PHILOS 2N03 Lecture 2: Week 2 – The Good Life
5 Oct 2021
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Week 2 the good life & honesty and trust. Solomon: strategic planning - for the good life. We have career planning, but (aside from majoring in philosophy; wink) business persons do not have life planning -> but, we cannot truly make a plan for the former without making a plan for the latter. Planning does not do away with chance, but manages it by anticipating potential responses to contingencies: life management: know your needs, desires, ideals, values, principles and aspirations, prioritize them, progressively clarify and (if need be) revise them. People are good at self-deception: career management: what activity best fits with or most fully expresses (1) and plan accordingly -> irrespective of money, power, fame, etc. The good judge: having prudence (phronesis) and temperance (will power) to judge situations aright and perform what they demand in order to achieve the the highest good achievable in action" (90) happiness. Satis state where it is enough.
