Building Moral Communities

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course will focus on the practical task of building and sustaining moral communities. Likely topics to be covered include the following: civility, social relationships, individual and social well-being, affective goods, moral improvement, friendship, beneficence, neighborliness, love, gratitude, forgiveness, moral faith, and hope. As part of the course, students will be expected to attend and participate actively in a professional workshop, to be held on campus Thursday, April 11—Saturday, April 13. Workshop speakers will be philosophers whose work we will have read earlier in the semester. They will be presenting new material on the topic during the workshop. Students in the course will attend all talks, join speakers for meals, and serve as moderators during the workshop sessions.