AP/PHIL 1100
The Meaning of Life
Winter 2027
Topics
- Absurdity and the search for meaning
- Stoicism, suffering and pessimism
- Happiness, pleasure and life satisfaction
- Death, extinction and immortality
- Relations between happiness and moral goodness
Readings
- Required: Jennifer Wilson Mulnix and M. J. Mulnix, Happy Lives, Good Lives: Philosophical Examination (Broadview, 2015), as listed.
- Required: Lewis Vaughn and Jillian Scott McIntosh, Writing Philosophy: A Guide for Canadian Students, 2nd Canadian ed. (Oxford, 2012).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public course outline ↗Winter 2027
- A separate course kit is also required; its individual contents are not listed.