The Conduct of Life in Western and Eastern Philosophy

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Extended take-home examination; take-home exam not administered by HLS A study of approaches in the philosophical traditions of the West and the East to the conduct of life. Philosophical ethics has often been understood as meta-ethics: the development of a method of moral inquiry or justification. Here we focus instead on what philosophy has to tell us about the first-order question: How should we live our lives? This year a major concern will be the…