Ethics of the Good Life (Syllabus) (original) (raw)

What is the good life and how do we live it? This is one of the fundamental questions not only of philosophy and religion, but of the everyday human experience. The problem is personal and existential as much as it is academic. In this course, we read and discuss primary texts in classical, religious, and (post-)modern traditions of intellectual history that deal in some way with this issue. The aim of our study, as a class, in assigned groups, and individually, we be to come to a better and more profound understanding of what it means to act ethically in the world toward the end of living a good life.