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INTRO TO EXISTENTIALISM - PHI183 Spring 2025
Course
Ivan Gutierrez
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Introduction to existentialism, intellectual currents of the 20th century, the existentialists’ characteristic preoccupations, human freedom, religious conformity, cultural homogenization, unfeeling rationality, mass society. Analysis of philosophical texts, literary texts, films.
Here is the course outline:
1. Being Precedes EssenceI am, therefore I think |
2. AnxietyFreedom's possibility? |
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are DeadA methodical madness? |
4. The Temptations of FaithPinnacle of paradoxical courage or instinct of weakness? |
5. The Reasonableness of ReasonThe syllogism as a knife-thrust |
6. The HerdA crowd has no hands: the values of the pusillanimous |
7. Bad Faith and The LookFacticity and transcendence, in-itself and for-itself |
8. No ExcusesAdam's realization before the tree |
9. Living DangerouslyA happy Sisyphus |
10. Inside Llewyn Davis"If I had wings like Noah's dove..." |