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Literature, Philosophy and Religion - Open Courseware (OCW)

Philosophy In Film and Other Media

examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera, film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition, written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman considered: readings
 

Introduction to New Testament History and Literature

historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context, concentrating on the New Testament, importance of the New Testament and other early Christian documents as ancient literature and as sources for historical study, central organizing theme of the course will focus on the differences within early Christianity (-ies)
 

History of Philosophy Without any Gaps

Beginning with the earliest ancient thinkers, ideas and lives of the major philosophers covering in detail Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant) as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition [ongoing podcasts]

Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966)

Seminar in Political Philosophy [17 sessions with audio files] Readings include The Spirit of the Laws

Hegel, The Philosophy of History, winter quarter 1965

Seminar in Political Philosophy [16 sessions and audio files]

Bertrand Russell: Authority and the Individual: 1948

Individual and Social Ethics, Control and Initiative (Their Respective Spheres), The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature, Role of Individuality, Social Cohesion and Government, Social Cohesion and Human Nature

Philosophy of Love in the Western World

seminar on the nature of love and sex approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature, Readings from recent philosophy as well as classic myths of love that occur in works of literature lend themselves to philosophical analysis