ClassInfo - Spring 2020 Philosophy Classes

Spring 2020 | PHIL 1917 Section 001: How Should We Value Persons? (65719)

Instructor(s): Michelle Mason Bizri
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Freshman Seminar
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020

Mon, Wed, Fri 01:25PM - 02:15PM

UMTC, West Bank

Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
Enrollment Status:: Open (9 of 20 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: A capacity for valuing (a capacity for, among other things, effectively responding to the significance of events, actions, or persons) is central to our status as moral beings. Moreover, how well or poorly we value influences the kinds of feelings we warrant in turn. A proper orientation to the value of things and persons likewise is necessary if we are to live good lives. A good life, that is, plausibly requires that we concern ourselves not only with the truth of what we believe and the efficacy of what we do but, also, with the appropriateness of our evaluative attitudes and feelings toward things and persons (including oneself). This class will explore the complexity and moral significance of our modes of valuing persons by introducing and investigating a class of esteem-based, person-focused evaluative attitudes. Paradigms of the class include forms of contempt, shame, pride, and love. Although these attitudes are both commonplace and arguably central to holding others and ourselves accountable to moral ideals, contemporary Anglo-American moral philosophy lacks a systematic account of them as a class.
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