Tutor information
Magnus Moar
Magnus Moar is a graduate of Oxford and Sussex Universities with a doctoral thesis focussing on the work of Kierkegaard. Magnus has a published article on Kierkegaard and Levinas and has been teaching undergraduates for fifteen years.
Courses
This course aims to explore the key themes and ideas in one of the most important works of existentialism: Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'.
This course is intended to be an introduction to the key concerns of the major Western philosophers from the earliest days of the pre-Socratic philosophers through to the twentieth century.
New technology, globalization and the natural world make the status of personhood an increasingly uncertain matter. We will explore important questions about 'being human' and our relations to others.
Examine the exploration of philosophical issues pertaining to human nature in literature from the Reformation through to the Twentieth Century