Week 4: Body and soul in Plato

Readings

Plato, Symposium 202a-212c, p.79-95.
Augustine, City of God, Book VIII, chapter 5-8, trans. by G. Walsh and G. Morgan (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1952), p.28-36.
Petrarcha, The Canzoniere, trans. M. Musa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), p.194-196.
Thomas Gould, Platonic Love. "The Platonic love distinguished from the rival theories of the nature of love: The Christian, the Romantic and the Freudian theories", in Platonic love (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1963), p.1-18.