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PROFESSOR: So where are we?
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Well it's the closing lecture.
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When we first started gathering
in this room three
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and a bit months ago, there was
a photo essay in the Yale
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Daily News with snow
everywhere.
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On January 13, when our second
meeting began, campus looked
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like this, and this, and this,
and this, and this.
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Whereas exactly three months
later, the Yale Daily News ran
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a photo essay with this, and
this, and this, and this, and
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Well we started with Plato's
Republic and we ended with
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Plato's Republic.
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The seasons changed.
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We, in some ways, performed an
intricate reading of one of
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the most foundational
works in the western
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philosophical tradition.
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So what I want to do in today's
lecture is to take you
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through the course, using
four different paths.
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The first thing I want to do is
to think through how it is
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that the course goals
were realized.
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The goals of helping you think
about how material that you
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learned in a lecture in
Linsley-Chit might relate to
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material that you learned to a
lecture in WLH and how that
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might relate to thoughts that
you had in the library or
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ideas that came up in the
context of conversations in
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your dining hall.
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The second path I want to take
through the course is to go
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back to the syllabus's initial
description of the three main
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course topics and to point out
to you the way in which your
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understanding of those
topics have changed.
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So we'll look at the question
of happiness and flourishing
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as we encountered it in the
works of Plato, of Epictetus,
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of Csikszentmihalyi.
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We'll look at the question of
morality as we encountered it
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in the works of Kant and Mill
and again in the context of
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And we'll think about the
questions of social legitimacy
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and political structures, both
within the context of Rawls
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and Nozick, Hobbes, and
in the context of
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the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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In the third part of the
lecture, I want to move to
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three themes, which I see as
having unified of course.
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Three central questions, each
of which provides us with a
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way of tracing a path
through our reading.
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The first, unsurprisingly,
is the theme of
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the multi-part soul.
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The second, the theme
of luck and control.
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