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PHL 2250 - Philosophy of Happiness

Credits: 4
What is happiness? What makes people happy? Can one person make another person happy? How can anyone judge whether someone is happy? These are perennial questions not only for inquisitive minds but also for thoughtful human beings. Faced with economic, environmental, and ethical challenges, people should wonder whether happiness can be understood mainly and mostly in terms of pleasure, power, and profit. Focusing on the connection between a happy life and a virtuous life, this course explores how happiness can be defined, asks whether it can be measured, and examines the clearly indispensable but often overestimated role that it plays in a flourishing life.  Area Requirement for Philosophy:  Ethics
Prerequisite(s): PHL 1000   or PHL 1100  or PHL 1200  
Fulfills: E in LS Core