Happiness and the Good Life
Your Instructor
PhD in Philosophy
Columbia University in the City of New York
Hello! I have a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, and I teach part-time at New York University. My research is in ancient Greek philosophy and ethics. I have 4+ years of teaching experience as a junior professor teaching ethics, Greek philosophy, and literature. My pedagogical training comes from a two-year Columbia College Core Preceptorship, a fellowship for learning course instruction and teaching classes at Columbia college. In my research, I study the imagination and emotions, and seek to understand what is distinctive about human intelligence (looking at both historical theories and contemporary scientific research).
$180
What you'll learn
To learn about different concepts and theories of a happy life (such as a Epictetus' view of happiness or Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory of happiness)
To develop your ability to analyse different concepts and reflect on your own views on happiness and a good life.
To develop your ability to analyse and understand arguments in philosophy and other argumentative writing.
To cultivate your ability to articulate a claim and present good arguments, reasons in support of it.
Please note that the point of the course is not to arrive at specific answers to questions, but to provide you with the tools and skills to critically assess different theoretical proposals, and to provide you to with opportunities for philosophical reflections of your own understanding of how one should a life, and of happiness.
Course Schedule
We will look at some contemporary ideas of a happy life by looking at the measurements/components of the World Happiness Index. We will look at some important philosophical distinctions that we will be turning to in the coming weeks (such as objective versus subjective things), and also at basic argument structures and common logical fallacies.
What You Get
Live interactive sessions
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Small discussion groups
Up to 20 students for personalized attention
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Your Instructor
PhD in Philosophy
Columbia University in the City of New York
Hello! I have a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, and I teach part-time at New York University. My research is in ancient Greek philosophy and ethics. I have 4+ years of teaching experience as a junior professor teaching ethics, Greek philosophy, and literature. My pedagogical training comes from a two-year Columbia College Core Preceptorship, a fellowship for learning course instruction and teaching classes at Columbia college. In my research, I study the imagination and emotions, and seek to understand what is distinctive about human intelligence (looking at both historical theories and contemporary scientific research).
$180