Brief Summary
This course is all about diving into existential philosophy to help you find meaning in your life. You’ll explore ideas from famous philosophers and learn how to make choices that shape your life beautifully. Let’s turn your life into an artwork!
Key Points
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Explore life's big questions like 'Why am I here?' and 'How should I live?'
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Learn from famous existential philosophers like Nietzsche and Sartre.
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Discover how to design projects that bring meaning to your life.
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Use exercises to apply concepts in your daily life.
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Turn your life into a creative masterpiece.
Learning Outcomes
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Understand key existential concepts like freedom and meaning.
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Apply philosophical ideas to everyday life situations.
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Create personal projects that resonate with your life purpose.
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Reflect on your choices and how they shape your identity.
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Gain insights into the works of major existential thinkers.
About This Course
Use key concepts and practices from Existential Philosophy to turn your life into a work of art
Why are you alive? How should you live? How can you turn your life into a work of art? How can you live an authentic life - that is, live the life that you were meant to live?
If you have ever posed yourself these kinds of questions, you're in good company. Philosophers known as "Existentialists" have posed these questions about our own lives and developed some very useful theories and practices around them.
This course examines key ideas from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault, giving you a clear and simple explanation of their main ideas about the central questions we have about the meaning of our lives.
In this course you will learn to examine your life and the choices you make from the standpoint of key concepts such as freedom, meaning, and community. You will learn to design and implement thw kind of projects that give meaning to your life.
The course consists of:
11 thematic videos on giving shape to your life (2-5 minutes),
7 narrated powerpoint videos on the life and work of existentialist philosophers (3-10 mins)
a series of exercises for you to try out in your daily life
Start turning your life into a work of art
Practice key ideas from Existential philosophy
Understand key ideas from Existential philosophers
Shyni Y.
loved learning about various philosophies in a nutshell, really insightful packed with lots of food for thought. couldn't digest them all at once, so I'd definitely have to watch it a few times to internalize it. highly recommend :)