What is love? Is it an emotion, an action? How do romance and marriage fit into love? How does love determine our identities - who we are - and our vocations - what we are called to? Is there a connection between love and war, between love and desire, even between love and death? How is love central to the Meaning of Life? This course will approach these questions through great works of literature and philosophy, including Plato's Symposium, Cicero's De Amacitia, selections from great poems and stories of love (including several Shakespearian sonnets) and also The Four Loves by CS Lewis.
LIVE CLASS MEETINGS: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Time on Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 8 and ending May 11, with no classes on Nov. 24 and March 30.