Spring Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| FRENCH (S26) | 1C FUNDAMENTALS | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 1C FUNDAMENTALS | AYOUTI, T. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 1C FUNDAMENTALS | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 1BC INTENSV FUND FRENCH | KLEIN, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 2C INTERMEDIATE | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 2C INTERMEDIATE | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 2BC INTENSIVE FRENCH | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 10 PEER TUTOR PROGRAM | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 102D CULTR BUSINESS FRAN | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 118 NEW TASTE | AYOUTI, T. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 140 FRENCH SCIENCE FIC | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 150 SELF LOVE&COM GOOD | LITWIN, C. |
| FRENCH 150/PHILOS 130/ES 150/REL STD 100: Self Love, Narcissism, and the Common Good In the age of social media, we tend to associate human self-love with the myth of Narcissus, trapped in the love of his self-reflected image. Self-love, however, was conceived of much more positively in the Antiquity. Aristotle and the Stoics, for instance, used the argument that we love people to whom we do good more than we love those who do good to us to oppose generous self-love to both selfishness and altruism. To them, actual love of self was in fact the natural reward of virtue and, as such, the core principle of friendship and active participation in the common good. This interpretation of self-love was, however, largely opposed by Christian theology. Saint Augustine described original sin as the corruption of man’s love of God into self-love. Since pagan virtues derive from self-love, they are sinful and false. Outside of Christian charity all human virtues are but disguised vices. Paradoxically, in a context when this quarrel over the falsehood of human virtues outside of charity was revived at the Renaissance, an austere Augustinian interpretation of human self-love played a significant role in the invention of modern economic science: if only God’s grace can remedy the evil nature of self-love, skillful government should not foolishly attempt to make men virtuous but should instead channel their vices for the greater benefit of society. Such reflections directly influenced Bernard Mandeville, whose famous motto “Private vices. Public benefits” inspired Adam Smith’s metaphor of the “invisible hand”. Allegedly, the greed and selfishness of the rich may result in creating more wealth, and more distribution of this wealth to the poor through labor, than charity will ever have been able to. Indeed, from Rousseau to Smith, philosophers challenged Mandeville’s controversial argument pointing to its restrictive understanding of self-love and its negative moral and political consequences. This course will examine these philosophical debates on self-love and the common good in the Antiquity, their impact in Early Modern French and European thought, as well as their role in the genealogy of political economy in the early wake of capitalism. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | BEY-ROZET, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | FARBMAN, H. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | LITWIN, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | NOLAND, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||