Notes on Introduction to the Humanities -- Hum A212

William Jamison - Instructor

Lecture 11

Reading from Charles Taylor  A Secular Age (winner of the Templeton Prize in 2007) or see: http://books.google.com/books?id=hWRXYY3HRFoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+secular+age+charles+taylor#v=onepage&q=&f=false I read the chapter titled The Expanding Universe of Unbelief: http://books.google.com/books?id=hWRXYY3HRFoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+secular+age+charles+taylor#v=onepage&q=unbelief&f=false

I used this to approach the contrast between C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud as described in the book "A Question of God" by Armand Nicholi:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2N4HYwKFwkIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=c+s+lewis+sigmund+freud#v=onepage&q=&f=false

I also mentioned Freud's "The Future of an Illusion" http://books.google.com/books?id=pkW1ckw93vcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+future+of+an+illusion&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The third selection, listed first, is a reading from Peter Lawler "Stuck with Virtue".

http://books.google.com/books?id=oIN1AAAAMAAJ&q=peter+lawler+stuck+with+virtue&dq=peter+lawler+stuck+with+virtue&as_brr=0

From these we looked at selections from the art book viewing various pictures on the web matching the text moving from early to late Middle Ages.

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