Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Murdoch, Mill, James, Baldwin, Du Bois "The Good Life Method" has a two-part way of getting readers to work on their own answers.

1. Courage Aristotle wrote about courage in the context of the willingness to sacrifice one’s life, such as in war. Whether he would recognize the virtue in our modern settings is hard to guess ...

A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander. Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devoted three books to ...

Plato’s pupil Aristotle agreed that science provides an account of what we see but diverged from his teacher’s argument that an unchanging ideal was the ... Aristotle’s 10 rules for a good life.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a classic work of philosophy, especially in virtue ethics. I hope this video can help guide you through the book and help you read it for yourself. Topics include ...

Plato's Academy was the precursor of the modern-day university, and his teachings, ... They provide universal principles that can act as guidelines for how to live a good life.

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

This course will take place virtually on Zoom. Participation in this course requires a device (ideally a computer or tablet, rather than a cell phone) with a camera and microphone in good working ...