(in Polish) In Pursuit of a Good Life

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Course ID:	3501-PGL19-S-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	(unknown)
Name in Polish:	In Pursuit of a Good Life
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:	Courses in foreign languages General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective seminars general courses
Prerequisites (description):	Successfully completed basic ethics course; command of English sufficient for reading assigned materials and participation in class discussions.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The seminar will discuss the idea of a good life, that is life, which is good all things considered, taking account of all the values, circumstances, and considerations that matter in a particular person’s life or make their life worthy for them.
Full description:	The seminar will discuss the idea of a good life, that is a life, which is good all things considered, taking account of all the values, circumstances, and considerations that matter in a particular person’s life or make their life worthy for them. The topics to be discussed include, among others, happiness, desire satisfaction, goal achievement, the morally good, duty, virtues, and moral luck. On the ground of these ideas the concept of a good life will be stipulated in some detail, in particular, the impersonal perspective involved in an assessment of the worth of a person’s life all things considered.
Bibliography:	Wybrane rozdziały z poniższych prac/Selected chapters from the works below: J. Driver, Uneasy Virtue, Cambridge University Press, 2007 F. Feldman, Pleasure and the good life : concerning the nature, varieties and plausibility of hedonism. Clarendon, Oxford 2004. A. Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Harvard University Press, 1992 T. Hurka, Perfectionism, Oxford University Press, 1996 J. Kazez, The weight of things : philosophy and the good life. Blackwell, Oxford 2007. M.W. Martin, Happiness and the good life. Oxford University Press, New York 2012 D. Parfit, Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press 1984 R. Scruton, Sexual desire: a philosophical investigation. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1986 R. Teichmann, Nature, reason, and the good life : ethics for human beings. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011 B. Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Harvard University Press 1986.
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge. The After completing the course the student knows: - key problems and theoretical approaches to intention to the questions of a good life and its relation to the requirements of morality - the concept of a good life and the associated theoretical difficulties - main theoretical approaches to the question of a good life - influential publications on special a good life - links between classical and contemporary conceptions of a good life Skills. After completing the course the student can - critically analyse current philosophical ethics literature - identifies and interprets key problems, theses, and arguments found in the literature on a good life - formulates her/his own theoretical view of philosophical problems associated with the topic of good life Social competencies. After completing the course the student can: - collaborate with others and take different roles in collaboration - appreciate practical significance of the philosophical problems of a good life - appreciate the significance of theoretical reflection on morals for social practice
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	- activity in class (including: attendance, knowledge of the literature assigned, participation in discussions) – 30% of grade - preparation of a session report and its presentation in class – 30% - final essay on a topic discussed during the seminar– 40% of grade

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