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The Good Life: Learning from Classical India 
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The Good Life: Learning from Classical India
 at 
Harvard University 
Overview

This course is devoted to investigating how classical South Asian intellectuals wrestled with such questions and to thinking critically about their responses to them in the context of our own lives.

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2,040

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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UG Certificate

The Good Life: Learning from Classical India
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Harvard University 
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  • Earn a certificate after completion of the course
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Harvard University 
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  • What is a good life How does it relate to personal happiness, or to being a good ruler, citizen, friend, or lover What is the relative value of justice, citizenship, loyalty, friendship, personal profit, and pleasure How do we make reasoned choices when these values are in conflict What are our sources and models for such reasoning When is such reasoning ethical Are we all subject to the same ethical norms Should we be Is the good life the same for everyone Questions such as these were of enduring concern for philosophers, political theorists, literary theorists, and theorists of pleasure in classical India
  • This course is devoted to investigating how classical South Asian intellectuals wrestled with such questions and to thinking critically about their responses to them in the context of our own lives
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The Good Life: Learning from Classical India
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Philosophy

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The Good Life: Learning from Classical India
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Harvard University 
Faculty details

Parimal Patil
Designation : Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University

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