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🎱 David Hume | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the complete philosophy of David Hume: the copy principle, Hume's fork, the problem of induction, the bundle theory of the self, the is-ought problem, moral sentimentalism, Of Miracles, and the critique of the design argument. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work integration practice so you can begin working with the ideas, not just reading about them.
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📜 Module 13 — Thinking Like Aquinas: The Lens in Everyday Life | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on thinking like Thomas Aquinas: discover the lens his separate arguments add up to. Explore his conviction that reality is intelligible, the both/and instinct that fused faith with reason and Aristotle with Christianity, and the purpose question asked of things, actions, and whole lives. Revisit the dumb ox who out-argued his century, his final verdict that his life’s work was straw, and the January 28 feast day.
📜 Module 12 — Just War: When Is War Permissible? | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on just war theory: follow how Thomas Aquinas, building on Augustine, answered whether waging war is always sinful. Learn his three conditions of legitimate authority, just cause, and right intention, then trace how Vitoria, Suárez, and Grotius developed jus ad bellum and jus in bello into modern international law and the Geneva Conventions. Weigh the pacifist objection from turning the other cheek and the charge that every nation claim
📜 Module 11 — The Principle of Double Effect | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the principle of double effect: when it is right to do good knowing harm will follow, the four conditions that decide it, and why it explains the trolley problem, end of life care, and the ethics of war. In plain English for everyday people.
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