Happiness

Outline

1. The Good Life
1. The Stoics 
1. The School of Life - Stoicism (YouTube) (Video)
2. Notes (PowerPoint)
3. The Enchiridion
4. Optional: Philosophy Tube - Stoics (YouTube)
5. Optional: Epictetus - What We Can Control (Reading)
6. Optional: Seneca - The Proper Use of Time (Reading)
2. Haidt - Ch 5 - The Pursuit of Happiness
1. Optional: Thunk - Game Design and the Hedonic Treadmill (YouTube)
2. Optional: Flow - Happiness in Super Focus (YouTube)
3. Epicurus
1. Pursuit of Happiness - Epicurus (Reading)
2. Notes (PowerPoint)
4. Haidt - Ch 10 - Happiness Comes From Between
5. Happiness Project (Link) 
6. Aristotle
1. Pursuit of Happiness - Aristotle (Reading)
2. The School of Life - Aristotle (YouTube)  (Video)
3. Notes (PowerPoint)
2. Friendship
1. Nichomachean Ethics Discussion
2. Optional: Malafarina - Critique of Nichomachean Ethics (Essay)
3. Love
1. The Happiness Hypothesis - Chapter 6 - Love & Attachment
2. What Is Love?  (PowerPoint)
3. 500 Days of Summer
1. Optional - Movies I Love And So Can You (YouTube) (Video)

People & Terms

• Stoicism
• Epictetus
• Seneca the Younger
• Marcus Aurelius
• Covey
• Circle of Concern  / Circle of Influence
• David Foster Wallace
• Haidt
• 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
• Epicurus
  • Pleasure Gardens
  • Hedonism
  • Unnecessary vs. Necessary Desires
  • Crass Hedonism
  • Ataraxia
  • Conscious Reflection
  • Commune
• Aristotle
  • Background
  • Lyceum
  • Eudaimonia
  • Arete
  • Virtue
  • Golden Mean
  • Vice
  • Nichomachean Ethics

  
  
• Friendship
• Utility, Pleasure, Complete
• Love
• Eros
• Philia
• Agape
• Idealization
• Symposium
• Aristophanes
• Socrates
• Alcibiades