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Prohibition and Permission

CC.S10 · Concourse · Undergraduate · Spring 2007

Prof. Jeremy Wolfe, Dr. Wyn Kelley

MIT · Tier 1

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…

LiteraturePhilosophyLawHumanitiesSocial Sciences

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Prof. Jeremy Wolfe, Dr. Wyn Kelley. CC.S10 Prohibition and Permission. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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