The Examined Life

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GE-Human Culture: Philosophy What does a good life look like? How would we go about settling a question like this? How does such a question relate to what we know about reality, to our involvement in public life and service, to how we know anything at all? The ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates, famously claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living. Is he right? In this course, we explore the contours of the good life by introducing the basic methods and sub-fields of philosophy through a close reading of the Apology of Socrates, Plato’s Republic, and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.