A Good Life Compass: Learning from Classical India

Harvard FAS

How do we integrate our (often) competing academic, personal, political, and social ambitions into a good life?What is a good life? How does it relate to personal happiness; to being a good friend, partner, citizen, or leader? What is the relative value of justice, citizenship, loyalty, friendship, personal profit, and pleasure? How do we make reasoned choices when these “values” conflict? What are our sources and models for such reasoning? When is such reasoning “ethical”? Are we all subject…