Philosophy 014 (PHIL014): Philosophy of Love and Sex
PHIL 014 Course Outline
Lesson 1: Camus - We’re—no, I’m Lonely, but
Lesson 2: Descartes - The Lonely “I” meets--
Lesson 3: Hegel - Ack! “You!” which gives way to
Lesson 4: Hegel - Us.” We’d might as well pursue
Lesson 5: Arstotle - The Good (Communal) Life which means
Lesson 6: Tisdale - Sex is Important! But wait- do we only mean
Lesson 7: Freud - Normal and Healthy Sex? And if so, what is the appropriate
Lesson 8: Freud - Development of Sexuality? More than this,
Lesson 9: Plato - Are All Erotic Desires Praiseworthy? Should we praise Eros for
Lesson 10: Plato - What We Use Eros For? or for
Lesson 11: Irigaray - What Eros Uses Us For? For instance might there be
Lesson 12: Woolf - Non-Physical Consummation?
Lesson 13: Tisdale - What is “Consummation” Anyway?
Lesson 14: Ackerman, Leidloff - And why might we need a postscript about Infancy and Love?
Lesson 15: Review
A soul kiss.
Diotima of Mantinea plays an important role in Plato's Symposium. Since our only source concerning her is Plato, we cannot be certain whether she was a real historical personage or merely a fictional creation.
Descartes
The cogito, which Descartes supports with the"evil genius" hypothesis and the illustration using wax, is his answer to the metaphysical and epistemological question, "what, if anything, is truly certain?"
Eros is the Greek god of love and sexual desire.