Two topics are offered 2010/2011. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2010: Happiness, East and West. What is happiness? How can human beings achieve a balanced, healthy, fulfilling life? Classical thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Chuang Tzu, Augustine; Stoic, Epicurean, Confucian, Buddhist paths; comparison with contemporary happiness studies. Also offered as CAS PH 450. Topic for Spring 2011: Seminar centers on major theories and doctrines of deity, the holy, the sacred, the divine, in western religious thought. Equal emphasis on the history of these theories and on constructive contributions to their interpretation and construal for contemporary life and thought.