To philosophize is to wonder about you own existence. If you think you know yourself, it’s because you haven’t look close enough. Because if you take time to stop and think about life, it’s fundamentally strange – you own life is a riddle.

In Philosophy we spend very little time talking about the history of philosophy or the lives of philosophers. Instead, we actually philosophize. And we do that by starting out with the most basic, existential questions, that Søren Kierkegaard posed as a young man age 20: What am I destined to be? How do I find an idea for which I am willing to live and die? And how can I find a Truth that is Truth for me?

We will reflect on questions within the concepts of anxiety, despair, aesthetics, ethics, eroticism, guilt, shame, God and love. Using the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard as our focal point, our discussions will touch upon moral philosophy, the history of ideas, existential theology, psychology and sociology.

Each week we will take on a new central theme – going back and forth between Kierkegaard’s original texts and the large mythological universes of Disney and Pixar movies. The subject is not about being smart or even about becoming smarter. It’s about having those moments of clarity where you realize who you truly are, and what you truly have to do in life.

This subject is taught in English.