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Class number:
3249
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Title: Being Human |
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Department: Philosophy |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 19 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: R: 6:30PM-9:00PM, SH - S204 |
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Instructor(s): Seeba, Erin |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
What does it mean to be human? How does being human differ from, say, being a plant or an animal? What sorts of abilities and activities belong to the human being "by nature," or is it within the very nature of the human to exceed and/or oppose itself to nature? This course will examine a number of philosophical and literary texts from within the Western (and especially German) intellectual traditional that have attempted to answer these questions, including certain major texts by Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. |