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M.Phil 600

Philosophical Anthropology
Name: Philosophical Anthropology
Course Number: M.Phil 600
Credit(s): 3

Course Description

M.Phil 600 Philosophical Anthropology examines the deeper structures of being human and demonstrates how, through philosophical questioning, such structures can be appropriated and made meaningful by individual human beings. In this course, students learn how human beings face the challenge of a rapidly changing technological world by reactivating perennial human existential structures relegated on the back burner, including love, the divine, and the very search for meaning itself. (M.Phil 600 Philosophy of Anthropology)

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand philosophical anthropology emphasizing the human being and being human.
  • Critically analyze the deeper structures of being human.
  • Learn how individual human beings appropriate and make meaningful larger structures in life such as tradition, authenticity, being, high technology in the age of virtual reality, and the Catholic tradition.
  • Cultivate the ability to formulate and express ideas across varying levels of abstraction, facilitating effective communication of complex philosophical concepts.

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