Core Humanities II: The Way: Antiquity and the Medieval World

CAS CC 102

How to live: examining Aristotle, Confucius, Laozi, the Bhagavad-gita, Virgil, and the Gospels, students compare Biblical and Classical, and explore Eastern, views of "The Way," or the best human life, concluding with Dante's Divine Comedy. A study of Western and Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts brings out the contrast of traditions and highlights our focus on the relation of the individual to culture and to nature. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.