New courses in Concourse from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/concourse 2022-02-11T17:22:26+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on an in-depth reading of Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis by Isaac Newton, as well as several related commentaries and historical philosophical texts. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/concourse/cc-s10-history-and-philosophy-of-mechanics-newtons-principia-mathematica-fall-2011 Fall 2011 Schulman, Adam 2015-09-11T18:23:47+05:00 CC.S10 en-US intellectual history history of mathematics history of science and technology Isaac Newton calculus laws of motion MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Explore where the prohibitions and permissions that occur in every day life come from, why they exist, and what gives them force. For example: food—you are only willing and able to eat a subset of the world's edible substances. Marriage—some marriages are prohibited by law or by custom. This course addresses questions of prohibition and permission using psychological sources and literary works from ancient to modern. Texts include works by Shakespeare, Melville, Mary Rowlandson, and Anita Desai. Students give group and individual oral presentations. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/concourse/cc-s10-prohibition-and-permission-spring-2007 Spring 2007 Wolfe, Jeremy Kelley, Wyn 2015-09-11T18:23:37+05:00 CC.S10 en-US eating disgust bible mary rowlandson shakespeare twelfth night melville typee kafka dietary laws fasting feasting gender family sanction permission culture food social practices metamorphosis MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature, film, poetry, and individual experience. It investigates the distinction among eros, philia, and agape. Students discuss ideas of love as a feeling, an action, a species of 'knowing someone,' or a way to give or take. Authors studied include Plato, Kant, Buber, D. H. Lawrence, Rumi, and Aristotle. This course is part of the Concourse program at MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/concourse/cc-112-philosophy-of-love-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Perlman, Lee 2014-01-15T03:02:44+05:00 CC.112 en-US romantic longing D.H. Lawrence ethics Kant sexual longing eros agape philia unconditional love duty intention sex power universal longing friendship mutuality Sartre Plato Rumi Aristotle Buber robot MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines the modern definition of freedom, and the obligations that people accept in honoring it. It investigates how these obligations are captured in the principles of our political associations. This course also studies how the centrality of freedom plays out in the political thought of such authors as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke and Montesquieu, as well as debating which notions of freedom inspire and sustain the American experiment by careful reading of the documents and arguments of the founding of the United States. This course is part of the Concourse program at MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/concourse/cc-111-modern-conceptions-of-freedom-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Rabieh, Linda 2013-12-31T04:08:08+05:00 CC.111 en-US enlightenment the Constitution Machiavelli Hobbes Locke Rousseau Tocqueville Nietzche founders liberty popular sovereignty human nature politics Leviathan government Declaration of Independence American constitutionalism Federalist Papers equality statesmanship Lincoln modernity MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm