LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Week 12: VocationOne of the quotes that stood out to me from this week’s readings was the quote: “If we can learn to read our own responses to our own…Nov 1, 20233Nov 1, 20233
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Week 10: Love and The Good LifeIn her book All About Love — New Visions, bell hooks talks about the importance of having a definition for the term love that encompasses…Oct 18, 20231Oct 18, 20231
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23“We do not exist independently” — Thich Nhat Hanh“We do not exist independently” (Thich Nhat Hanh 14). This quote summarizes what Thich Nhat Hanh preaches in chapter one of his book The…Oct 11, 20231Oct 11, 20231
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Montaigne “Of Experience”In his excerpt Of Experience from his Essais, Montaigne argues that through self-exploration we are able to “arrive at some tentative…Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Frankl and James on the meaning of lifeThe question of what makes life meaningful is probably one of the hardest questions to answer. Everyone has a different answer depending on…Sep 27, 20233Sep 27, 20233
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Week 6: EducationIn this week’s text Blum talked about why students hate school so much. She discovered that it’s not the student’s fault that they don’t…Sep 22, 20231Sep 22, 20231
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Rioting as an action against opressionIn this week’s text Tessman as well as MacDonald and Symmonds expressed how oppressed groups sometimes have to resort to actions that…Sep 14, 20233Sep 14, 20233
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23“After all, what point is there in ‘being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?’”“After all, what point is there in ‘being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?’” (Irvine). Although I do not agree with everything…Sep 7, 20234Sep 7, 20234
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Xunzi and Human NatureXunzi argues that human nature is bad and that to become a good person, one needs to have proper models and teachers to teach one how to be…Aug 30, 20233Aug 30, 20233
LaurainThe Good Life Fall ‘23Aristotle’s concept of happinessFor Aristotle, happiness wasn’t just a state or a feeling. For him happiness meant acting in a way that is guided by reason. If this…Aug 24, 20233Aug 24, 20233