CLQ 3161 C6/PH:Ethics of Care and Compassion
From the beginning of Western philosophy, the classical philosophers - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - argued that how we define 'justice' and 'the good' shapes our lives, both personally and collectively. This SL course provides a platform for practical reasoning as we explore philosophical grounding for compassionate community action and constructive public policy. We will look at classical models and questions, but we will focus on contemporary philosophers whose ideas have direct bearing on an ethic of care and openhearted community- among them Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, Emmanuel Levinas, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Martha Nussbaum. Co-requisite
CLQ 3160.
Corequisite
CLQ 3160 - lecture