The aim of this course is to improve our English comprehension skills and at the same time to make ourselves familliar with academic topics, from philosophical to sociological or even linguistic ones, through perusing highly intelligent materials written by profound authors, such as Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, and Isaiah Berlin, and discussing various kinds of probelms they pose. The only thing you are required to bring in this class is an inexhaustible interest in English and in a number of intellectually exciting problems.