Seminar: Phenomenology of Will
with Tom Amarque
Starts August 10th, 2025, ends August 31th
Synopsis
Do you feel that all these meta-cognitive models and theories don´t help you to lead a more meaningful life, to decide what to do, or to even know what to do? Do you really know what you really want?
There is a disconnect between our levels of cognitive understanding and mapping of the world, and our abilities to proper act in, with and within the world.
In this seminar you will shift your attention from intellectualizing and world/self-mapping – which you already can do – to a more action-based perspective. What is will, what are the characteristics of proper action and how do you get to know what to do in a given situation?
In this 4 week introductory seminar, Tom Amarque will shift the discourse from descriptive world/self- mapping into a prescriptive mapping of action and will.
Module Outline
The lectures will start Sunday, September 7th, at 6 pm CET. Video-recordings will be available afterwards
Class I: Setting the Stage
August 10th
What do we need to do to shift our attention from world/self mapping to action-mapping?
Class II: A test dive
August 17
Ways of framing will: modern and postmodern forms of understanding will and volition
Class III – A proper foundation
August 24
What can we observe: What is observation; how is observation linked to action?
Class IV – bringing will into the 21st century
August 31
Three stages of will; characterisics of will, how to undertand what can be wilt
About your facilitator
Tom Amarque
is writer, philosopher, podcast host, editor & publisher. His recent book, ‘Phenomenology of will’, bringa the discouse of will into a post-postmodern age. He founded the German publishing house Phaenomen-Verlag in 2009 and Parallax-Media in 2019. Tom currently lives in Palma, Spain. Contact him a tomamarque@yahoo.de