PHIL 100 UCLA The Happy Warrior Article Questions Assignment
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Phil 100 – Fourth Assignment
Write a 3-5 page paper in response to the following prompt. Your script should be double
spaced, 12pt text.
The Happy Warrior: Why does Nussbaum want to pose questions to psychology
– what does she think the psychologists might have got wrong? Why is
Wordsworth’s happy warrior relevant to this? Do you agree with her critique? In
answering these questions, you should consider carefully what she says about the
concepts of pleasure, life-satisfaction, happiness and well-being, and their inter-
connections.
Before writing your paper, make sure you make a plan. Also, it may be helpful to review
the “writing a paper” checklist slide that we discussed in the first class (available on the
course site under files/slides and handouts).
Papers are due Sunday September 26th by 11:59pm. As always, you should explain the
ideas you are discussing in your own words. If you use someone else’s words in your
paper, be sure to indicate this clearly (e.g. with quotation marks), including a citation of
the original source of the text.