{"id":324,"date":"2020-08-08T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2021-08-19T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:14:04","slug":"course-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/course-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Course Vision<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Living a Good Life<\/i> will help you become someone who . . .<\/b>
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  • thinks deeply, critically, and in a historically informed way about your beliefs, values, and desires, and those of others<\/li>\n \t
  • knows how to investigate various philosophical traditions, appreciates their diversity and commonalities, and relates these views to your own life in ways that clarify what matters to you<\/li>\n \t
  • appreciates the importance of asking\u2014and trying to answer\u2014big philosophical questions like: \u201cWhat is the good life?\u201d, \u201cWhat should I value?\u201d, and \u201cWhat should I believe?\u201d<\/li>\n \t
  • understands the use and value of philosophy in helping you tackle some of the most practical and difficult questions and puzzles we all face\n<\/li>
  • has engaged in intentional exercises in self-cultivation<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Skills and Competencies<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Upon completion of Living a Good Life<\/i>, you will be able to . . .<\/b>
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    • consider how philosophical theories and texts may be put into practice and see the theoretical implications of philosophical practices<\/li>\n \t
    • learn to read and understand the content and relevance of classic texts of philosophy<\/li>\n \t
    • understand how to interpret and wrestle with philosophical ideas in classical texts on your own<\/li>\n \t
    • engage in fruitful dialogue: to hear\/read what others say\/write accurately, to ask probing and critical questions, and to be charitable and gently critical\n<\/li>\n
    • know what it\u2019s like to do experiments in living<\/li>\n
    • take steps toward developing and acquiring various character strengths and habits that matter to you<\/li>
    • continue to apply skills of self-work and further develop serious practices of critical self-reflection<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Knowledge and Understanding<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Upon completion of Living a Good Life<\/i>, you will be able to . . .<\/b>
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      • recognise that assumptions about the good life are connected with assumptions about human nature\/psychology and even metaphysical assumptions<\/li>\n \t
      • know how to use philosophical resources to raise and respond to questions about the good life<\/li>\n \t
      • understand how different thinkers and cultures have approached the topic of the good life over history<\/li>\n \t
      • show a familiarity with the views of four different schools of philosophy and understand how they differ\n<\/li>\n
      • know how to critically engage with these schools, and know how to put them in conversation with one another<\/li>\n
      • be aware of the concept of moral psychology and how assumptions about human nature are intertwined with views of how to live<\/li>
      • know the differences and relations between philosophical and psychological approaches to living well<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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        Course Vision Living a Good Life will help you become someone who . . . thinks deeply, critically, and in a historically informed way about your beliefs, values, and desires, and those of others knows how to investigate various philosophical traditions, appreciates their diversity and commonalities, and relates these views […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}