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Plato and Aristotle on Love and Friendship

Class at Faculty of Humanities |
YBF348

Syllabus

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Plato: Lysis (reading)

Plato: Lysis (summary, commentary)

Plato: Phaedrus (introduction)

Plato: Phaedrus 230e-236a (speech of Lysias)236a-243e (1st speech of Socrates)

Plato: Phaedrus 244a-257b (palinode)

Plato: Symposion  172a-178a(introduction)189a-193e (speech of Aristophanes)

Plato: Symposion 198a-212c (speech of Diotima)

Plato: Symposion 212c-223d(Socrates & Alcibiades)

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 1-5

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 6-10

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 11-14

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics IX 5-7

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics IX 8-9

Annotation

This course provides a basic insight into classical topics of love and friendship depicted famously by Plato in dialogues Phaedrus, Symposion and Lysis, and by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics.