Course Syllabus
Instructor: Dr. Albert Hernandez
Course Description/Synopsis:
This course provides a historical examination of key concepts, major questions, and practices about humanity’s search for happiness from the Hellenistic-Roman period of Antiquity through the Early Christian and Medieval periods. The content of the course centers on the role of Classical moral philosophy and Early Christian theology in the formulation of eudaemonic theories about the problem of happiness in relation to metaphysical assumptions and religious influences as well as to socio-cultural, political, and institutional norms that shaped Christian notions of human purpose and potential.
The legacies of these ancient ideas on the development of modern assumptions about happiness and human flourishing will be discussed towards the end of the course, but these later, modern transformations of eudaemonic theories are not central to the content of this class.
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