Spring 2025
Achieving Excellence
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THE VIEW FROM HERE
The Good Life
During a recent session of REL540: Happiness, Fana, Eudaemonia, Nirvana, students and Principal Bill Rawson ’71 — who announced his decision to retire in June 2026 — engaged in a lively conversation about the roles of happiness and purpose in our lives.“
We were discussing whether happiness or purpose should be our main goal,” Religion, Ethics and Philosophy Instructor Peter Dziedzic says. “That is, should we set happiness a sour ultimate goal, or should we aim for a life of purpose, and happiness comes as a result of this quest?”
Through thought-provoking readings, reflective writing and activities, Dziedzic aims to equip students with the tools to cultivate a deeper, more resilient understanding of happiness.
“Rather than telling students what to think,” Dziedzic says, “we expose them to a range of different ways of thinking about questions like these so they can continue discovering their own senses of self, community and meaning atExeter and beyond.”