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Revision as of 16:38, 5 September 2013
Return to Happiness
September 3, 2013
First Class Topics
- Course, Material, and Goals
- Course Methods and web sites
- Course website
- Course wiki
- Einstruction site.
- A typical prep cycle for the course: read, engage, review, prep SQs.
- 6 hours / week !
- Grading Schemes
- Ereserves - pdf printing encouraged.
September 5, 2013
1. Classical Greek Models of Happiness
- 1. The Greek Philosophical Models in Plato and Aristotle
- Plato
- Contrast the Symposium with the cult of Dionysius
- Reasoning our way to the Good (Happiness). Symposium as purification ritual. bad desire/good desire
- Object of desire is transcendent. (Reminder about Platonic metaphysics.)
- Aristotle (note McMahon pp. 41ff and Aristotle reading)
- end, function, craft, techne. Hierarchy of arts.
- end vs. final end -- the universal good is the final end, not relative. sec. 6-7.
- happiness as activity of the soul in accordance with virture (def., but also consequence of reasoning from nature of human life)
- Section 13: nature of the soul. two irrational elements: veg/appetitive and one rational. Note separation/relationship.
- Aristotle's extra conditions ....
- 2. The Greek Cultural Model
- Connection of the culture with tragedy, appreciate of fate, happiness as gift of gods.
- Dionysian culture
2. Some Comments on Philosophical Method.
- first example from first class day: listing phenomena, making distinctions, posing questions, looking for relationships.
