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PHIL 220

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Existentialism

School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (School) Undergraduate

Academic Level

Undergraduate

Course Title

Existentialism

Description

This course is a survey of major existentialist thinkers and traditions in philosophy, beginning with Hegel, and including such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Themes addressed include authenticity, bad faith, freedom, anxiety, nihilism, mortality, existentialist ethics, phenomenology, humanism, perception, the body, and truth. Prereq.- PHIL201. Core: AH.

3

Repeatable for Additional Credit

No

Prerequisites and Corerequisites

Prerequisite: PHIL201

General Education Foundational Course Categories: Intellectual & Practical Skills

Arts & Humanities (AH)

This course is an approved AA/AS elective

Yes

This course is an approved AAS elective

Yes

Honors Section Available

No