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Sep 27, 2024
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PHIL 651 - Happiness (3 units)
Branch of ethics that concerns happiness. Topics include: friendship, pleasure, emotion, virtue, physical versus intellectual or spiritual goods, individualism, community, nonconformity, creativity and value relativism. (Formerly PHIL 400/600; implemented Spring 2004.)
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to state a thesis about a philosophical text relating to the theme of happiness, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
2. Students will be able to explain and interpret some central ideas associated with the philosophical literature on the theme of happiness.
3. Students will be able to distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a text relevant to the philosophical study of happiness and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
4. Students will be able to show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in a text relevant to the scholarly study of happiness.
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