Discerning the Good
What is truly good?
If everything you own falls away, what remains that is truly yours? The learner learns the difference between pleasure, advantage, success, and moral goodness. This phase lays the foundation: virtue is the only thing that makes a human being truly good.
Core ability: Distinguish pleasure, advantage, success, and reputation from moral goodness.
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Lesson 1 · 15 min
What Do We Call Good?
Examine how people confuse 'good' with pleasant, successful, popular, or profitable.
Lesson 2 · 15 min
Virtue as the Only Good
Understand why the Stoics saw virtue not as one value among others, but as the criterion of a good life.
Lesson 3 · 15 min
Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Character
Turn 'a good life' from a moment of happiness into a form of life in which judgment, choice, and conduct beat together.
Test your judgment by the four virtues.