Reading in foreign language BA

What is love? What is to be loved? What does it mean to love ourselves? Is love a choice or a feeling? In what sense intimacy, passion, and commitment are core components of love? How to think seriously about love today? In trying to formulate an answer to these questions, the course will propose the reading of writings about theories of love from the history of Western philosophy, from the social sciences and pedagogy. The course will encourage students motivation and critical ability to read texts in a foreign language (English) and to dialogue in class. It will offer them the opportunity to verbalize their understanding, share their thoughts, and examine the proposed topic from a coherent variety of perspectives. More precisely, focused on the topic of love, the course will deal with ancient, modern, and contemporary thinkers reflexting about friendship and love, communal love, societal love.