Pursuing The Good Life

What does it mean to live a good life? This is the question that every self-reflecting person must eventually ask, and it requires us to answer several related questions: How should I live? Whom and how should I love? What claims do family, friends, and country have on me? What is the source of meaning, purpose, happiness, and transcendence? How should I deal with suffering, injustice, and my own mortality? We will explore profound attempts to answer these questions from many different philosophic and literary perspectives, faith traditions, cultures, and time periods.