The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions

The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions « Series from 2011

Series from 2011

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What is the meaning of life? How do we find that meaning? To whom should we listen as we shape the path we will walk through the world? This course is an invigorating way to begin or continue your pursuit of these and other questions.

Embark on an intellectually gripping course that is every bit the equal of the monumental subject it sets out to explore.

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The Meaning of the Meaning of Life

The Bhagavad-Gita - Choice and Daily Life

The Bhagavad-Gita - Discipline and Duty

The Bhagavad-Gita - Union and Purpose

Aristotle on Life - The Big Picture

Aristotle - The Highest Good

Aristotle - The Happy Life

Job's Predicament - Life Is So Unfair

Job's Challenge - Who Are We?

Stoicism - Rationality and Acceptance

Human Finitude - The Epicurean Synthesis

Confucius - Order in the Cosmos and in Life

Daodejing - The Dao of Life and Spontaneity

Daodejing - The Best Life Is a Simple Life

Daodejing - Subtlety and Paradox

Zhuangzi on Daoism - Impermanence and Harmony

The Teachings of the Buddha

Santideva - Mahayana Buddhism

Santideva - Transforming the Mind

Zen - The Moon in a Dewdrop and Impermanence

Zen - Being-Time and Primordial Awakening

Taking Stock of the Classical World

Hume's Skepticism and the Place of God

Hume's Careless and Compassionate Vision

Kant - Immaturity and the Challenge to Know