PHI 3550 - Existentialism

Credits: 3 (3 + 0)

Prerequisite(s): PHI 1010 and three additional hours in philosophy or Permission of instructor

Description: The study of the existentialist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. Philosophers and writers include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Dostoevsky, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. Problems covered include: the nature of Being; freedom and responsibility; the other and the body; the moral life; applications of existentialism to political life; and psychotherapeutic theory.