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HDS 3639

Psychoanalysis and Character Ethics

Jonathan Schofer

Description

How does the human psyche operate? In what ways can people transform their emotions and desires to become, in some sense, better? These two questions are shared by both the psychoanalytic tradition and scholars of virtue ethics, though they have different and arguably conflicting responses concerning the nature of psychological dynamics and the possibilities for change. This course will address these issues through readings from Aristotle, Freud, and then recent thinkers who engage the relationship between these two approaches to the self and ethics (some background in either psychoanalysis or ethics is helpful but not required).

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1548

Scheduling

Half Course
Not Offered 2009-10
Course times to be announced.
Location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Religion, Ethics, and Politics
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Non-Tradition Specific
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	none
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 3
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a