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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” dealing with different conceptions of the good life. The syllabus was:
- Introduction
- Harmony, Inner and Outer (Plato, Lao Tzu)
- Self-Actualization (Montaigne, Nietzsche)
- Detachment (Epictetus, the Buddha)
- Duty (Confucius, Kant, Montaigne)
- Pleasure (Callicles, Epicurus)
- The Conquest of Nature (Ayn Rand)
- The Spiritual Life (William James)
I have tapes of all eight lectures, and the sound quality so far seems pretty good. I will put them online in 16 parts. As usual, the students’ questions were often not caught by the microphone, so they were edited out. But my answers make clear what the questions were.
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Greg,
These lectures are fantastic. It’s amazing to think how much money I wasted on several useless philosophy classes when it would have been so much the money better spent to have paid for your class if you were a professor. Your writings may have caused me to go a little crazy at times, but these lectures have surely made me a bunch better man.
Thank you. I am glad you find some value in these.
interesting talk
are you going to upload to youtube?
Interesting suggestion