Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013 
    
Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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HNSM 467 - Tragedy and Response: the Measure of Our Lives

3 hours
The novelist Peter DeVries’ asserts, “What people believe is a measure of what they suffer”. But, our texts (Job, Oedipus Tyrannus, and King Lear) ask, Is what people suffer also a measure of what they believe? In this seminar, these classic texts will guide our consideration of this and related questions: What are the alleged sources of our suffering? Does knowing the source(s) matter? How to respond to one’s suffering? To the suffering of others? And when no response is adequate, what then?



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