Philosophy / Philosophy 0375 · Capstone · 2–3 minutes
The Good Life, Four Ways
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Four traditions' answers to the course's oldest practical question—what makes a life go well—compared where they converge and where they genuinely split.
The four answers. Confucius: the junzi, character cultivated through ritual and role—excellence shown in how one eats, mourns, serves, and speaks. Daoism: accord with the dao through wu wei—effective action without forcing, power through yielding, the water that carves canyons. Ubuntu: personhood constituted through community—a person is a person through other persons, identity built from relationship rather than owned in isolation. Aristotle: eudaimonia—flourishing as a whole life's shape, virtues as the traits that shape requires, built by habituation and displayed in activity.
Comparison flattens when it hurries—each tradition here is a library, not a bullet point. These entries are doors, numbered so you can always walk back through them.
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