THPH 225 What is the Good Life?
This course is a "great books" style inquiry into the question: What is the best way to live? This question provides a unity of focus and coherence for readings, discussion, and papers. Greek, Hebrew, Christian, Enlightenment, and modern authors give different answers. Students will witness and experience a clash of ideas about the most important subjects: human nature, justice, reason, virtue, God, happiness, faith, revelation, transcendence, self-denial, morality, politics, freedom, the state, and power. Such topics inevitably shape and define what the best way to live means.
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