Philosophy 3375 The Meaning of Life Fall 2007 Kazez

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HANDOUTS, READINGS, LINKS

(added throughout semester)

8/28  Syllabus    Tolstoy's Crisis (images)    Handout 1

9/4  The Desert Saints (images),  Handout 2

9/11  Handout 3, about Admiral Stockdale, Stockdale on Epictetus (pdf)

9/18  Handout 4, Exam I Questions

9/25  More Happiness Please (Kazez)

10/2  Handout 5

10/9  Handout 6, Unspeakable Conversations, about Johnson, about Singer

10/16  Handout 7, Existentialism is a Humanism (Sartre), about Harriet Jacobs

10/23  Handout 8, about Paul Farmer, about Leopold and Loeb, Exam 2 Questions

10/30  Paper Topic (turn in page 3)

11/6   Handout 9

11/13  Does the Universe Have a Purpose?  (read a few before class), Handout 10

11/27  For tonight read Death (Nozick) and Taylor, but skip Flew.  Handout11, plus Chart:  The Sense of Meaninglesness

12/4  Handout 12

12/11

Picture:  Rene Magritte, The Lost Jockey (1948)