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Friday, April 26, 2013

Happiness 101 (PHIL 3160) texts

I'm in the process of finalizing text selections for Fall 2013. The theme of the course this time is meaning, and how the pursuit of happiness may achieve or fail to achieve it. Still open to suggestion or serendipitous discovery, but leaning to 

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UPDATE: We're definitely using Bok, Hecht, Flanagan, and Powers.  May just access Camus & Frankl via the web, for "free"... Still deciding about Lyubomirsky, still open to other possibilities. Maybe something on Epicurus... Other suggestions?

5 comments:

  1. Ooo! Another Hecht book! I did really enjoy Doubt--Looking forward to next semester, Dr. Oliver :)

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  2. Likewise, Kat! Happiness IS a choice, after all.

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  3. I felt like I commented on this earlier, but I just read the myth of sisyphus and I enjoyed it!

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  4. Have the selections been finalized yet? I would love to see an inclusion of Csikszentmihalyi!

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  5. Just four have been: Bok, Hecht, Flanagan, & Powers. We'll probably decide on a fifth text collectively, so you can make your case for Csikszentmihalyi. In any event, we'll talk about "flow" in various contexts (including Hecht). And maybe we'll devote at least one whole class to the concept, even if you can't persuade your classmates to vote Csik in.

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