PHIL 103:

“How Should I Live?” Philosophy and the Good Life

An immersive philosophical engagement in which students work out for themselves how they should answer four philosophical questions: “What are your moral obligations?” “How should you form your beliefs?” “Should you practice a religion, or follow a tradition?” “What will it take to make your life flourish?” To respond to these questions in a philosophical way, students engage with texts from the history of philosophy across the world, contemporary “op-eds,” and case studies relevant to the four philosophical questions. Students’ culminating projects include a written philosophical defense of their own answers to these questions in conversation with the assigned materials, and a creative project that expresses their answers to these questions. In addition to course lectures, students participate in weekly student-led, small dialogue groups that help them to become more comfortable with, and adept in, constructive and respectful philosophical discussion and community building. 

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