21/02/2023
Durante el semestre 2023-1, el docente Sebastián León dictará el curso en inglés «Ética».
Ethics, as a philosophical reflection concerned with the conditions of the good life and the practical realization of principles such as good and justice, has always been in conflict –openly or tacitly– with “realistic” understandings of reality and human action, which reduce human beings to creatures motivated exclusively by selfish interests and social practices and institutions to mere expressions of power relations. Nevertheless, an ethical reflection that takes its work seriously must not only accept the existence of injustice, exploitation, domination and conflict in societies, but also investigate the different ways in which they operate and the peculiar nature of power.
The first part of the course will be a journey through the thought of some classics of moral and political philosophy –Plato, Hobbes, Kant and Hegel–, while in the second part you will study contemporary authors who, starting from different social problems – such as the question of class, gender or race – have sought to explain in what ways power obstructs the realization of justice in modern societies, and in what ways critique and collective action can contribute to overcoming these impasses.
El código del curso es FIL122, horario I580.
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