Life changing!
Reviewer Usta
August 15, 2009
Ever feel like life needs a little more meaning? Well then listen to these guys' perspectives and solutions to make sense of this craziness in life. The lecturer is super-accessible, and clear, and sometimes even funny. I'm 22, studied biology, never taken a philosophy class and never heard of Kierkegaard, and all his talk is understandable even to me.
This class builds a framework for which we can understand our own existence and what we can do with the time we got here, from the perspectives of three philosophers. Truly, it gave me three new ways to think about the meaning of life, and I now follow a bit of each. You can download all the lectures in one batch through itunes U, and be sure to get the handouts he references here: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/7-s08/html/Handouts.html
And the last movie, Breathless, is available free on Google Video.
NEW VERSION: a more recent version of the podcast, from the 2008 class, is available for free on itunes U, through the itunes store.