{"id":15222,"date":"2023-04-18T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/prompt-what-is-the-most-significant-obstacle-to-human-happiness-and-what-is-the-most-important-remedy-for-it\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:09:11","slug":"prompt-what-is-the-most-significant-obstacle-to-human-happiness-and-what-is-the-most-important-remedy-for-it","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/prompt-what-is-the-most-significant-obstacle-to-human-happiness-and-what-is-the-most-important-remedy-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt: What is the most significant obstacle to human happiness, and what is the most important remedy for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State your thesis clearly, and support your thesis<\/p>\n<div>using materials from four of the sources below. One of your sources<\/div>\n<div>must be the<\/div>\n<div>short story \u201cParker\u2019s Back,\u201d by Flannery O\u2019Connor (attached). Focus your essay<\/div>\n<div>on only<\/div>\n<div>one of the two characters, Parker or Sarah Ruth.<\/div>\n<div>1. Flannery O\u2019Connor,<\/div>\n<div>Parker\u2019s Back (required)<\/div>\n<div>2. C.S. Lewis,<\/div>\n<div>The Great Divorce<\/div>\n<div>3. Smith,<\/div>\n<div>Lost in Transition<\/div>\n<div>4. Aristotle,<\/div>\n<div>Nicomachean Ethics (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>5. Epicurus (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>6. Mill (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>7. Nozick (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>8. Kraut (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>9. Taylor (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>10.Steven Jensen,<\/div>\n<div>Living the Good Life<\/div>\n<div>11.Class Handout \u2013 \u201cContemplative Life as the Happiest\u201d (five-part life)<\/div>\n<div>12.St. Thomas Aquinas,<\/div>\n<div>Summa contra gentiles (in HCCRP),<\/div>\n<div>Summa theologiae<\/div>\n<div>(online)<\/div>\n<div>13.Besong, \u201cAquinas\u2019s Picture of Happiness\u201d<\/div>\n<div>14.St. Francis de Sales,<\/div>\n<div>Introduction to the Devout Life<\/div>\n<div>15.Molla and Guerriero,<\/div>\n<div>St. Gianna Molla<\/div>\n<div>Rubric<\/div>\n<div>\/10 pts Thesis (What, specifically, is your answer to the prompt?)<\/div>\n<div>\/30 pts Evidence (Why should someone believe your thesis is correct?<\/div>\n<div>What reasons can you give?)<\/div>\n<div>State your thesis clearly, and support your thesis<\/div>\n<div>using materials from four of the sources below. One of your sources<\/div>\n<div>must be the<\/div>\n<div>short story \u201cParker\u2019s Back,\u201d by Flannery O\u2019Connor (attached). Focus your essay<\/div>\n<div>on only<\/div>\n<div>one of the two characters, Parker or Sarah Ruth.<\/div>\n<div>1. Flannery O\u2019Connor,<\/div>\n<div>Parker\u2019s Back (required)<\/div>\n<div>2. C.S. Lewis,<\/div>\n<div>The Great Divorce<\/div>\n<div>3. Smith,<\/div>\n<div>Lost in Transition<\/div>\n<div>4. Aristotle,<\/div>\n<div>Nicomachean Ethics (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>5. Epicurus (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>6. Mill (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>7. Nozick (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>8. Kraut (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>9. Taylor (in HCCRP)<\/div>\n<div>10.Steven Jensen,<\/div>\n<div>Living the Good Life<\/div>\n<div>11.Class Handout \u2013 \u201cContemplative Life as the Happiest\u201d (five-part life)<\/div>\n<div>12.St. Thomas Aquinas,<\/div>\n<div>Summa contra gentiles (in HCCRP),<\/div>\n<div>Summa theologiae<\/div>\n<div>(online)<\/div>\n<div>13.Besong, \u201cAquinas\u2019s Picture of Happiness\u201d<\/div>\n<div>14.St. Francis de Sales,<\/div>\n<div>Introduction to the Devout Life<\/div>\n<div>15.Molla and Guerriero,<\/div>\n<div>St. Gianna Molla<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State your thesis clearly, and support your thesis using materials from four of the sources below. One of your sources must be the short story \u201cParker\u2019s Back,\u201d by Flannery O\u2019Connor (attached). Focus your essay on only one of the two characters, Parker or Sarah Ruth. 1. Flannery O\u2019Connor, Parker\u2019s Back (required) 2. C.S. 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