Five Greats on the Good Life

Course Summary

A critical discussion of some key ideas from five classic texts:

• Plato’s Republic
• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
• Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism
• Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good

Notes will be provided.

Delivered by: Dr Douglas Adeney

Doug lectured in philosophy for many years at Melbourne State College and then the University of Melbourne. Since 2011 he has greatly enjoyed teaching numerous CAE philosophy courses. A non-academic friend of his was once asked by his wife what Doug did for a living. On hearing that he was a philosopher, she said ‘Oooh, he must be very intelligent … Or is he just weird?’ Come and decide for yourself.