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PHIL 209

The Human Person: Philosophical Issues

3 units

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Questioning, Desire, Approval
  • Desire, the Good, Suffering
  • Ambition, Happiness, Enlightenment
  • Freedom, Will, Habit
  • Memory, Happiness, Temptation
  • Vanity, Boredom
  • Diversion, Reason, God
  • Self, Despair
  • Despair
  • Self, Soul, Concern, Happiness
  • Temptation, Vanity
  • Love, Happy Life

Readings

  • Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. (This edition contains two books,
    unspecified
  • bibliography, though indicate with edition/translation of Confessions
    unspecified
Fall 2023

Topics

  • Questioning, Desire, Approval
  • Desire, the Good, Suffering
  • Ambition, Happiness, Enlightenment
  • Freedom, Will, Habit
  • Memory, Happiness, Temptation
  • Vanity, Boredom
  • Diversion, Reason, God
  • Despair
  • Self, Soul, Concern, Happiness
  • Temptation, Vanity

Readings

  • Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013
    unspecified
Sources