Personal Philosophy Essay
Directions:
Your paper is to include an introduction to the topics and a conclusion.
Transition to each part of the paper and question without using numerals or letters.
Topic: The Good Life
Address both topics in this essay in paragraph form.
Write in the first person. Third person-pronouns are appropriate for references to the philosopher(s) with whom you can identify.
1. What are your ideas about the “good life”/happiness?
2. a. Name the philosopher (or philosophers) who seem to describe your ideas?
(Please focus and review Soccio p.518-553. will be attached later attached)
b. Explain why you seem to identify with this philosopher (or philosophers).
Course contains:
Below is the syllabus of this course to give you an idea about what we have studied in this course. Also, to know more about names and ides about those philosophers that we have in this course too:
Syllabus:
Chap. 01: Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom
Chap. 02: The Asian Sages: Lao-tzu, Confucius, Buddha
Chap. 03: The Sophist: Protagoras
Chap. 04: The Wise Man: Socrates
Chap. 05: The Philosopher-King: Plato
Chap. 05: The Philosopher-King: Plato continued
Chap. 06: The Naturalist: Aristotle
Chap. 07: The Stoic: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
Chap. 08: The Scholar: Thomas Aquinas
Chap. 09: The Rationalist: René Descartes
Chap. 12: The Utilitarian’s: Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
Chap. 18: Philosophy as a Way of Life (Philosophical Advocates)
All of above subjects can be found in the below book:
Soccio, Douglas J. Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy. 8th ed. Cengage, 2013
Technical Points:
Due Date: 3 days from now