MCE604 The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
This course, which takes its title from a famous line in Plato’s Republic, will expose students to two major ways that humans come to know the world, the poetic and the philosophic. Examined texts are likely to include the following texts: Plato’s Ion, Plato, Republic, Aristotle’s Poetics, James Taylor Poetic Knowledge. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, St. John Henry Newman’s "The Mission of St. Benedict."