Courses I am offering Fall 2008
Students are challenged to reflect on a broad range of philosophical questions about human nature and the meaning of human existence. The course carries General Studies credit for the Values frame of reference (V).
This course surveys major trends in post-Kantian European philosophy. Readings are drawn from the work of Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and others.
Every section of First-Year Experience has a topic and at least one central, concrete, complex problem or question that lends itself to scholarly analysis. The topic of this section is the need for meaning in our lives, for seeing our lives as meaningful. The central question is "What meaning can we find in our scientifically and culturally disenchanted world?".