Anthro & Philo of the Body HON

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This multidisciplinary course examines critical questions raised by the human body and our lived experience. We ask how our natures as complex human persons with rational, biological, and spiritual elements are both formed in response to bodily experience and how, in turn, these elements impact our experience and sense of the possible. This leads us to inquire into the ethical norms and responsibilities that have been fashioned around the body, as they pertain both to oneself and others. Specific topics may include: cultural relativism; the sources of normativity; the ethics of suffering and enduring; the ethics of pleasure; duties and possibilities of kindness; ordinary and transformative lived experiences; the corporeality of inequality and injustice.