PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE

Catalog description

This course examines the essence and meaning of modern and contemporary human culture. Based on the study of the assigned text, the student will have the opportunity to assess how various cultural forms found in literature, film, art, and music display acc ounts of the human quest for purpose and meaning. The course will concentrate on analyzing the relationship between wisdom -centered, i.e. theistic, and non -wisdom centered, i.e. non -theistic, manifestations of culture. The student will study how these appr oaches often exist side -by-side and engage one another at times fruitfully, at times polemically. Authors such as the following will be considered in the course: Kierkegaard, Hegel, Newman, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, C. Dawson, L. Strauss, S. Weil, G. Marcel, and K. Wojtyla (John Paul II). Prerequisites: PHIL 205, PHIL 206.