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HOPE: What Makes Us Human
Tel Aviv University and Campus - the Israeli National Project for Digital Learning via edX
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Why breathe? Why breed? Why bleed? What justifies continuing, creating, and killing lives? Seeking answers to these thorny questions, Princeton University and Tel Aviv University have joined hands to create HOPE, a unique online journey into the heart of humanity at both its brightest and its darkest, in private and in public. Turning to existentialism for guidance, HOPE (Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism) explores a dozen themes: Human/nature, identity & authenticity, freedom & liberty, reflection, happiness, death & dread,...
Syllabus
- The tenets, thinkers, and concepts of existentialism
- What distinguishes humans from animals and machines
- The meanings of identity and authenticity and how they impact politics
- The nexus between liberty, freedom, bad faith, and reflection
- Types of happiness and the point of pursuing itâprivately and publicly
- The importance of death and dread in our lives
- How people seek meaning and legitimacy through truth, morality, and religion
- The interplay of love and alienation, and the use of both in politics
- What, and how much, we may hope for
Tel Aviv University and Campus - the Israeli National Project for Digital Learning via edX
5 hours
English
On-Demand
Beginner
Instructor
Uriel Abulof
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