A class that spiraled outwards from a consideration of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale to Maugham's parable of the appointment in Samara to parables in general, including the strange parable of the talents in Matthew. The ontology of things in the world and death as not a thing in the world (in Chaucer, in Maugham). How treasure or gold is like death -- a catalyst, a vector, something not itself (a marker for a return to Aristotle tomorrow).
12. 17th c poetry: Done with Donne
9. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley
8. Film and Philosophy Plato's Cave
11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets
10. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")
7. Film and Philosophy -- Mainly on Dark City
9. 17th C Poetry: Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning
8. 17th century poetry: Donne's "To His Mistress Upon Going to Bed" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
6. Ontology and the image, from Plato to Cavell
7. Seventeenth Century Poetry: Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"
6. 17th Century Poetry -- Donne's "Ecstasy" and "Love's Alchemy"
5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window
4. Film -- A couple of scenes from Out of the Past, and discussion of La Jetée
5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"
4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity
Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past
3. 17th century poetry
2. 17th century poetry. Why death? - more on Donne's "At the round earth's imagined corners"
2. Philm (get it?) - versions of continuity
Intro to Film and Philosophy: their reciprocity, Marclay's Telephones
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