Programme in detail

Eudaemonia is designed to serve as a comprehensive Sixth-Form core course, comprising one 90 minute seminar a week for 34 weeks. Most seminars require around 15-30 minutes of preparatory reading and/or reflection from students. 

The seminars reference works from a variety of writers, artists, and persons of historical interest throughout time, though who tend not to occupy a prominent position in school and Sixth-Form curriculums, if they feature at all. The list includes Augustine of Hippo, Maximus the Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Hildergard of Bingen, Confucius, René Descartes, G. K. Chesterson, Gilbert Ryle, Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Victor Frankl, Karol Wotijla (Pope John Paul II), Makoto Fujimura, and Thomas Nagel. 

We have arranged the seminars like a tube map with different 'lines' or subjects. Teachers have the option of delivering a small selection of the seminars in the curriculum, according to subject. They may do this to enhance an existing course or module of a similar nature, for example. The full list of subjects includes:

• Anthropology

• Language

• Culture

• Society

• Science

• Ecology

• Service

• Wisdom

A seminar typically involves more than one of these subjects. Hence, the tube map design illustrates the various intersections of these different subjects. However, the tube line series enable teachers to more or less isolate certain subjects for consideration. This is not always practical, however. Service and wisdom always present together; there is no difference in content here. Language is a very small component of the curriculum, with only four seminars making reference to it. 

Culture and anthropology, thought they have some overlap, may be distinguished. Culture deals with the arts, including literature, art, architecture, music, and games, whilst anthropology deals with questions of human nature, such as the mind-body problem. 

Forthcoming.

We require that schools who purchase our curriculum complete at least one one hour socratic seminar training session with us. We recognise that our approach to education will be unfamiliar to many educators in the UK, so we want to support you to deliver seminars to the highest quality possible. 

The training sessions are ran like mock seminars, where participants are asked to lead a seminar for 10-15 minutes each. It is advised that your institution invites a small number of staff to these sessions. This enables us to run a better session with multiple participants (a group of 4-5 is ideal inclusive of the training leader) and your institution benefits from having a small team of teachers who can distribute the curriculum's seminars between them, if that is preferable. 

For schools in the London area, these can be arranged in-person. Otherwise, they will take place on Teams. 

The curriculum is not yet available as it is currently under development.