Index for PHIL-4800/4900

Philosophy of Happiness

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

 

Course Syllabus 4800 Spring 08

 

Schedules

For Readings and Deadlines

For Presentations

 

Project Assignments

 

Reading and Writing Guidelines

 

 

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Abstract Form

 

Supplemental Online Materials and Texts

 

For Ancient Greeks

 

Texts for Plato

Apology                                               Crito

Euthyphro                                           Republic

 

Notes for Plato

Santas Notes Crito                  Santas Notes Euthyphro

Santas Notes Apology

 

Texts for Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics

            Book I                                     Book II

Book III                                  Book VI

Book VII                                Book VIII

Book IX                                  Book X

 

Notes for Aristotle

Santas Notes Aristotle Background   Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk I

Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk II          Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk III

            Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk IV         Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk VI        

Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk VII       Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bks VIII & IX

Santas Notes Aristotle and the Good Life

 

For Buddhism    

 

Thict Nhat Hanh        

 

For Stoicism

 

Epictetus                     Encheiridion

Marcus Aurelius          Meditations

 

For Hedonism

 

Epicurus                      Letter to Menoeceus

 

Jeremy Bentham                    

Principles of Morals and Legislation (see esp. Chap 4)

 

J. S. Mill

On Liberty (see esp. Chapter II and Chapter III)

 

Utilitarianism (see esp. Chapter I and Chapter II)

 

For Rationalism

 

Leibniz            Theodicy

 

Kant                Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (see Section I)

 

 

For Nietzsche                     Beyond Good and Evil

 

For Schopenhauer          World as Will and Idea

 

For William James

from Principles of Psychology

The Will to Believe (see also William Clifford, The Ethics of Belief)

 

For Sartre               Existentialism and Humanism