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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in t
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- ancient
- greek western
- philosophical
- scientific
- tradition
- themes
- nature
- law
- justice
- knowledge
- virtue
- happiness
- death
- analysis
- arguments
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This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates meaning through techniques that define a formal structure. There is a particular focus on aesthetic problems about appearance and reality, literary and visual effects, communication and alienation through film technology.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- seminar
- analysis
- film
- art
- meaning
- formal structure
- aesthetic
- problems
- appearance
- reality
- literary
- visual effects
- communication
- alienation
- technology
- beauty and the beast
- welles
- orson
- citizen kane
- allen
- woody
- the purple rose of cairo
- visconti
- luchino
- death in venice
- renoir
- jean
- the rules of the game
- hi
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This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature. Readings from recent philosophy as well as classic myths of love that occur in works of literature and lend themselves to philosophical analysis.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- seminar
- love
- sex
- literature
- film
- readings
- classic myths
- analysis
- marriage
- romance
- tragedy
- don juan
- shaw
- george bernard
- pygmalion.
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