This course provides a basic insight into classical topics of love and friendship depicted famously by Plato in dialogues Phaedrus, Symposion and Lysis, and by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics.

This course provides a basic insight into classical topics of love and friendship depicted famously by Plato in dialogues Phaedrus, Symposion and Lysis, and by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics.

Obligatory:

• Platón. Plato's Phaedrus. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 2003, 137 s. ISBN 0-941051-54-4.
• Platón. The Symposium. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 91 s. ISBN 978-0-521-68298-5.
• . Book VIII-IX. In Aristotelés. The Nicomachean ethics . Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, s. -. ISBN 978-0-19-921361-0..
• Plato. Lysis. In Platón. Lysis ; Symposium ; Gorgias . : , 1925, s. -. ISBN 978-0-674-99184-2..

Optional:

• Vlastos, Gregory. The Individual as Object of Love in Plato. In Gail Fine (ed.). Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul . : Oxford University Press., 1999, s. -. ISBN ..
• Obdrzalek, Suzanne. Socrates on love. In John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.). The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates. . : Continuum, 2013, s. -. ISBN ..
• Gartner, Corinne. Aristotle on Love and Friendship. In Christopher Bobonich (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 143-163., 2017, s. 143-163. ISBN ..

1. Plato: Phaedrus (introduction)
2. Plato: Phaedrus
   230e-236a (speech of Lysias)
   236a-243e (1st speech of Socrates)
3. Plato: Phaedrus 244a-257b (palinode)
4. Plato: Symposion 
   172a-178a(introduction)
   189a-193e (speech of Aristophanes)
5. Plato: Symposion 198a-212c (speech of Diotima)
6. Plato: Symposion 212c-223d(Socrates & Alcibiades)
7. Plato: Republic (introduction)
   
8. Plato: Respublic (bk. V and IX - eros under surveillance; tyrannical eros)
9. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 1-5
10. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 6-10
11. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics VIII 11-14
12. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics IX 5-7
13. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics IX 8-9