Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:55 PM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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Jeffery, how do you define "Eudaemonia"?
"Good Demonship," of course. Just kidding. Maybe "balanced happiness"?
Jeffery Hodges
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I like "balanced happiness". Sounds like that translation is influenced by Aristotle's notion of the proper mean, but is that how Aristotle uses the word?
I use these in class:
1) Good Spirit
2) Thriving.
3) Happiness (via Jefferson)
4) Property, i.e. possessing the resources that set you free to choose to love God back, which is sort of Locke via Jefferson (and maybe back again).
4) Happiness (via Aristotle, as in, "According to Aristotle, 'Plato's good man is the happy man.'")
But I don't know Greek; so, really, it's all Greek to me. Q.E.D.
Ah, yes, QED, Latin for quite easily done!
Jeffery Hodges
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