Readings

The following table contains the course's required readings, and the required video materials for viewing.

WEEK # TOPICS READINGS / VIDEO MATERIALS
1 Introduction  
2 I. Romantic Longing

Buy at Amazon 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. 

Buy at Amazon ———. "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.

Buy at Amazon ———. "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. 

Buy at Amazon ———. "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. 

Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Black and White, 102 min. 1942.

3 II. Love as Duty and Intention

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon Kant, Immanuel. Selections from Lectures on Ethics. Translated by Louis Infield. Hackett Publishing Company, 1981. ISBN: 9780915144266.

4–5 III. Sexual Longing

Buy at Amazon 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.

"Francisco D'Anconia's Speech: Sex and Morality." Sharing is Living.

Buy at Amazon Olds, Sharon. "Sex Without Love." In The Dead and the Living. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. ISBN: 9780394715636.

6–7 IV. Agape and Unconditional Love

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon Buddhaghosa, Bhadantacariya. The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga. Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli. Pariyatti Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9781928706014.

King, Jr., Martin Luther. "The Power of Non-violence." Teaching American History.org, June 4, 1957.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Murphy, Stephen. "Brief Outline of Gandhi's Philosophy." Mahatma Gandhi Complete Information Website.

"LOVE Lesson 7: Mahatma Gandhi On Love." Gnostic.Org

The following readings are from the New Testament:

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version), BibleGateway.com.

Matthew 5 (New International Version), BibleGateway.com

1 John 4: 7-19 (New International Version), BibleGateway.com

John 15: 9-19 (New International Version), BibleGateway.com

8 V. Eros, Sex and Power

Buy at Amazon 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. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Olds, Sharon. "Sex Without Love." In The Dead and the Living. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. ISBN: 9780394715636.

The Piano. Directed by Jane Campion. Color, 121 min. 1993.

9–11 VI. Eros as Universal Longing

Buy at Amazon Plato. "The Symposium." In Symposium and Phaedrus. Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486277981.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Phaedrus." In Symposium and Phaedrus. Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486277981.

Love Poems of Rumi. khamush.com

Pulsegod1985. "The Origin Of Love – Hedwig And The Angry Inch." August 13, 2006. YouTube. Accessed August 6, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1Odc

12–14 VII. Friendship and Mutuality

Buy at Amazon Aristotle. "Book VII: Continence and Incontinence." In The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Translated by William David Ross. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN: 9781463536275.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Book VIII: Friendship." In The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Translated by William David Ross. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN: 9781463536275.

Buy at Amazon Buber, Martin. "First Part." In I and Thou. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. Touchstone, 1971. ISBN: 9780684717258. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "Second Part." In I and Thou. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. Touchstone, 1971. ISBN: 9780684717258.

Nicol, Caitrin. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Till Malfunction Do Us Part." (PDF) The New Atlantis 19 (2008): 125–31.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon Levy, David. Selections from Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. Harper Perennial, 2008. ISBN: 9780061359804.

psicodelicopsicopata. "Paro Baby Seal." May 17, 2007. YouTube. Accessed August 6, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npV-npZkxI

TheLowridingChrist. "The Twilight Zone-The Lonely-EP 7 Part 1." September 24, 2011. YouTube. Accessed August 7, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYbKjSCA-fs

TheLowridingChrist. "The Twilight Zone-The Lonely-Part 2." September 24, 2011. YouTube. Accessed August 7, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCleX01rPqI

Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Color, 100 min. 1989.