PHIL 238 - (P) Wealth and the Human Good

Institution:

University of Scranton

Subject:

Philosophy

Description:

What is wealth? Is wealth the key to happiness? Is it possible for individual human beings and human society to flourish without wealth? What does it mean to say that the measure of success in contemporary consumer society is wealth? These and other questions related to life in modern capitalist commercial society will be addressed in the course.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.scranton.edu

Phone Number:

(570) 941-7400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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