write about what “the Good” will be in your life. What is the end or goal that is the guiding principle that determines why you act as you do? How does this conception of the Good build on the ideas that we have discussed throughout the course?

write about what “the Good” will be in your life. What is the end or goal that is the guiding principle that determines why you act as you do? How does this conception of the Good build on the ideas that we have discussed throughout the course? Once you have a preliminary answer, ask yourself what problems there might be with your answer. For example, suppose you choose “wealth” as your goal. I imagine few people truly hold wealth as the final goal. Instead, they want certain goods that wealth usually brings: security, prestige, comfort, and so forth.
Your essay should be a minimum of 7 pages of content (do not count the title page or reference pages) using APA format. As in the previous essay, you must use standard 12 point font, 1 inch margins without extra spaces between paragraphs – papers that attempt to “pad” the length by changing margins/ font/ spacing/ etc, will lose points.
It must include substantive references to all the required readings for this course – Affluenza, The Consolations of Philosophy and Tolstoy’s Confession, and may also include references from other relevant readings or course lectures as well. It is not enough just to include a quote from each text; you must discuss the relationship between your ideas and those found in the texts. For full credit, you must discuss how your idea of the good goes along with, or contrasts with, the ideas presented by at least 3 of the 4 philosophers that we covered in Consolations (Socrates, Epicurus, Montaigne, and Nietzsche).

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