PHIL 370 - God and Human Happiness

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: As Needed

Studies in selected philosophers, religious thinkers and religious texts where a primary concern is the nature of human happiness and its relationships to beliefs about God or the ultimately real. Texts may include works from such philosophers as Plato or Nietzsche, such authors as Tolstoy or O’Connor and such texts as the New Testament or the Bhagavad Gita. Issues may include the relative importance of moral or non-moral goodness for happiness, the nature of God or ultimate reality as it bears upon human life and destiny and related issues. Position paper required.

Crosslisted With: RLST 370