Introduction to philosophy is the foundational course to all of the disciplines that emerge from the scholarly study of various philosophical streams of thought including the nature of philosophy, Western philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, human nature, contemporary philosophy, and non-Western philosophy. In the modules of this course, major concepts, as well as questions and movements within these and other various streams are presented, starting with eras even before the ancient Greeks – as early as 1200 B.C.E. As the material progresses, the modules move through historical and cultural events that correspond with an ever deepening and enriched field of philosophical premises – up to and including very recent contemporary philosophers as well as philosophers from around the world, beyond the Western understanding of philosophy.