INS300 - Love: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Subject Title
Love: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Subject Description
Since antiquity, love?whether extolled or scorned?has been made to conform to political, religious, or economic values and imperatives. Meanwhile, philosophy posited its own meanings and arguments for and about love, often challenging prevailing conventions, and the cultural and religious prescriptions and proscriptions of any given era. This course examines conservative, progressive, and transgressive social norms and attitudes toward love and the institution of marriage through the ages. The laws, philosophy, and material culture that shaped these norms are surveyed through literature, visual arts, and film. The intriguing possibility that in essence love and the swirl of ideas, images, and practices surrounding it have remained the same, and that it is only how we talk about these matters that is new and different, is also considered

Credit Status

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

 
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
 

1. Discuss the ways that dominant attitudes toward love, marriage, and chasteness have evolved throughout history,
2. Explore ways that influential works of philosophy and literature have influenced ideas, values, and arguments concerning love, beauty, and physical desire.
3. Explain the connection between socio-economic status or aristocratic privilege and the different experiences of individuals.
4. Identify patriarchal social constructs in texts concerning love, virginity, and purity.
5. Explain major shifts in common discourse or understanding of love and lust, including the impact of popular culture on modern societies.
6. Analyze attitudes towards diverse relationships, including the persistence of allusions to feelings of attraction between persons of the same sex.
7. Identify different views/ideas of how love is manifested, and their relationship to the young and aging body.

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