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I took this course to understand what the whole fuss around 'Paradise Lost' meant. I was utterly mind-blown, learning its snide references to free will, tyranny, slavery, civil liberty, etc. in the poem. What I once thought was a retelling of the Bible, surprised me with its political nuances.
I thought I hated literature and philosophy until I took a philosophy 101 course that I procrastinated until my final semester at UT.
It was basically two professors (one was Dutch that was co-teaching the course until he would transition to be a stand-alone professor) and a class of 12 students at a university where I was used to intro courses in 200-student lecture halls.
The enthusiasm of the professors was contagious. And they turned text that would have been boring / misunderstood if read on my own into lines that were couched in all sorts of humor and greater commentary about the world, and I was hooked. They taught me how to enjoy literature that otherwise would have seemed totally dull and dry and it was a real gift.
Over a decade later, I was at a bar and somehow Plato's Gorgias came up with a stranger and we both half-jokingly agreed that Callicles was right about the world. And I thought about how thankful I was for that philosophy class once again.
They're the only disciplines that make it fun to go to class.
The Bible has surprising political nuances as well.
All holy books have _unsurprising_ political nuances because their whole purpose was providing guidance towards stable societies during lawless times.