{"id":15475,"date":"2024-03-18T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=15475"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:43:23","slug":"interested-in-exploring-the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/interested-in-exploring-the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in exploring the meaning of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In PHL 242 next semester we will be taking up the following questions:\u00a0 <em>Does<\/em> life have meaning and, if it does, do we discover that meaning or create it? How is religion relevant to meaning in life? Does altruism make life meaningful or undermine it? If we think of our lives differently, will they have more meaning or are we only fooling ourselves? What role do success and suffering each play in the meaning of life? Do the lives of famous or heroic people have more meaning than those of \u201cordinary persons\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>We will be meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Prerequisite:\u00a0 Any 100-level Philosophy course or permission of instructor.\u00a0 Contact Dr. Paul at linda.paul@wilkes.edu with any questions about the course.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In PHL 242 next semester we will be taking up the following questions:\u00a0 Does life have meaning and, if it does, do we discover that meaning or create it? How is religion relevant to meaning in life? Does altruism make life meaningful or undermine it? If we think of our lives differently, will they have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/interested-in-exploring-the-meaning-of-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interested in exploring the meaning of life?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15502,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}