This course offers honours students an intensive study of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
- Teacher: Matthew Dinan
This is a course about the most important question: “What constitutes a good life?” This question has occupied—even obsessed—some of the most thoughtful people in human history. Many of them have reflected upon the good life, and the quest to find it, with a breadth of inquiry that mimics the diversity of human experience. We will thus explore texts from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, theological, literary, and psychological.
Along the way we will come to appreciate how many of the other questions we ask—about justice, divinity, nature, or the self—matter to us only insofar as answering them would help us understand how best to live.
- Teacher: Matthew Dinan
- Teacher: Andrew Moore
This course will explore the nature of human community and the question of justice. Themes to be addressed will include an individual's responsibility to others, the role of community in promoting human happiness, the manner in which we are both limited and fulfilled by justice, and the relationship of justice and law.
- Teacher: Christine Cornell
- Teacher: Andrew Moore