INQ-120 | Happiness and Goodness.

Full Title: Happiness and Goodness.

Topic Description:

This course explores the relation between living a happy life and leading a morally good life. We will use ancient and modern classics to identify conceptions of happiness ranging from the pursuit of pleasure to spiritual fulfillment, as well as different ways of conceiving moral goodness. Some of these deal with discerning and following our own interests and others with our relations to others and the bonds of duty that preserve those relations. By examining the traditions of ethical thought that embody these views and debating their practical applications we can hope to arrive at a better understanding of the grounds for our moral judgments.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2009