TRS 831 Ethics and Social Theory
This course provides a primer in classical and contemporary social theory with an eye to its significance for ethics. How do accounts of ethics conceive of the character and workings of human society? How do conceptions of social dynamics reflect the ethical concerns of their authors? Several traditions of social thought (e.g. critical theory, pragmatism) will be addressed, along with central concepts (e.g. agency, practices) and issues (e.g. postmodernism, globalization) arising at the intersection of ethics and social theory.