Seminar Materials
LEAD 301.03: Philosophy in Love and Friendship
Fall 2025
Michael Taber & John Crook
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA

The materials for the seminar consist of three required books, each available in paperback, as well as various articles and selections I will distribute, the sequence of which is listed on the course schedule page. 

The books are:

1.    Symposium by Plato, translated by Nehamas & Woodruff, (2009, Hackett Publishing: 978-0-87220-076-0)
Please don’t mess this up by getting some other translation/pagination.

 

2.    The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis (1960; reissue 2017 by HarperOne: pb 0062565397)

 

3.    Friendship, Robots, and Social Media by Alexis M. Elder (2019, Routledge: 0367889439)


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