CC.112
Philosophy of Love
Spring 2013
Topics
- Introduction
- I. Romantic Longing
- II. Love as Duty and Intention
- III. Sexual Longing
- IV. Agape and Unconditional Love
- V. Eros, Sex and Power
- VI. Eros as Universal Longing
- VII. Friendship and Mutuality
Readings
- Johnson, Robert A. “The Narrative: How Tristan Was Born and Grew Up To Be a Great Knight.” In We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love . HarperOne, 2009, pp. 9–15. ISBN: 9780062504364.
- ———. “The Narrative: How Tristan Was Conquered by the Wine of Love.” In We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love . HarperOne, 2009, pp. 37–42. ISBN: 9780062504364.
- ———. “The Narrative: How Tristan and Iseult Wandered in the Enchanted Orchard.” In We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love . HarperOne, 2009, pp. 83–91. ISBN: 9780062504364.
- ———. “The Narrative: How Tristan Found Iseult of the White Hands and How Love and Death at Last Were Mixed.” In We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love . HarperOne, 2009, pp. 119–27. ISBN: 9780062504364.
- Peck, M. Scott. “Section II: Love.” In The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth . 25th anniversary ed. Touchstone, 2003. ISBN: 9780743243155.
- Kant, Immanuel. Selections from Lectures on Ethics . Translated by Louis Infield. Hackett Publishing Company, 1981. ISBN: 9780915144266.
- Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 9781482656008.
- Lee, Patrick, and Robert P. George. “What Sex Can Be: Self-Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union.” American Journal of Jurisprudence 42, no. 1 (1997):135-57.
- Olds, Sharon. “Sex Without Love.” In The Dead and the Living . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. ISBN: 9780394715636.
- Nygren, Anders. “Agape and Eros.” In Eros, Agape and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love . Edited by Alan Soble. Paragon House, 1998. ISBN: 9781557782786.
- Buddhaghosa, Bhadantacariya. The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga . Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli. Pariyatti Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9781928706014.
- Sivananda, Swami. “Ahimsa.” Chapter 1 in Bliss Divine: A Book on Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement . Divine Life Society, 2009. ISBN: 9788170520047.
- The following readings are from the New Testament:
- Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Concrete Relations With Others.” Part 3, Chapter 3 in Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology . Translated by Hazel E. Barnes. Philosophical Library, 1956.
- Plato. “The Symposium.” In Symposium and Phaedrus . Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486277981.
- ———. “Phaedrus.” In Symposium and Phaedrus . Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486277981.
- Aristotle. “Book VII: Continence and Incontinence.” In The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle . Translated by William David Ross. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN: 9781463536275.
- ———. “Book VIII: Friendship.” In The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle . Translated by William David Ross. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN: 9781463536275.
- ———. “Second Part.” In I and Thou . Translated by Walter Kaufmann. Touchstone, 1971. ISBN: 9780684717258.
- Hegel, G. W. F. Selections on mutual recognition in Phenomenology of Spirit . Translated by A.V. Miller with analysis of the text and foreward by J.N. Findlay. Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780198245971.
- Levy, David. Selections from Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships . Harper Perennial, 2008. ISBN: 9780061359804.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.