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Love as a Force for Social Justice

The objectives of this course are: -To introduce participants to different concepts of love, to empower them to be conscious of the power of love and the possibility of practicing it in everyday life, and to highlight in particular the idea of love as a force for social justice. -To communicate a sense of personal strength and empowerment by actively learning from each other and beginning to define how participants can apply their learning in service to society. This course will explore the concept of agape love (compassion/kindness) as a force for social justice and action and as the inspiration for service and the application of knowledge to positive social change. Biological, psychological, religious, and social perspectives of love will be discussed, drawing on the expertise of people from a variety of disciplines. During the six-week course, the following topics will be raised and discussed: kinds of love/defining love; non-violent communication; love and the biology of the brain; love as a basic concept of religious and ethical beliefs (e.g., Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Gandhian); love applied in action, and poetic expressions of love as a social force. This curriculum aims to foster a sense of the importance of love as a key phenomenon in creating community, connection, and functional societies among humans. Course materials will draw from a variety of sources. One of the goals of the class is to provide participants with some knowledge of the literature of love, and readings for the course are listed in the outline of the course on the pages that follow.

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Rating 4.7 based on 61 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $29
From Stanford University via Coursera
Instructor Anne Firth Murray
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Art & Design Humanities
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Arts And Humanities Philosophy

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The teacher Anne Firth Murray is stunning and extremely clever.

Many thanks to Anne Firth Murray and team for this course, indeed a gift that I know will keep on giving.

I am very grateful to professor Anne Firth Murray for thanks to her I feel I have changed as a person.

I would love to do another course regarding love, a deeper level, with professor Anne Firth Murray.

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agape love

i wish i could have everyone take this class so perfect Excellent course to develop skills to practice agape love.

Writing the essays and reading my classmates' work was an equally interesting piece of the project, because being on the lookout for instances of agape love in my life as a subject for the next week's essay really made me more aware of how much love is all around us every day.

The importance of Agape love has been highlighted beautifully through reference materials and videos.

It has been great to understand the practice of Agape Love.

Wonderful course.Deep and thoughtul.Gave me a broad perspective on Agape Love and Love in general What I really loved about this course is that it reinforced the idea of how strong love is as a force for a better world.

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social justice

Love as a Force for Social Justice is a great course to open up your mind and open up possibilities to look at the World with a pair of new eyes :-) Outstanding class!

I have learned so much about Love and its relationship with Social Justice.

Amazing class: Love as a Force for Social Justice.

It has exposed me to look at social justice from a different angle and how love and compassion can bring a change in the outlook of society.

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so much

its close to my own philosophy and i want to learn something what can halp me do work on it and i find a people oppinions about it good crossover biologocal culural and sociological course I've learnt so much about life and myself through this course-- and it's not even done yet, I wish I could rate it higher than 5 stars.

We all spend so much of our education studying wars and violence and actions spurred by hatred- why not change our academic lens a bit and focus on studying love sometimes, too?

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look at

I learned to find ways to look at how ordinary and mundane moments can be lived extraordinarily.

This course made me look at violence from a very different perspective.

life changing

This course was really inspiring and life changing.

Was a life changing experience!

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feel more

i learned a lot on my own time and that makes what i learned feel more valuable.

I feel more human after this course and I can, finally, see my role at the society while woman and while person.

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with great

It was well done with great further reading and other resources.

I was particularly excited by the Nipun Metha video about designing for generosity, and the young students' talk at the end about how the course would impact their future lives was filled with great wisdom for such young minds.

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This course feels a bit like Political Propaganda.... not worth anyone's time.

This one felt a little bit like indoctrination.

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Rating 4.7 based on 61 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $29
From Stanford University via Coursera
Instructor Anne Firth Murray
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Art & Design Humanities
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Arts And Humanities Philosophy

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