Living a Good Life
Course Materials
Welcome Email
Introduction
Using the Course Site
Using Perusall
Unit 1 Question Submission Form
Unit 2 Question Submission Form
Unit 3 Question Submission Form
Unit 4 Question Submission Form
Unit 1: Desire and the Good Life (Jan. 10)
Week 1 Email
1. Taking an Inventory of Desires
Exercise: An Inventory of Desires
2. Mapping Out Desires
Exercise: Mapping Your Desires
3. Final Ends
Exercise: Final Ends
Unit 1: Desire and the Good Life (Jan. 17)
4. Callicles' Moral Psychology
5. Questioning Callicles
6. Socrates's Moral Psychology
Unit 1 Panel Discussion
CANCELLED: Live Zoom Conversation: Unit 1
Unit 2: Positive Psychology (Jan. 24)
1. Positive Psychology I
Exercise: Authentic Happiness
2. Positive Psychology II
Exercise: Reflection and Practice
3. Positive Psychology III
Watch: Claire (YouTube Documentary)
Unit 2 Panel Discussion
Live Zoom Conversation Recording - Unit 1 and 2
Unit 3: Confucianism (Jan. 31)
1. Introduction to Confucianism
2. Social Justice
3. The Four Sprouts
Exercise: Nurturing a Sprout
4. Physical Desires
Exercise: Focusing on the Physical
Unit 3: Confucianism (Feb. 7)
5. Confucianism Rituals
Exercise: Ritual Control
6. Reflection
Exercise: Reflective Control
7. Spontaneity
Exercise: Sincerity and Joy
Unit 3 Panel Discussion
Live Zoom Conversation Recording - Unit 3
Unit 4: Aristotle (Feb. 14)
1. Introduction to Greco-Roman Ethics
2. Happiness as Eudaimonia
3. What Happiness Is Not
4. What Happiness Is
Exercise: Virtue and Happiness
Exercise: Virtue as a Craft
Live Zoom Conversation Recording - Unit 4
Unit 4: Aristotle (Feb. 21)
5. Virtue and the Mean
Exercise: Virtue and the Mean
6. Virtue and Pleasure
Exercise: Virtue and Pleasure
7. Virtue and Friendship
Exercise: Virtue and Friendship
Unit 4 Panel Discussion
Extra Resources
Course Survey
Course Survey
3. Final Ends
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