Syllabus
1. Wednesday, August 25
Introduction to the course.
What do we mean by the "self"?
Introduction to the teachings of Socrates.
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito
2. Monday, August 30
Socrates -- discussion
Stoic tradition: Epictetus -- introduction
3. Wednesday, September 1
Epictetus--discussion
Diogenes and the Cynics--introduction
4. Monday, September 6
Diogenes and the Cynics:
Life of Diogenes; Epistles of Diogenes -- discussion
Early Christian ascetic tradition -- introduction
5. Wednesday, September 8
Peter Brown, "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity"
Kallistos Ware, "The way of the Ascetics: Negative of Affirmative?"
and Elizabeth Clark, "Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity" discussion
6. Monday, September 13
Life of Anthony discussion
7. Wednesday, September 15
Desert Fathers discussion
Film Screening: Franco Zeffirelli, Brother Sun -- Sister Moon
we will meet in DeBartolo 119 at 4:45 pm. We`ll start with pizza and my introductory remarks
and then we will watch the film from 5:10 to 7:10 pm.
8. Monday, September 20
Brother Sun -- Sister Moon and
Life of Francis of Assisi -- discussion
Dostoevsky and his The Brothers Karamazov -- introduction
9. Wednesday, September 22
The Brothers Karamazov, Author`s Preface, Part 1, Books 1 & 2
10. Monday, September 27
The Brothers Karamazov, Part 1, Book 3
Part 2, Books 4-6
11. Wednesday, September 29
The Brothers Karamazov, Part 3, Books 7 & 8
12. Monday, October 4
The Brothers Karamazov, Part 3, Book 9, Part 4, Book 10
13. Wednesday, October 6
The Brothers Karamazov, Part 4, Book 11
14. Monday, October 11
Part 4, Book 12 and Epilogue
15. Wednesday, October 13
Mid-term exam
Oct. 16-24 Mid Semester Break
16. Monday, October 25
Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching -- discussion
17. Wednesday, October 27
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna`s Counsel in Time of War -- discussion
18. Monday, November 1
Essay on Islam--discussion
Rumi, Jalal al-Din. The Essential Rumi
19. Wednesday, November 3
Rumi, Jalal al-Din. The Essential Rumi -- discussion
20. Monday, November 8
Becker, Ernest. "The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis." The Denial of Death discussion
Ramachandran, V.S. "Preface" and "The Phantom Within" from:
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind -- discussion
21. Wednesday, November 10
Carl Gustav Jung, "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious."
Carl Gustav Jung,"Aion: Phenomenology of the Self "
22. Monday, November 15
Utopian Thought and Dystopia -- introduction
Zamiatin, Eugine. We pp. 1-124 discussion
23. Wednesday, November 17
Zamiatin, Eugine. We pp. 125-232 -- discussion
Deadline for choosing the final paper topic
24. Mondey, November 22
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago pp. 9-220
25. Wednesday, November 24
no class
25-28 Thanksgiving Holiday
26. Monday, November 29
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago pp. 221-348
pp. 324-491
27. Wednesday, December 1
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago pp. 349-442.
28. Monday, December 6
No class.
Evening screening of David Lean`s film Doctor Zhivago
discussion
29. Wednesday, December 8
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago pp. 443-549
Zhivago`s poems, pp.553-599
Self and God -- final remarks
Final paper due in class
Study Days, December 9-12
December 16, 4:15-6:15 pm, in DBRT 113
