Overview

Many people consider happiness to be the main goal of human life. This course considers various issues in connection with this. What is happiness? What is the connection between a temporary feeling of joy, and an overall good life? What role do pleasure, achievement, love, rationality, and moral virtue play … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Address key issues in central theories of the good life
  • Identify key points in recent discussions of the good life
  • Encourage students to formulate a coherent argument which make reference to some key literature, both ancient and recent, on the good life
  • Enable students to clearly express their ideas about the philosophy of science both in writing and orally

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Identify central texts on the good life
2.
Investigate some of the central arguments in ancient and recent literature on the good life
3.
Formulate your own views and arguments on some important issues in recent literature on the good life
4.
Express philosophical views on the good life in in both writing and orally

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