As we have seen, ethical thinking and doing takes considerably more effort than we perhaps previously thought. To do the right thing or to be a good person requires a substantial effort to weigh the intentions, consequences, context, and value of all decisions.
In the Ethics project, we looked at various thinkers who attempted to account for why we should be ethical and what being ethical entailed. We also looked at Nietzsche. However, we face the problem of marginalization. Marginalization entails taking one group or set of groups and making them the average or normative (sets the standard for what is regarded as "normal") and then leaving the other groups on the margins or outskirts. The ethics of the normative becomes the ethics of exclusion.
This project will entail becoming acquainted with some important aspects of marginal theory or the ethics of marginal groups. The main question marginal ethics asks is "Who counts?" That is, who matters in ethical considerations? In order to do this activity you must accomplish the following:
1. Read several of the entries from What it is Like to be a Woman in Philosophy followed by reading the response website.
2. Read this essay about Emmanuel Levinas, one of the great thinkers of marginal ethics.
3. Read an entry on either Post-Colonial Theory, Gender, or Critical Race Theory from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
4. Try you luck at PlaySpent.
5. Find a partner and discuss the following questions/ideas:
-What marginalized groups can you identify in your own experience?
-Have you ever found yourself marginalized or counted as a member of a marginalized group?
-How are these groups marginalized?
-How might Levinas respond to the marginalization of women and other groups as seen in "What it is Like to be a Woman in Philosophy?"
-How does post-colonial theory expand the scope of ethical considerations?
-In what sorts of ethically reprehensible practices do we find ourselves tacitly complicit? (google it)
In the Ethics project, we looked at various thinkers who attempted to account for why we should be ethical and what being ethical entailed. We also looked at Nietzsche. However, we face the problem of marginalization. Marginalization entails taking one group or set of groups and making them the average or normative (sets the standard for what is regarded as "normal") and then leaving the other groups on the margins or outskirts. The ethics of the normative becomes the ethics of exclusion.
This project will entail becoming acquainted with some important aspects of marginal theory or the ethics of marginal groups. The main question marginal ethics asks is "Who counts?" That is, who matters in ethical considerations? In order to do this activity you must accomplish the following:
1. Read several of the entries from What it is Like to be a Woman in Philosophy followed by reading the response website.
2. Read this essay about Emmanuel Levinas, one of the great thinkers of marginal ethics.
3. Read an entry on either Post-Colonial Theory, Gender, or Critical Race Theory from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
4. Try you luck at PlaySpent.
5. Find a partner and discuss the following questions/ideas:
-What marginalized groups can you identify in your own experience?
-Have you ever found yourself marginalized or counted as a member of a marginalized group?
-How are these groups marginalized?
-How might Levinas respond to the marginalization of women and other groups as seen in "What it is Like to be a Woman in Philosophy?"
-How does post-colonial theory expand the scope of ethical considerations?
-In what sorts of ethically reprehensible practices do we find ourselves tacitly complicit? (google it)