ASRC 3333 - Ethics and Society: Aid and Its Consequences

(crosslisted) PHIL 2441
(GB) (SBA-AS, HST-AS, SSC-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

O. Taiwo.

The course looks at the connection between ethics and society. It does so by focusing on the issues raised by the phenomenon of aid, giving or receiving it, and how we understand and react to it. We seek to make sense of aid and its place In society. We explore the ethics of aid from the point of view of philosophy. We move to working through the implications of aid for (1) the giver; (2) the receiver; (3) the society, local and global; (4) the relations between individuals in a given society with respect to aid and; (5) relations between one society and its members and another society when they engage in aid-related activities.

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