What Are Enduring Questions?
Philosophy is a way of living, not just something to study. It is the act of asking after life’s perplexing questions.
What does a just world look like, and what’s my part in making it happen? What’s the best way to be a friend? Are we the same person for a lifetime?
Books, movies, television, visual art, and music often provoke wonder about these big and long-lasting questions.
At Premise, we wonder and learn together.
Every Premise course is designed around one enduring question.
Our students bring questions to class, and the instructor guides the group to deep inquiry.
Over 90% of Premise students report leaving class having thought about a topic in a new way and hearing a perspective they’d not yet considered.
“The ability to ask beautiful questions, often in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it, as it does by having it answered. You just have to keep asking. And before you know it, you will find yourself actually shaping a different life, meeting different people, finding conversations that are leading you in those directions that you wouldn’t even have seen before.”- David Whyte
Premise instructors design courses centered on life’s enduring questions.
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