IDH 2935

The Search for Meaning in a Secular Society

Quest 1
Spring 2024
Class # 30004
LIT 0121 (T), ARCH 0215 (R)
David McPherson
David McPherson
Tuesday, Thursday
T 11:45 AM–1:40 PM, R 12:50 PM–1:40 PM

Course Syllabus

University of Florida's Hamilton Center Library

Additional Course Info

The Essential Question: What does it mean to live in a secular age? How does living in a secular age offer new opportunities and challenges for the perennial human quest for meaning?

Instructor

David McPherson

David McPherson

Professor
CSE 0474
R 12:45 PM-2:45 PM and by appointment
David McPherson is Professor of Philosophy in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida as well as Affiliate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. McPherson is the author of The Virtues of Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as the editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

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