On the Good Life: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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One of the oldest pursuits of human beings in recorded history relates to the human pursuit of the ideal of the good life. This course will follow that pursuit chronologically, beginning with the Greeks and Romans down to the present, including such authors as Herodotus, Plato, Livy, Machiavelli, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre and Camus.