PHIL 210 - Existentialism

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU

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. (H)
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: P. McInerney
Prerequisites & Notes
: One course in philosophy.