CLS-232 Guide to the Good Life

GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions)
How to live a good life, according to ancient theories about the summum bonum (“highest good”). Topics include ancient arguments about what is truly important, the pragmatic principles posited by Epicureans and Stoics, and the possibility of living well according to these values, both then (as exemplified by individual Greek and Roman figures) and now. 4 credits