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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2023 |
| Registration ID | PHILH370A001 |
| Course Title | Topics In Ethical Theory: Inheritance |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Philosophy |
| Instructor | Miller,J. Reid |
| Times and Days | MW 02:30pm-03:55pm
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| Room Location | HLL106 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2564 This course examines the concept of inheritance as a transfer of physical, social, linguistic, economic and behavioral capacities. Inheritance is unique, as Kant notes, as a transfer or gift that typically cannot be refused. Despite being involuntary recipients of our inherited capacities, we often imagine our having intentionally developed and earned them, whether advantageous or disadvantageous. By examining theories of how inheritances proceed across and through individuals and groups, especially via relations thought inheritably impotent (e.g., race and queerness), we will contemplate these movements as ethical genealogies, that is, as historical transfers of value (economic, social, dispositional) that configure recognition of our embodied selves. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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