ClassInfo - Fall 2022 Philosophy Classes

Fall 2022 | PHIL 1919 Section 001: Africana Philosophy (33041)

Instructor(s): Dwight Lewis, Jr
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Class Attributes:: Freshman Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022

Mon, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 230
Enrollment Status:: Open (5 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2022

Course Catalog Description:: In this course, we will engage concepts related to Blackness, particularly race, gender, and sexuality. We will investigate them individually then through conversation untangle the ways that they intersect. We will see that Black philosophers reveal an epistemic insight from the ways that they push on the western status quo both rationally and morally. In terms of rationality, Black philosophers propel us to redefine Blackness, sexuality, imperialism, communal care, and whiteness in general. In relation to morality, Black philosophers place us in a tension between the inner and the outer, the individual and the community, the personal and the social; it insists on seriously inquiring into the blame, blameworthiness, and shame that avoids and rejects Black lives, i.e., of the outer, the community, and figure without being on the edges of society. It is at this intersection of the rational and moral in relation to Blacks that a breakdown of singularity creates a new something. I want us to get close to understanding that "new something" by exploring the rational and moral in Black thought.
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