opening onto a Danish church tower and cityscape behind him in natural daylight editorial realism.

Kierkegaard

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Study Søren Kierkegaard's reflections on faith, anxiety, choice, authenticity, and the individual's relationship with meaning, freedom, and God.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche standing in a European stone courtyard with historic buildings and a church spire behind him, wearing a brown 19th-century suit and distinctive thick mustache, gazing thoughtfully into the distance.

Nietzsche

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore Friedrich Nietzsche's provocative ideas on morality, values, power, nihilism, the Übermensch, and the challenge of creating meaning in life.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Plato wearing cream and rust-colored classical Greek robes, standing before ancient columns and a temple structure on a sunlit hillside landscape.

Plato

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Discover Plato's philosophy through the Theory of Forms, the Allegory of the Cave, justice, the soul, and his enduring influence on Western thought.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau writing with a quill at an outdoor table beside books, wearing simple 18th-century clothing, with a lakeside landscape and countryside buildings behind him.

Rousseau

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on human nature, freedom, education, society, and the social contract that helped shape modern political philosophy.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer standing before classical European stone architecture, wearing a dark 19th-century coat with a white cravat and his distinctive wild white hair framing his face.

Schopenhauer

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Examine Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of desire, suffering, the will, compassion, and the pursuit of wisdom through one of history's most influential pessimists.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Socrates wearing brown classical Greek robes, standing among ancient stone columns and temple architecture in a sunlit Athenian setting.

Socrates

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Learn about Socrates' method of questioning, his pursuit of wisdom, ethical inquiry, and the philosophical legacy that transformed Western civilization.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Baruch Spinoza wearing a black 17th-century coat with a wide white collar, standing beneath a stone archway with historic Dutch buildings and a canal bridge in the background.

Spinoza

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Explore Baruch Spinoza's vision of God, nature, freedom, reason, and ethics, and his profound influence on philosophy, science, and modern spirituality.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Editorial-style daylight portrait of Thomas Aquinas wearing a black Dominican habit with a radiant sun emblem on his chest, standing beside medieval stone church architecture with a tower rising behind him.

Thomas Aquinas

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People

Study Thomas Aquinas' integration of faith and reason, natural law, virtue, theology, and the philosophical foundations of medieval Christian thought.

Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Who Writes Our Courses

Our free self-paced courses are a genuine human-AI collaboration, roughly 50% human and 50% AI.

These courses are not someone typing a single prompt and publishing whatever comes out.

We do not use a free or entry-level AI. We invest in one of the most advanced professional-tier AI models available, because the depth and accuracy of writing at this level is in a different league from what most people experience with low-cost AI.

While AI models arrive with extensive training across these topics, we never rely on that alone. Before drafting a single lesson, the AI performs in-depth research on that specific topic, pulling from resources written by qualified experts in the field: published books, professional essays, clinical resources, and articles from practitioners and specialists with relevant credentials. Every draft is grounded in that expert-created material, not generated from thin air.

With that said, whether something is written entirely by humans, entirely by AI, or by the two working together, errors can occur. We encourage readers to verify important information and consult a qualified professional in the relevant area wherever appropriate.

For those who would like more specifics, here is the six-step process behind every course:

1. Humans design the courses and set the teaching standards and outlines

2. Humans shape the arc of each lesson

3. AI conducts deep, highly specific research on each individual lesson topic before drafting the lesson

4. Humans review, direct, and run multiple edits alongside AI

5. Humans approves every lesson before it's published

6. Each finished course then goes to Eleven Labs, where it's recorded by one of their AI voices

We have poured a tremendous amount of time, care, and love into these free courses, in the hope that they help you become your best Self.

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Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute. These courses, lessons, and practices are offered for educational and self-reflection purposes only. They explore the ideas of philosophers across history, presented for learning and personal reflection; including a thinker does not mean we endorse every view they held, and nothing here requires you to adopt any particular philosophy, belief system, or worldview. While philosophy often addresses meaning, mortality, ethics, and the difficulties of life, these courses do not constitute therapy, mental health treatment, clinical training, or crisis support, and they should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health care.

Crisis Support: 🚨 If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feel unsafe, feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or feel too overwhelmed to safely use self-directed practices, please pause this material and reach out for immediate support. Contact a licensed mental health professional, call or text 988 in the U.S. or Canada, or use your local emergency or crisis resources.

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