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- Offered to 1st years
- Tuesdays 16.00-18.00
- 8 weeks (autumn or spring term)
- Planned delivery: On campus (South Kensington)
- Non-credit only
You may have wondered what point, purpose or meaning life can possibly have.
There may be things you want or feel obliged to do, but is there any objective reason to regard them as important things to do? Can sense be made of suffering or is it all for nothing? Does religion provide a solution? Or if ‘God is dead’ (as Nietzsche put it), is there some other reason to go on? Should it matter if life is ultimately devoid of meaning?
This module looks at some serious philosophical answers to these questions, some dating back to Greek antiquity, others prompted by absurd routines and potentially catastrophic consequences of modern life.
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Contact the lecturer
Dr Scott Biagi
s.biagi@imperial.ac.uk