PHIL140

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The Good Life

Subject Code

PHIL

Course Number

140

Department(s)

Course Title

The Good Life

Course Description

This course examines two related areas of ethics: Theories of the good life or well-being make up the first. Engaging perspectives from various disciplines, we take up questions like 'what makes a life go well?' and 'what is worth pursuing for its own sake?' The good life involves not simply feeling good but also being good and doing right by others. Knowing how we should treat one another can be aided by having a grasp of general moral ideals. Normative ethics is the term for this area of inquiry, and occupies the latter part of the course. 4SH. CC: Ethics.

Course Types

Standard (STAND), Ethics (ETHCS)

Semester Hours

4