The Human Condition: Meeting Life’s Challenges

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This course will examine some of the main challenges that human beings everywhere confront in their lives. Grief, loneliness, disappointment, and the inevitability of death are universal experiences; disability of one sort or another affects everyone as they age and for some is the result of more contingent accident. Philosophical texts, classical and contemporary, will be mined for the insights they provide. Autobiographies, short stories, and movies will add the richness of lived experience to our discussions.