Prompt: What is the most significant obstacle to human happiness, and what is the most important remedy for it?

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 Discipline: Philosophy

State your thesis clearly, and support your thesis

using materials from four of the sources below. One of your sources
must be the
short story “Parker’s Back,” by Flannery O’Connor (attached). Focus your essay
on only
one of the two characters, Parker or Sarah Ruth.
1. Flannery O’Connor,
Parker’s Back (required)
2. C.S. Lewis,
The Great Divorce
3. Smith,
Lost in Transition
4. Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics (in HCCRP)
5. Epicurus (in HCCRP)
6. Mill (in HCCRP)
7. Nozick (in HCCRP)
8. Kraut (in HCCRP)
9. Taylor (in HCCRP)
10.Steven Jensen,
Living the Good Life
11.Class Handout – “Contemplative Life as the Happiest” (five-part life)
12.St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa contra gentiles (in HCCRP),
Summa theologiae
(online)
13.Besong, “Aquinas’s Picture of Happiness”
14.St. Francis de Sales,
Introduction to the Devout Life
15.Molla and Guerriero,
St. Gianna Molla
Rubric
/10 pts Thesis (What, specifically, is your answer to the prompt?)
/30 pts Evidence (Why should someone believe your thesis is correct?
What reasons can you give?)
State your thesis clearly, and support your thesis
using materials from four of the sources below. One of your sources
must be the
short story “Parker’s Back,” by Flannery O’Connor (attached). Focus your essay
on only
one of the two characters, Parker or Sarah Ruth.
1. Flannery O’Connor,
Parker’s Back (required)
2. C.S. Lewis,
The Great Divorce
3. Smith,
Lost in Transition
4. Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics (in HCCRP)
5. Epicurus (in HCCRP)
6. Mill (in HCCRP)
7. Nozick (in HCCRP)
8. Kraut (in HCCRP)
9. Taylor (in HCCRP)
10.Steven Jensen,
Living the Good Life
11.Class Handout – “Contemplative Life as the Happiest” (five-part life)
12.St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa contra gentiles (in HCCRP),
Summa theologiae
(online)
13.Besong, “Aquinas’s Picture of Happiness”
14.St. Francis de Sales,
Introduction to the Devout Life
15.Molla and Guerriero,
St. Gianna Molla

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