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Dec 21, 2024
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LAS 445 - Good Life: Fate and Responsibility 3 Credit Hours
What are the roles of fate and responsibility for “the good life?” How does deliberation allow us to grapple with the determinants of fate and accept responsibility for our actions? In this seminar, we will answer those questions through the lenses of both science and literature. After developing a framework for approaching “the good life” through a close reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, we will explore the issues of fate and responsibility in genetics and in works of poetry and short fiction. In the final weeks of class, student will analyze the value of both science and literature for “the good life” and anticipate where issues of fate and responsibility will surface in their lives and intended careers.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing.
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