RELG 242 - Love and Its Critics

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
This course examines the ethics of love in Western religious traditions with a specific emphasis upon self-sacrifice and criticisms of it. Readings are drawn from both pre-modern (Aquinas, and Luther) and modern (Barth and Rosenzweig) defenders of love, along with modern critics (Friedrich Nietzsche, naturalistic interpreters, and Freud among others). FInally, the course concludes with response to the love critics (Max Scheler, Simone Weil, Benedict XVI).
Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: J. Swan Tuite