By the end of this class, you will:

  1. Be able to explain what existentialists (like Jean Paul Sartre) mean when they claim that “essence precedes existence,” and “we are condemned to be free”
  2. Be able to compare a theist or an Aristotelian’s answer to the question “Is there meaning in life?” to the existentialist’s
  3. Be able to articulate one practical decision in life you might make differently if you were (or were not) an existentialist

(K2, K, L6)

Before the Plenary

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Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism”

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After the Plenary

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