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Calendar for the course.

Session Topic/Assignment  Key Dates
1   Introduction: Philosophy as Love Potion
 
 Love and Independence 
2 Exotica  Screening
 
3 Exotica
 
4 Plato, Symposium, Opening Scene, Phaedrus and Pausanias (172a-185c)
 
 5  DISCUSSION  
6  Andre Dubus, "Falling in Love"
 
7  Plato, Phaedrus, through Socrates' first speech (227a-241d)
 
8  DISCUSSION
9 Phaedrus, Socrates' second speech (the charioteer speech) (241e-257b)
 
10 Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
 
11
 DISCUSSION Paper 1 Due
Unity and Procreation 
12 Symposium, Eryximachus (185c-189b)
 
13 Symposium, Aristophanes (189b-193e)
 
14 DISCUSSION
 
15 The Hairdresser's Husband
 
16 Matthew 19 and Genesis 1-3  
17 DISCUSSION Paper 2 Due
18 Symposium, Socrates and Diotima (201d-212c)  
19 J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings  
20 DISCUSSION  
21 Mind the Gap
 
22 Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae; Andre Dubus, "All the Time in the World"
23 DISCUSSION
Paper 3 Due
  Accepting and Refusing Marriage
24 William Shakespeare, Othello, especially Acts 1-3  
25 Othello, especially Acts 4-5
 
26 DISCUSSION  
27 Hannah and Her Sisters
 
28 Andre Dubus, "The Timing of Sin"  
29 DISCUSSION
Paper 4 Due
30 The Secret Lives of Dentists  
31 Andre Dubus, "Out of the Snow"
 
32 Babette's Feast

33 DISCUSSION
 
Love as Insight, Love as Illusion
34 Proof  
35 Symposium, Alcibades' speech (212d-222b)
 
36 DISCUSSION Paper 5 Due
37 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, optimistic lecture
 
38 A Midsummer Night's Dream, pessimistic lecture  
39 DISCUSSION
Paper 6 Due
40 Phaedrus, Socrates' second speech (the charioteer speech) (241e-257b)  
41 FINAL EXAM

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