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Dec 04, 2024
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Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 312 - Ethics After Auschwitz (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)
This course will center around what it means to ‘go on,’, to live, and to exist as an ethical agent in a world ‘after Auschwitz,’ i.e., after a century of genocides and mass death. Throughout the course, we will focus on the ways in which philosophers have assessed, responded to, and ultimately understood human existence after a century of mass murder, what they claim it revealed about humanity and society, and especially what it suggests for or proposes about our future, together, as humans. Some of the figures we may read include Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Jean Améry, and others. Fulfills the RPP course requirement. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, every 2 years. Shuster.
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