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Description
The course is an historically structured survey of ethical theory. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the major ethical theories developed over the history of philosophy and to apply these theories to contemporary social and political problems, such as the authority of government, the significance of consent and democratic rule, charity, friendship, war, and the distribution of wealth. Class time is focused heavily on discussion of the intuitions brought to bear to defend and explain these theories, such as our own impressions of when and why someone is morally responsible for what they do. Major texts include Plato?s Gorgias and Crito, Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics, Augustine?s On the Free Choice of the Will, Kant?s Groundwork, Nietzsche?s Genealogy of Morals, Mill?s Utilitarianism, Nozick?s Anarchy State and Utopia, and Rawls? Theory of Justice. Assignments vary, but they might include some or many of the following: weekly reading responses, quizzes, papers, and exams.
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Class Number
1671
Credits
3
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Description
What is photography? What is a photograph? What does thinking philosophically about photography mean for the practice of photography? How might philosophical concepts be used as tools for creation, as elements of play? In this course, students engage in philosophical inquiry across a wide range of questions and problems relating to photography through engaging with thinkers from the ancient to the (post)modern: Plato, Kant, V. Flusser, A. Azoulay, R. Barthes, W. Benjamin, S. Sontag, R. Krauss, J. Baudrillard, B. DeGenevieve, and F. Laruelle. Students will be acquainted with important concepts in aesthetics (e.g., representation/reflection, truth, figuration, sublime) and concepts in theoretical and philosophical discourse around photography (e.g., indexicality).
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Class Number
2469
Credits
3
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