INQ-120 | Good Life: Do We Decide?

Full Title: Freedom, Ethics, and the Good Life: Do We Decide?

Topic Description:

This course will explore the possibility of leading an ethical life and its relationship to a life lived well, “the good life.” This will be accomplished through an investigation of one of the most interesting and central philosophical and religious issues, the problem of free will and its relation to moral responsibility. Topics addressed will include a history of the problem of free will, determinism, freedom, values, responsibility, skepticism, predestination, the doctrine of karma, reincarnation, and more. The course material will include readings in western and eastern philosophical and theological thought—ancient and contemporary, psychology, and cognitive science.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2009