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Philosophy of Love

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesCC.112
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2013English
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This course explores the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature, film, poetry, and individual experience. It investigates the distinction among eros, philia, and agape. Students discuss ideas of love as a feeling, an action, a species of ‘knowing someone,’ or a way to give or take. Authors studied include Plato, Kant, Buber, D. H. Lawrence, Rumi, and Aristotle. This course is part of the Concourse program at MIT.

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