{"id":582,"date":"2007-08-04T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=582"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:37:01","slug":"whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Aska&#8230; this is going to sound like a stupid question (and maybe it really<br \/>\nis a stupid question) but I&#8217;ve looked through the course calendar and on the<br \/>\nphilosophy department website and I can&#8217;t find an answer so here goes&#8230; I want<br \/>\nto take a class about existentialism. Preferably an intro course or at least one<br \/>\nwith little or no pre-reqs&#8230; surely such a course exists&#8230; right&#8230;?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>the class you&#8217;re looking for would be PHL217H1: introduction to continental philosophy. though it isn&#8217;t exclusively existentialist, there is a lot of existentialism. plus you&#8217;ll get to read other works too, maybe even ideas of thought that are less cliche for undergraduate university students. HERE ME NOW: your week&#8217;s existentialist readings should not be discussed at bars in some attempt to impress members of the opposite sex. that is the path to lameness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Aska&#8230; this is going to sound like a stupid question (and maybe it really is a stupid question) but I&#8217;ve looked through the course calendar and on the philosophy department website and I can&#8217;t find an answer so here goes&#8230; I want to take a class about existentialism. Preferably an intro course or at least one with little or no pre-reqs&#8230; surely such a course exists&#8230; right&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-philosophy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}