December 1
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Breakout
Post-Lecture Discussion
This class session is an opportunity to discuss your experiences putting the Stoics' approach to the good life into practice, along with the material from Monday's guest lecture on existentialism as a way of life.
Goals
Goals
- Clear up confusions about Stoicism, and critically engage with its strengths and weaknesses
- Learn about how putting the Stoics’ views into practice went for your peers and share feedback with one another
- Discuss Sartre’s approach to the good life following Monday’s guest lecture
- Consider both the differences and the points of connection between existentialist and ancient approaches to the good life
Before Class
- Consider the various conceptions of “freedom” we have come across in this course, starting with Callicles, followed by the views of the Daoists, the Stoics, and the Existentialists
- Consider the following two questions from the end of Prof. Leboeuf’s lecture on Monday: (1) Do you think that Sartre has a conception of human flourishing? What would it mean to live a good life according to him? (2) If “anguish” comes with living freely, can we say that Sartre’s existentialism is compatible with a conception of happiness?
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After Class
Further Resources
Further Resources
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