Life lessons from the great books

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This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism. Abstract: This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism Content: Seneca: On providence -- The gospel of John -- Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience -- Dostoevsky: The brothers Karamazov -- Elie Wiesel: Night -- Schweitzer: Out of my life and thought -- Goethe: The sufferings of young Werther -- Shakespeare: Hamlet -- Sophocles: Ajax -- Plato: Epistle VII -- Cicero: On old age -- Isaac Bashevis singer: The penitent -- Euripides: Alcestis -- Euripides: Medea -- Von Strasburg: Tristan and Isolde -- Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra -- Shakespeare: Macbeth -- Aldous Huxley: Brave new world -- Homer: Odyssey -- Sophocles: Philoctetes -- The song of Roland: chivalric adventure -- Nibelungenlied: chivalric romance -- Lewis and Clark: journals -- T.E. Lawrence: Seven pillars of wisdom -- Aristophanes: comedies -- Menaner: The grouch -- Machiavelli, La mandragola -- Erasmus, In praise of folly -- Thomas More: Utopia -- George Orwell: Animal farm -- Josephus: History of the Jewish War -- Joseph Addison: Cato -- George Washington, farewell address -- Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war -- Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography -- The wisdom of great books.