E-Seminar : Women, justice, recognition and religion. Thinking these concepts together from Martha Nussbaum

DESCRIPTION 

In the course of her now very significant international philosophical career, Martha Nussbaum has regularly been proposing challenging arguments and perspectives on women in economy, social and political settings, cultural and religious situations. She had done so with approaches on justice, equality and freedom. This seminar will be about introducing students to her propositions and arguments and to some of the discussion fostered by or around them. In doing so, it also has as an objective to situate her amongst other modern and contemporary thinkers on these matters.

Objectives : 

- To introduce Martha Nussbaum's philosophical approach and situate it within the spectrum
of feminist options
- To discover the philosophical options underpinning Martha Nussbaum's proposals
Nussbaum's proposals concerning women, the economy, society, politics and the
religious
- Use Nussbaum's proposals to reflect on various contemporary
contemporary issues

Learning outcomes : 

- Keep on, endlessly, developing one’s reading capacity with charitable and critical eyes
- Capacity to articulate arguments and evaluate them critically
- Capacity to expose anthropological presuppositions to ethical and or political arguments
- Capacity to focus intervention in rational philosophical discussions
- Capacity to situate philosophical arguments in their philosophical contexts as
made possible in specific social, political and cultural contexts