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School of Letters Department of Humanities Philosophy Course Ethics Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School: |
Contemporary Ethical Thoughts (Lecture V)
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM3185J Course Code: 2023 SpringTerm weekly Mon2 Ito Classroom E/J科目 (日本語, English) |
| Course Overview |
As a major theme, we will focus on "norms," which seem to form the essence of what it means to be "human," and examine them from a philosophical and ethical perspective. In the first semester last year, we discussed how it is possible to understand "norms" in such a way that meaningful actions in accordance with rules can be established. This time, as a further premise of such understanding, we will examine how humans know norms and how they respond to them from the perspective of perception (and also action and ontology). As discussed in the previous class, if norms can be objective in the sense that they are "correlative to subjectivity but non-discretionary," then we can say that they are objectively real in the world, if only to that extent. Through considering the nature of perception of such norms, we will ultimately address the question of what kind of entity norms are for us humans. |
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