Learning and The Meaning of Life

Catalog description

What is the most important thing to which I should be devoting my life? This course explores the existential concerns animating questions like this, ones that inspire our lifelong, liberal learning. It focuses on classic works in Western philosophy, literature, and film and examines them as texts of education. Class meetings will be devoted to a mix of lecture and discussion. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Texts & Ideas for Steinhardt students.