Existentialism

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Description: This course explores a range of philosophers and literacy sources, tracing existentialism from antiquity to present day. Students will be challenged to not simply understand these texts, but to engage them in such a way as to practice these texts, but to engage them in such a way as to practice living in and through the ideas of these great thinkers. This course is just as much about discovering the breadth of the existential tradition as it is about realizing the profound freedom, limitlessness, and potential of one's own existence despite moral absurdity, subjective epistemology, and the ever-present specter of death.