Middlebury

PSCI0288A-W15

Love and Friendship

Love and Friendship in Literature and Philosophy
Love and friendship are important topics for understanding the best human life and its relationship to the best regime. We will study Plato’s Phaedrus and Symposium; Aristotle’s Ethics; essays on friendship by Montagne and Bacon; Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and another play; Rousseau’s Emile; a Jane Austen novel, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. We will also watch two movies: The Philadelphia Story and Anna Karenina. (Not open to students who have taken FYSE 1030) (Political Theory)/
Course Reference Number (CRN):
11374
Subject Code:
PSCI
Course Number:
0288
Section Identifier:
A

Course

PSCI 0288

All Sections in Winter 2015

Winter 2015

PSCI0288A-W15 Lecture (Dry)