• 2484 views

    Lec 5 - The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony

    "Lec 5 - The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony"Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (PHIL 181) Professor Gendler begins with a poll of the class about whether students have elected to take a voluntary no-Internet pledge, and distributes stickers to help students who have made the pledge stick to their resolve. She then moves to the substantive part of the lecture, where she introduces Plato's analogy between the city-state and the soul and articulates Plato's response to Glaucon's challenge: justice is a kind of health--the well-ordered working of each of the parts of the individual—and thus is intrinsically valuable. This theme is explored further via psychological research on the 'progress principle' and 'hedonic treadmill,' as well as in an introduction to Aristotle's argument that reflection and reasoning are the function of humanity and thus the highest good. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Chapter 1. Internet Poll and Self-Regulation 05:57 - Chapter 2. Plato's Response to Glaucon's ChallengeChapter 28:57 - Chapter 3. Jonathan Haidt's Two Principles of Happiness 30:54 - Chapter 4. Aristotle on Happiness and Teleology Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2011.

    Video is embedded from external source so embedding is not available.

    Video is embedded from external source so download is not available.

    Here is the next lecture for this course

    Watch NEXT
    LECTURE
    2949 views     Lec23 - Waxing Occlusion in Harmony with Mandibular Movements

    Lec 6 -The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD

     43:58
    Lecture List | Course Details | Contents | Related

    No content is added to this lecture.

    Go to course:

    This video is a part of a lecture series from of Yale