PHIL 2-ST (Special Topics) – Philosophy and the Search for a Good Life – 4 Units

Studies the meaning and nature of a good life through readings in philosophy.

https://catalog.callutheran.edu/courses/PHIL2ST

Readings have included:

BOOKS

PRIMARY SOURCES

  1. (A) Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Books I and II. Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. . Translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., Inc., 2014. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=709978.
  2. (JB) Bentham, Jeremy. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. [Place of publication not identified]: Batoche Books, 1999. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3117711Links to an external site..
  3. (HI) Imler, Henry, ed. Sapientia. Victoria, BC: BCcampus/TRU, 2019. https://pressbooks.pub/sapientia/
  4. (SK) Kierkegaard, Sören. Kierkegaard’s Writings, XVI: Works of Love. Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton University Press, 1995. https://callutheran.on.worldcat.org/oclc/840416944Links to an external site.
  5. (JM) McLaughlin, Jeff. The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy. Victoria, BC: BCcampus/TRU, 2017. https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/classicreadings/
  6. (P) Plato’s Dialogues (see syllabus schedule)

SECONDARY SOURCES

  1. (DC/MC) Collins, Drew, and Matthew Croasmun, eds. What Is the Good Life?: Perspectives from Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2023. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=30881125Links to an external site..
  2. (ADB) De Botton, Alain. The Consolations of Philosophy. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. Accessed October 21, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central.
  3. (DF) Fuchs, Doris, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Michael Maniates, Sylvia Lorek, and Antonia Graf. Consumption Corridors Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=7245667Links to an external site..
  4. (CG) Gregory, Chris, and Altman, Jon, eds. The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times : Ethnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy. Canberra: ANU Press, 2018. Accessed September 5, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/callutheran/reader.action?docID=5378039&ppg=31Links to an external site.
  5. (AH) Hardon, Anita. Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020. https://callutheran.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1243550824Links to an external site. https://chemicalyouth.org/#/Links to an external site.
  6. (WI) Irvine, William B. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008. Accessed August 17, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/callutheran/reader.action?docID=415040Links to an external site.
  7. (CJ) Jeske, Christine. The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa. Ithaca [New York]: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501752537Links to an external site..
  8. (SK) Krishek, Sharon. “Love as the End of Human Existence.” In Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life, edited by Stephen Minister, J. Aaron Simmons, and Michael Strawser, 3–15. Indiana University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zxxxq2.5.Links to an external site.
  9. (WK) KAUFMANN, WALTER, and Alexander Nehamas. “THE DEATH OF GOD AND THE REVALUATION.” In Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, REV-Revised., 96–118. Princeton University Press, 1974. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cg9cm.12.Links to an external site.
  10. (CP) Payne, Clare. One: Valuing the Single Life. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2018. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2232284.
  11. (JR) Rubin, Jeffrey B. The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity, and Spirituality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10579248Links to an external site..
  12. (DAS) Storm, D. Anthony. D. Anthony Storm’s Commentary on Kierkegaard. Available at http://www.sorenkierkegaard.org/. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. [i.e. date of access]. http://sorenkierkegaard.org/works-of-love.htmlLinks to an external site.
  13. (RS) Skidelsky, Robert, and Edward Skidelsky. How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life. New York: Random House Publisher Services, 2012. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5337706Links to an external site..
  14. (CT) Taylor, Chloë, and Hasana Sharp, eds. Feminist Philosophies of Life. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. https://www.deslibris.ca/ID/450241Links to an external site..
  15. (HDT) Thoreau, Henry David. Life without Principle. South Bend: Infomotions, Inc., 2000. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3314910Links to an external site.. https://callutheran.on.worldcat.org/oclc/927361123Links to an external site.

ARTICLES

  1. Michalos, Alex C., and P. Maurine Hatch. “Good Societies, Financial Inequality and Secrecy, and a Good Life: From Aristotle to Piketty.” Applied Research in Quality of Life : The Official Journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies 15, no. 4 (2019): 1005–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09717-0Links to an external site..
  2. (AK) Kukita A., Nakamura J., and Csikszentmihalyi M. “How Experiencing Autonomy Contributes to a Good Life.” Journal of Positive Psychology, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1818816Links to an external site..
  3. (AN) Nierenberg, Andrew A. “The Importance of Social Fitness for a Good Life.” Psychiatric Annals53, no. 8 (2023): 342. https://doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20230728-03Links to an external site.. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2850722174?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:wcdiscovery&accountid=9839&sourcetype=Scholarly%20JournalsLinks to an external site.
  4. (GB) Beckles-Raymond, Gabriella. “‘Liv Good’: Dreaming the Intersectionally Just Good Life.” Feminist Review137, no. 1 (2024): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789241249469Links to an external site..
  5. (GC) Grzegorz Cebrat. “How to Write an American Death Notice: Some Guidelines for Novice Obituarists.” Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition2, no. 2 (2016).
  6. “Life Without Principle” Henry David Thoreau https://www.thoreau-online.org/life-without-principle.htmlLinks to an external site.
  7. Pope, Sara Nicole. “Authenticity as Experimentality in Search of the Good Life.” Order No. 31243582, Fordham University, 2024. https://ezproxy.callutheran.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/authenticity-as-experimentality-search-good-life/docview/3067126753/se-2.
  8. Nietzsche –Revaluation of all Values
  9. Casey, Emma. “Working Class Women, Gambling and the Dream of Happiness.” Feminist Review, no. 89 (2008): 122–37.Download Casey, Emma. “Working Class Women, Gambling and the Dream of Happiness.” Feminist Review, no. 89 (2008): 122–37.
  10. https://avatarms.com/why-good-people-have-work-accidents/Links to an external site.
  11. Why Good People Have Work Accidents https://avatarms.com/why-good-people-have-work-accidents/Links to an external site.
  12. NLRB Statistics on Illnesses, Injuries and Fatalities at Work in the US https://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm#:~:text=There%20were%205%2C486%20fatal%20work,per%20100%2C000%20FTE%20in%202021Links to an external site..