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Quest for Meaning
Quest for Meaning is a senior level course created to challenge you to ask and seek answers to questions of meaning and purpose in your own life within the context of the greater community.
Course Texts & Readings

All readings are available as PDF documents which require the free Abobe Acrobat Reader.

Welcome to QFM
Professor Anne J. Cox

Commentary On Ethics And Ethical Theory
Professor Bruce V. Foltz

Faith As Trust
Professor David J. Bryant

Dostoevsky Readings and Study Guide
Professor Bruce V. Foltz


Course Texts

Available at the campus bookstore

Required:

  1. Brown, Lester. Plan B 3.0. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.
  2. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Grand Inquisitor (with related chapters from The Brothers Karamazov). Trans. Contance Garnett. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.
  3. Felice,William. The Global New Deal - Economic and Social Human Rights in World Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
  4. Frayn,Michael. Copenhagen. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
  5. Kidder, Tracy. MountainsBeyondMountains. New York: Random House, 2004.
  6. Singer,Peter. Practical Ethics. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1999.
  7. Thorton, Lawrence. Imagining Argentina. New York: Bantam, 1987.
  8. Quest for Meaning Course Pack. St. Petersburg, EckerdCollege, 2008. [free distribution in class]

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