180087 SE Approaches, Objects and Methods of Ethics (2023S)
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
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Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
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Update 24 March 2023:
Reading response: 200-600words
Short Essay: 600-1200words
Final Essay: 1000-2500words
Participation 24% for 11 meetings (not 12)This course introduces students to reading and responding to journal articles on diverse and often unfamiliar topics. As a result, the assessment emphasizes engaged participation in class and includes many short writing assignments. Along with longer-form essays and peer-feedback.24% Participation and Attendance (12/13 meetings)
18% Reading Responses (9)
20% Short paper
8% Peer-feedback Assignment (in-class)
30% Final Paper
Reading response: 200-600words
Short Essay: 600-1200words
Final Essay: 1000-2500words
Participation 24% for 11 meetings (not 12)This course introduces students to reading and responding to journal articles on diverse and often unfamiliar topics. As a result, the assessment emphasizes engaged participation in class and includes many short writing assignments. Along with longer-form essays and peer-feedback.24% Participation and Attendance (12/13 meetings)
18% Reading Responses (9)
20% Short paper
8% Peer-feedback Assignment (in-class)
30% Final Paper
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The prerequisite for a positive assessment is submitting the reading responses, two essays, and the peer-feedback response.he final grade will be calculated from the sum of percentage points earned such that:
<60% is 5; 60+% is 4; 70+% is 3; 80+% is 2; and 90+% is 124% Participation and Attendance: In-person engagement in discussion and participation in group discussions or activities is an important part of this course.18% Reading Responses: 9 times per semester (2% each), These must be submitted before class to receive. Late responses will only be worth 1% each. Students must write a brief (300-600 words) response to at least one assigned text. These responses should identify the main idea of the reading and offer an evaluation or elaboration by providing an insightful example, clarification, distinction, personal reflection, or criticism.20% Short Paper: 1200-1800 words long, due week 8. You will be given several essay questions, or you may request permission to write on another topic, perhaps elaborating on one of the reading responses. It does not require additional research but should compare and discuss at least two texts from Part 1 of the course.8% Peer-feedback Assignment (in-class): Either in chosen partners or anonymously assigned partners, you should grade another student’s paper. This includes highlighting confusing passages in their text, providing a few sentences outlining what was done well and what could be done to improve the paper, and suggesting a grade. You will be graded on the appropriateness of your comments and evaluation. Time will be available in class to read and grade each other’s papers.30% Final Paper: 2500 words long, due July 17th (over two weeks after classes end). Please either elaborate on the previous short paper, possibly drawing from additional research and other course material, or explore a new paper topic based on reading responses from the second half of the term (new topics should be discussed
<60% is 5; 60+% is 4; 70+% is 3; 80+% is 2; and 90+% is 124% Participation and Attendance: In-person engagement in discussion and participation in group discussions or activities is an important part of this course.18% Reading Responses: 9 times per semester (2% each), These must be submitted before class to receive. Late responses will only be worth 1% each. Students must write a brief (300-600 words) response to at least one assigned text. These responses should identify the main idea of the reading and offer an evaluation or elaboration by providing an insightful example, clarification, distinction, personal reflection, or criticism.20% Short Paper: 1200-1800 words long, due week 8. You will be given several essay questions, or you may request permission to write on another topic, perhaps elaborating on one of the reading responses. It does not require additional research but should compare and discuss at least two texts from Part 1 of the course.8% Peer-feedback Assignment (in-class): Either in chosen partners or anonymously assigned partners, you should grade another student’s paper. This includes highlighting confusing passages in their text, providing a few sentences outlining what was done well and what could be done to improve the paper, and suggesting a grade. You will be graded on the appropriateness of your comments and evaluation. Time will be available in class to read and grade each other’s papers.30% Final Paper: 2500 words long, due July 17th (over two weeks after classes end). Please either elaborate on the previous short paper, possibly drawing from additional research and other course material, or explore a new paper topic based on reading responses from the second half of the term (new topics should be discussed
Prüfungsstoff
No exam; see minimum requirements
Literatur
Literature:All literature is accessible online or will be made available through moodle. For translated works, please feel free to use
alternate translations. This selection has been recommended for its ease of accessibility. Typically each week will contain two articles and total less than 40 pages of reading.Arendt, Hannah (1960). Freedom and politics: A lecture.Aristotle, (1908).
Nichomachean Ethics:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.htmlBenhabib, Seyla (1996). Identity, Perspective and Narrative in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem.de Bouvoir, Simone (1947/1949).
Ethics of Ambiguity:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htmCherry, Myisha (2022). Political anger.Etiyibo, Edwin (2017). Moral education, ubuntu and ubuntu-inspired communities.Kant, Immanuel (1785/2008).
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals:
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1785.pdfKorsgaard, Christine (2004). Fellow creatures: Kantian ethics and our duties to animals.Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia (2011). Ableist Rhetorics, Nevertheless: Disability and Animal Rights in the Work of Peter Singer
and Martha Nussbaum.MacLachlan, Alice (2010). Unreasonable resentmentsMetz, Thaddeus (2006). The Western ethic of care or an Afro-communitarian ethic? Specifying the right relational morality.Mill, John Stuart (1865).
Utilitarianism:
https://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htmMiró, Gisela Carrasco (2020). Encountering the colonial: religion in feminism and the coloniality of secularism.Nussbaum, Martha (2016). Working with and for animals: getting the theoretical framework right.Singer, Peter (1987). Animal liberation or animal rights.Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2014). Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation.Stockdale, Katie (2013). Collective Resentment.
alternate translations. This selection has been recommended for its ease of accessibility. Typically each week will contain two articles and total less than 40 pages of reading.Arendt, Hannah (1960). Freedom and politics: A lecture.Aristotle, (1908).
Nichomachean Ethics:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.htmlBenhabib, Seyla (1996). Identity, Perspective and Narrative in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem.de Bouvoir, Simone (1947/1949).
Ethics of Ambiguity:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htmCherry, Myisha (2022). Political anger.Etiyibo, Edwin (2017). Moral education, ubuntu and ubuntu-inspired communities.Kant, Immanuel (1785/2008).
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals:
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1785.pdfKorsgaard, Christine (2004). Fellow creatures: Kantian ethics and our duties to animals.Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia (2011). Ableist Rhetorics, Nevertheless: Disability and Animal Rights in the Work of Peter Singer
and Martha Nussbaum.MacLachlan, Alice (2010). Unreasonable resentmentsMetz, Thaddeus (2006). The Western ethic of care or an Afro-communitarian ethic? Specifying the right relational morality.Mill, John Stuart (1865).
Utilitarianism:
https://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htmMiró, Gisela Carrasco (2020). Encountering the colonial: religion in feminism and the coloniality of secularism.Nussbaum, Martha (2016). Working with and for animals: getting the theoretical framework right.Singer, Peter (1987). Animal liberation or animal rights.Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2014). Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation.Stockdale, Katie (2013). Collective Resentment.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Sa 25.03.2023 00:05
The course is divided into three parts; part one looks at the three major approaches from the philosophical canon: deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. Drawing on examples from the animal ethics literature, we explore how these historically important approaches are applied in a contemporary context and where they might be vulnerable to criticism.
Part two explores how relational approaches de-center and challenge traditional assumptions about political community, systemic injustice, and education. As we explore this, we will pay close attention to the role of affect in identifying sources of conflict and opportunities for care. Further exploring decolonial methods, we will introduce non-Western traditions like Indigenous and ubuntu ethics.
Part three explores how existential reflection about our identity and position in the world can inform ethical attitudes towards our own or others’ identity, and the shared struggle for political freedom. This third exploration will focus on feminist perspectives and decolonial Islamic feminism. Overall, students should walk away from this course with a broad understanding of the scope and pluralism appropriate to applied ethics, a familiarity with historically privileged perspectives, and traditions that critique the problems (and elaborate on the opportunities) of those traditions.