Guided Response: In your reply posts, Read the philosophical text selected by your peer, then watch the video or listen to the audio of their recording. Describe how listening to the recording impacted your understanding of the text as opposed to just reading the text. Evaluate the connection between your peer’s philosophical text and their ethical belief or between their philosophical text and your ethical belief.

According to Aristotle, the ultimate end of all human activity is eudaimonia, which is often translated as happiness or flourishing or living well. He understood eudaimonia to consist (partly) in living virtuously, both practically and intellectually speaking. And a virtue for Aristotle is the proper use of reason, our distinctive trait as a species, in our thinking, acting, and feeling. This symposium asks you to think about the role that work (careers, jobs, gigs, side-hustles, etc.) ought ...

or the purpose of these questions, please understand "work" to mean paid employment. Is it possible to achieve eudaimonia without working? Think of the idle recipient of a significant trust-fund. How might working a lot interfere with a living life well? Think of the single-minded CEO or entrepreneur who works 80 hours a week or the person who struggles to get by with two part-time jobs and gigging on the side. Some people claim to really enjoy working long hours. Does this mean that, for...

In the ancient Greece of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, a “symposium” was a banquet held after a meal, an “after-party” of sorts that usually included drinking, dancing, recitals, and engaging conversations on the topics of the day. For our purposes in this course, the Symposium discussions will not involve dancing, recitals, or a banquet, but they will provide food for thought on current ethical issues and direct application of the ethical theory discussed in each of these weeks. Fo...

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