PHIL 210 - Existentialism

Semester Offered: Second Semester 2014
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, WR
Existential philosophy examines basic ethical issues about individual freedom, having a meaningful life, and relations with other people. This course examines the works of Camus, deBeauvoir, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre on a set of issues that are distinctive of existential philosophers, including absurdity and the meaning of life, authenticity and self-deception, the meaning of love and sex, and the significance of death and being finite.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: P. McInerney
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Three hours in philosophy. (H)