- Analyze the Haidt's conception of love
- Evaluate different approaches toward finding fulfillment
Agenda
- 500 Days of Summer
- Discussion
- General issues: what do you think of the main characters? Did one have a better approach than the other? Were both equally "to blame" for the problems in their relationship?
- Forms of attachment (Haidt)
- Buddhism/Stoicism/Aesthetic approaches vs. Attachment
- Do You Know Love?
- Summer doesn't think love is real - but Tom says: "You know it when you feel it."
- Is this true? Does Tom know it?
- How does one know the difference between passionate and companionate love?
- Getting Behind The Wall
- Summer: "I've never told anyone that before."
- Tom attaches major significance to this experience. Why? Should he?
- Certainty
- Tom: "I need to know you're not going to wake up and feel differently"
Summer: "I can't give you that. No one can." - Is Tom's quest for certainty futile? How should he respond to that?
- The Ending
- What's Tom's lesson about fulfillment and meaning? Does he take the correct approach, or is he still in despair (in the Kierkegaardian sense)
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