A kurzus kódja: BBN-FIL-101.05	
A kurzus megnevezése: Life, Death, and Philosophy	
A kurzus megnevezése angolul: Life, Death, and Philosophy	
A kurzus időpontja és (helye): K, 12:00-13:30 I/Bence György terem	
A KURZUS ELSŐ FOGLALKOZÁSÁRA A 2014. február 10-ÉN KEZDŐDŐ HÉTEN KERÜL SOR 	
A kurzus előadója: Leslie Muray vg. prof.	

A kurzus előfeltétele(i): Reading and conversational knowledge of English.	
A jegyszerzés módja(i): Two take essay exams with 5 questiosn; a paper on anything related to death, the topic of the class. Optional: an oral exam for part of the grade.	
Követelmények: Same as above plus readings as assigned , with students prepared to discuss in class.	

A kurzus leírása, tematikája: 
Course Description: 

While all living things die, death remains one the least understood and most mysterious of phenomena. This course examines from a variety of philosophical perspectives, Eastern and Western, the relationship between life and death; the relation between death and the question of the meaning of life; philosophical, scientific, moral and legal definitions of life and death; the question of “mass death” (genocide, modern warfare); the dynamics of dying and of grieving; and, as time allows, pertinent issues of particular interest to students.

Course Objectives:

1.	Students will attain familiarity with treatments of death of through the history of philosophy, East and West. This will include the Ancient Greeks and their notion of the immortality of the soul; aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; existentialism; process thought; and contemporary science.
2.	Students will gain exposure to death and dying and the experience of loss and grieving through literature and film (the experiential dimension).
3.	Students will have exposure to and reflect critically on the issues of “mass death,” genocide, as well as the problem of evil (the theodicy question.
4.	Students will learn to reflect critically on the theodicy question, the problem of evil.
5.	Students will gain familiarity and learn to reflect critically on such end of life issues as euthanasia, living wills, physician assisted suicide.

	

A kurzushoz tartozó kötelező irodalom: 1.) The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.
2.) Night by Elie Wiesel or Fateless by Imre Kertesz
3.) The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
4.)”The Death of Socrates” by Plato.
5.) ’The Sermon of the Buddha in the Deer Park” 

Ajánlott irodalom: 1.) On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
2.) An Introduction to the Process Understanding of Science, Society, and the Self by Leslie A. Muray
3.) The Plague by Albert Camus
4.)When a Person Dies Robert L. Kinast
5.) When Bad Things Happen to Good People by L.Harold Kushner