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Quest for Meaning

Quest for Meaning

Course Texts & Readings

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

Quest for Meaning: Growing up in a Flattened World
Professor Frank Hamilton

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)

  1. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1993). The Grand Inquisitor with related chapters from The Brothers Karamazov. Trans. Contance Garnett. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  2. Felice, William. (2010). The Global New Deal - Economic and Social Human Rights in World Politics. (2nd Ed). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  3. Frayn, Michael. (1998). Copenhagen. New York: Anchor Books.
  4. Kidder, Tracy. (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House.
  5. McKibben, William. (2011). Eaarth. Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. St Martin’s Griffin.
  6. Singer, Peter. (2011). Practical Ethics (3rd Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  7. Thornton, Lawrence. (1987). Imagining Argentina. New York: Bantam.
  8. Eckerd College. (2011). Quest for Meaning Syllabus. St. Petersburg: Eckerd College. [free distribution in class]

Fall Plenary Sessions

9/20/11 Professor Davina Lopez - Faith and our Quest for Meaning

9/29/11 Professor William Felice and Bob Devin Jones - The Global Perspective and Our Quest for Meaning

10/13/11 Author Bill McKibben -The Natural Environment and Our Quest for Meaning

10/20/11 Professor Suzan Harrison - The Humanities and Our Quest for Meaning

11/01/11 Professor Anne Cox - Natural Science and Our Quest for Meaning

11/08/11 Professor Arthur Skinner - The Arts and Our Quest for Meaning

11/15/11 Professor Frank Hamilton - Social Science and Our Quest for Meaning