Sex Politics:Jesuit Ethics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The course has two goals. First, to examine how an ethical tradition develops over time, displaying continuities and discontinuities. Second, to explore how Ignatian spirituality has and/or has not informed the particular way that Jesuits have done ethics. As a help to achieve these goals, the course will additionally pursue two other goals: examining how Jesuits have argued about concrete issues (debates about politics and sexuality will be particularly important here) and noting how critics have responded to these views (as a way of clarifying the issues at stake).