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Lehrende: Dr. Julian Sommerschuh
Veranstaltungsart:
Vertiefungsseminar
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Credits:
5,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
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WICHTIGE Hinweise vom Studienbüro zum SoSe 23
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
What is a good life? How can I become a better person? How should we live together?
Questions pertaining to what is good and right are at the heart of ethical life everywhere. Answers, however, differ widely. While in some places ethics is about following rules, elsewhere it is about cultivating virtue, emulating exemplars, or realizing transcendent ideals. While some societies prize hierarchy and dependence, others strive for equality and freedom. What accounts for this variation, and how can it be studied anthropologically? The seminar introduces students to the anthropology of ethics, a burgeoning field of research interested in the historical and cultural variety of forms of ethical life, and the variety of values and conceptions of human flourishing that have animated them.
Lernziel:
- Students learn about different anthropological approaches to studying ethics and get acquainted with major debates, central concepts, and key ethnographies.
- Students acquire background knowledge on the philosophical schools that have inspired the anthropology of ethics, including virtue ethics, ordinary language philosophy, and phenomenology; students are also invited to reflect on the potentials and limits of a dialogue between anthropology and philosophy.
- Students develop a sharpened sense for the ethical dimension of social life, learning to see and analyse the ubiquity of ethical concern in human affairs.
Vorgehen:
Active and regular participation in the seminar; reading and discussing selected texts by anthropologists and philosophers; group work.
Literatur:
Keane, W. 2016. Ethical life: its natural and social histories. Princeton: University Press.
Laidlaw, J. 2014. The subject of virtue: an anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: University Press.
Lambek, M. (ed.) 2010. Ordinary ethics: anthropology, language, and action. New York: Fordham University Press.
MacIntyre, A. 1981. After virtue: a study in moral theory. London: Duckworth.
Mahmood, S. 2005. Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton: University Press.
Taylor, C. 1989. Sources of the self: the making of modern identity. Cambridge: University Press.
Zigon, J. 2008. Morality: an anthropological perspective. Oxford: Berg.
Modulkürzel:
Bachelor
FSB 16/17: ETH-V2, ETH-NF-V, ETH-WB-FV (Fachliche Vertiefung)
FSB 16/17: ETH-V2, ETH-NF-V, ETH-WB-FV (Fachliche Vertiefung), SG
FSB 12/13: ETH-V2, ETH-NF-V
FSB 12/13: ETH-V2, ETH-NF-V
Master
FSB neu (20/21): ETH-MA-FWB
FSB neu (20/21): ETH-MA-FWB
FSB alt (10/12): ETH-MA-FWB
FSB alt (10/12): ETH-MA-FWB
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