About Us
The School of Practical Philosophy is a centre for spiritual and practical knowledge and enquiry.
The School aims to help individuals lead a fuller, richer and more useful life and to evolve the spiritual aspect of their being in accordance with natural laws.
Students may continue their studies for as long as they wish.
Some stay for a few terms and some for many years.
This aim is pursued primarily by offering courses in practical philosophy which are presented with a stimulating approach and on the principle of neither accepting nor rejecting what is presented, but verifying it through one’s own experience.
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About the School
The School is properly constituted through its Constitution, and is a registered public benefit, not for profit organisation.
Nonprofit Organisation Registration Number:
051-129-NPO
Each year, members of the School meet at an Annual General Meeting to elect five executive committee members who together with six branch chairpersons deal with the day-to-day management of the School’s funds and properties to ensure that the necessary facilities are available as needed for the provision of courses.
The School's primary source of funding is the fees paid by students attending courses. Fees are kept to the minimum necessary to provide for the facilities required to offer courses as widely as possible. In addition, the School depends a great deal on the generosity of students through gifts and bequests. Over the last fifty years in Gauteng, the School has acquired a number of properties which are all used for the provision of courses or the location of the children’s schools. The aim is to maintain and improve the properties as best possible to provide the most suitable surroundings for philosophical study. No member obtains an income from the School’s activities.
There is an international fellowship of many schools and branches around the world, all of which offer courses based on those which have been developed in the School of Economic Science in London and which apply the same principles.
Each School is an independent organisation with its own leadership and administration, but they are united by a common approach to philosophy and its practice. Contact is maintained by regular visits and interchanges between students. Schools around the world are known as School of Economic Science, School of Philosophy, or School of Practical Philosophy. Although the names may vary, the underlying principle of all these schools is the same.
Here are some of the schools around the world:
