PHI 3550 - Existentialism

Institution:

Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Description:

3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PHI 1010 and three additional hours in philosophy or Permission of instructor The study of the existentialist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. Philosophers and writers include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Dostoevsky, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. Problems covered include: the nature of Being; freedom and responsibility; the other and the body; the moral life; applications of existentialism to political life; and psychotherapeutic theory.

Credits:

5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.msudenver.edu/

Phone Number:

(303) 556-3058

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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