The seminar will be based on commenting excerpts from primary texts. Students will be asked to send a short reflection of chosen passages on weekly basis.

1. Care for soul (Plato: Apology, Phaedo)

2. Soul and body (Plato: Phaedo)

3. Power of rhetoric, appetites and pleasures vs. reason and moderation (Plato: Gorgias)

4. What is happiness? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics I)

5. What is virtue? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics II)

6. What is a deliberation? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics III)

7. What is pleasure? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics VII, X)

8. Pleasure as the highest good (Epicur: Letter to Menoeceus, Maxims: DL X 121-135, 139-154)

9. Stoics: Epiktetos (Enchyridion)

10. Hume: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (section 1-2)

11. Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction, 1st part

12. Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 2nd part