http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291667329.01291667334 The Literature of Crisis - Audio Our lives are not simply given to us, Socrates used to maintain, but also something we make. As we examine the circumstances of our existence, recognizing certain facts as immutable and others as subject to our control, we all face the challenge of fashioning out of them a way of living that is both meaningful and justifiable. "The Art of Living" explores different ways to think about the nature of that challenge -- how to accommodate conflicting demands and values, how to make our choices "artfully," how to use works of imaginative literature to inspire us. Should we regulate our behavior socratically, according to rigorous standards of reason? Must we seek to conform ourselves to God's wishes? Should we fashion values for ourselves through our own artistic activity? Or could we follow some other strategy altogether? To take a stand on these questions, to decide how to live well and beautifully, is at the same time to answer why we live at all. en-us Education no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Literature of Crisis Syllabus 1291768298 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:46 GMT Education Marsh McCall and Martin Evans 0:00:00 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - The Literature of Crisis Course Introduction - Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development. On a much larger scale, cultures undergo crises too: political, intellectual, and religious changes that alter forever the course of human history. Th 1292717196 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:01:39 GMT Education Martin Evans and Marsh McCall 0:43:53 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Course Ideas Overview - The nature of Humanities in general and the role of literary studies in particular. The historical origins of the Humanist movement. Theories concerning the unchanging human heart. Seeing the world from a new emotional and intellectual center. 1292308857 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:06:14 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:43:11 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Plato, The Apology, Crito - Introduction to early Greek philosophy and education. The sophists. The career of Socrates. The Peloponnesian War. Socrates' trial and defense speech. Socrates' imprisonment. What do you owe to the laws of your country? Socrates' view of death. 1292684831 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:05:13 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:46:58 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Plato, The Apology, Crito Day II - Introduction to early Greek philosophy and education. The sophists. The career of Socrates. The Peloponnesian War. Socrates' trial and defense speech. Socrates' imprisonment. What do you owe to the laws of your country? Socrates' view of death. 1291522421 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:05:41 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:43:38 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good. 1292652057 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:06:42 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:44:49 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day II - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good. 1292894597 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:07:30 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:26:07 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day III - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good. 1291522430 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:07:12 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:48:08 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw." 1292684818 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:02:10 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:46:57 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day II - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw." 1292717205 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:03:07 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:47:05 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day III - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw." 1292878222 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:02:37 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:40:41 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century -- the three revolutions. The problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet. The aesthetic solution and an alternative. 1292489017 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:03:39 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:47:07 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet Day II - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century—the three revolutions. The problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. Sigmund Freud's interpretation of the Oedipus myth. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet. The aesthetic solution and an 1292717214 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:04:42 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:50:51 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet Day III - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century -- the three revolutions. The problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet. The aesthetic solution and an alternative. 1292829079 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:04:08 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:47:49 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid. 1292095856 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:59:49 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:47:51 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day II - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid. 1292829067 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:01:09 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:50:10 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day III - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid. 1291751747 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:00:38 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:24:25 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day IV - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid. 1292732633 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:00:20 GMT Education Marsh McCall 0:47:29 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Voltaire, Candide - Voltaire's text as a re-working of classical and renaissance epic traditions. The Lisbon earthquake and its effect on Voltaire's belief system. Three solutions to the problem of evil. Candide as a critique of Optimism and Manichaeism. Voltaire's attitude 1292732623 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:59:00 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:42:23 no The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Voltaire, Candide Day II, Course Finale - Voltaire's text as a re-working of classical and renaissance epic traditions. The Lisbon earthquake and its effect on Voltaire's belief system. Three solutions to the problem of evil. Candide as a critique of Optimism and Manichaeism. Voltaire's attitude 1292308831 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:59:19 GMT Education Martin Evans 0:25:21 no