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Happiness
GENED 1025

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Description

Should we pursue happiness, and if so, what is the best way to do it?  

This course will critically assess the answers to these questions given by thinkers from a wide variety of different places, cultures, and times, including Stoicism, Epicureanism, Buddhism, Daoism, and contemporary philosophy, psychology, and economics.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Course Component Lecture
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Course Requirements Course open to Undergraduate Students Only
Exam/Final Deadline Dec. 15, 2026
General Education Ethics and Civics
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution None
Course Level Primarily for Undergraduate Students