In Search of Meaning (PHRE-450)
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Course Description
The theme of the course is suffering, resistance, and hope. The range of human capacity for cruelty and compassion, cowardice and heroism, and blindness and vision has marked the 20th century and continues to unfold before us. From South Africa to Bosnia and from China to the United States, experiences of suffering, resistance, and hope raise important issues of human responses to political and social oppression. What are the origin, nature, and purpose of suffering? What are the sources of individual and collective resistance? Is hope futile in the face of escalating violence? By looking through the multiple lenses of philosophical texts, literature, and film at particular global struggles, we shall explore these and other questions in a seminar format.
