Happiness Review

Test #3: Happiness - Review

Readings & Videos

• Some questions will be drawn directly from content in the "Classical Philosophy" assignments
• Most of this we covered in class, but there *will* be content we did not discuss on the test.

Haidt

• Confabulation 
• Progress Principle
• Adaptation Principle
• H = S + C + V 
• Flow
• Maximizers vs. Satisficers
• Attachment (Secure, Avoidant, Resistant)
• Job vs. Career vs. Calling 
• Vital Engagement
• Cross-Level Coherence
• Caritas
• Agape

Stoics

• Figures:  Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius
• View on Control
• Stephen Covey:  Circle of Control / Circle of Influence
• Living a Model Life / Virtues
• Strategies for Happiness
• David Foster Wallace - "This is Water" - Main Ideas

Epicureans

• Figures: Epicurus
• Pleasure Gardens
• Hedonism
• Three Strategies
• Unnecessary vs. Necessary Desires
• Crass Hedonism
• Ataraxia
• Fear of Death
• Conscious Reflection
• Friendship
• Communes

Aristotle

• Background
• Lyceum
• Eudaimonia
• Arete
• Virtue
• Ex: Temperance, Virtue
• Golden Mean
• Vice
• Doing The Right Thing / Practice
• Nichomachean Ethics
• Aristotle on Friendship

Films

• Reign Over Me
• 500 Days of Summer