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| 0662-2052-01 | Meaning in Life: Philosophical & Psychological Perspectives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course description
Aims: This course will introduce students to fundamental philosophical and psychological theories on the meaning to life. This will include the writings of salient philosophers, such as Plato, Kant, Pascal, Shopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Camus; and renowned psychologists, such as Fraud, Jung, James, Fromm, Frankel and Yalom.