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Nov 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.
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. 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. explain and interpret some central ideas associated with the philosophical literature on the theme of happiness.
3. 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. show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in a text relevant to the scholarly study of happiness.
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