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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Thursday Oct 14, 2010
Plato's Socrates and Aristophanes's - 10/12/10
Thursday Oct 14, 2010
Thursday Oct 14, 2010
Philosophy vs. comedy: this world and the world of forms. The competition between them. Theories of truth: coherence vs. correspondence. Philosophy wants consistency, whereas comedy isn't interested in consistency but simply in correspondence. Aristophanes and Jon Stewart: political commentary.
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