The Great Ideas

Topic 2a. The marks of a happy man, the quality of a happy life

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AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon [351-474], 55d-57b

SOPHOCLES

Antigone [582-624], 136b-c; [1151-1171] 140d-141a

EURIPIDES

Bacchantes [878-911], 347b-c

Hecuba [619-628], 358a

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PLATO

Gorgias, 284a-285a

Philebus, 614b-d; 617d-618a; 635b-639a,c

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ARISTOTLE

Ethics, BK I, CH 7 [1097b15-1098a19], 342c-343c; CH 8 [1098b20-29], 344a-b; CH 9 [1099b33]-CH 10 [1101b20]. 345b-346c; BK X, CH 7-8, 431d-434a

Politics, BK VII, CH 8 [1328a37-b2], 532d; CH 13 [1331b24-1332a27], 536b-537a

Poetics, CH 6 [1450a15-20], 684c

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LUCRETIUS

Nature of Things, BK II [1-61], 15a-d

EPICTETUS

Discourses, BK III, CH 24, 203c-210a

AURELIUS

Meditations, BK V, SECT 8, 269d-270b; SECT 34, 273c; SECT 36, 273d; BK IX, SECT 2, 291c-d

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TACITUS

Annals, BK VI, 91c

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AUGUSTINE

City of God, BK V, PREF, 207b; BK VIII, CH 8, 270a-d; BK X, CH 1-3, 298b,d-301a; BK XII, CH 1, 342b,d-343c; BK XIX, CH 13-14, 519a-520d; CH 20, 523d-524a; CH 26, 528d-529a

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AQUINAS

Summa Theologica, PART I-II, QQ 2-5, 615c-643d passim, esp Q 2, A 4, ANS, 618a-d, Q 5, A 8, 642d-643d;

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AQUINAS continued

Summa Theologica, Q 84, A 4, ANS, 176d-178a

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RABELAIS

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK I, 65c-66b

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MONTAIGNE

Essays, 26d-28a; 107d-108c; 146b-c

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SHAKESPEARE

Richard II, ACT I, SC III [275-303], 326c-d

Merchant of Venice, ACT 1, SC II [1-10], 408b

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DESCARTES

Discourse, PART III, 49d-50b

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MILTON

L'Allegro, 17a-2la

Il Penseroso, 21a, 25a

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PASCAL

Pensees, 169-170, 203a

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ROUSSEAU

Inequality, 351c-352a

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KANT

Pure Reason, 236b-237c

Practical Reason, 298c-d; 345a-c

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MILL

Liberty, 293d-297b

Representative Government, 347d-348b

Utilitarianism, 448a; 450b-c; 451a-b

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BOSWELL

Johnson, 144d-145a; 164d

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HEGEL

Philosophy of Right, INTRO, par 20, 171;

ADDITIONS, 15, 118d

Philosophy of History, INTRO, 165a-b

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GOETHE

Faust, PART II [3431-3458], 84a-b

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MELVILLE

Moby Dick 204b-205a; 287b, 288a; 360a-351a

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TOLSTOY

War and Peace, BK VI, 259b-260a; BK XI, 480a-482b

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DOSTOEVSKY

Brothers Karamazov, BK V, 130a-136b; BK VI, 148d-150d; 153d-157b; BK VI, 190c-191a,c

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