A Good Life

Paper assignment— A Good Life
Component1: What are your concrete, positive goals in life—the achievements, activities, relationships, etc., that would allow you to look back and say that you lived well? What are your concrete, negative goals—the things you hope to avoid in life, which would cause you to say you had not lived well?

Component 2: Why are these your goals and your avoidances—for the sake of what highest “good,” value, or principle, do you what to achieve the former, and avoid the latter?

Component 3: Why have you chosen to live your life for the sake of this ultimate “good” in particular? Do you think everyone should live by the same value as yourself? Why or why not? Using/analyzing at least 2 quotations, explain the following theory and its core concepts (the most important concepts of the theory are listed below, though you are welcome to discuss more concepts in addition), and then use it to justify your answer:

• Seneca’s stoic philosophy: proper use of time, false vs. real “leisure.”