Ethics, Citizenship, and the Examined Life

1 credits · Undergraduate

Ethics, Citizenship and the Examined Life explores several related themes. It attends to traditional Asian and Western ideals, and contemporary analyses of moral self-cultivation, personal achievement, and meaning to obligations beyond the self to family, community, religion, party, nation, and humanity, and whether it is possible to reconcile the criteria for 'doing the right thing' across cultures and ages; and to the ways in which Asian and Western philosophical and political traditions have addressed the relationship between a meritocratic elite and democratic forms of government.