Assignment task:
Students will prepare an essay (1100 words, +/- 100 words, excluding Title and Reference pages).
Choose a topic from the list below:
- Argue why Josef Pieper conception of leisure is the best one in modernity, or instead why it might be a limited conception in comparison to another theory of leisure.
- Argue why a life is better with leisure today, and why for the classical Greeks, an absence of leisure meant an absence of a happy life.
- Argue why John Dewey and modern liberal thinkers did not agree with Aristotle's ideas on education or on leisure generally.
- Argue how modern psychological conceptions of happiness and the classical idea of happiness in Aristotle differ.
- What was the "Greek Leisure Ideal" and how would it manifest today according to Sebastian De Grazia? What happened to it?
- Argue why the liberal arts are so important in education and leisure, and explain its Greek origin and how that is received today.