Course Description

PY239 Explorations of the Self 0.5

Conceptual frameworks concerning the nature of the self. Self-identity and the social context, the experience of meaninglessness, the fact of death, the experience of liberation, the possibility of reconstructing one's identity. The course seeks to discover and raise fundamental philosophical questions about accepted ways of thinking about the self.†

Prerequisite: Registration status: senior student.

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor