Big Questions 1, Part 1: What is 'The Good'?

Welcome to the first day of "What Makes a Life Good?" In this four part course, Professor Meghan Sullivan will walk you through this big philosophical question. Each of the four course pages will contain a lecture, a case study, and an optional activity. The lectures will introduce you to the big ideas. The case studies will show you how these ideas relate to real world scenarios. And the activities will help you think about how to apply them in your own life. To figure out what makes a life good, we first have to take a moment to define goodness. In today's class, we'll discuss classical theories of goodness and ask what they can tell us about living good lives.

In this lecture, Dr. Meghan Sullivan introduces the basic philosophical concepts that we need to answer the question "What makes a life good?"

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