| Title: | Senior Seminar |
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| Course Section Number: | PHI-449-01 |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Description: | Despite the political upheavals through which actually existing communism underwent during the 20th century, Karl Marx's (1818-1883) philosophy continues to be useful not only for describing social relations in the 21st century, but also for providing norms to criticize unjust social relations. However, while orthodox Marxism explained social relations along the single category of class oppression, contemporary thinkers from the global south such as Charles Mills (1951-2021) and Enrique Dussel (1934-2023) offer innovative interpretations of Marx's central ideas to describe and criticize racial and colonial forms of oppression. Common to Mills and Dussel is that their appeal to Marx aims to challenge liberal ethical and political conceptions of justice and injustice by accounting for the material aspects of the oppression. This Senior Seminar will introduce students to Marx's philosophy through a detailed analysis of Mills' and Dussel's interpretations, as well as to these thinkers' challenge to ethical and political liberalism. Among others, these discussions will require us to consider topics in the philosophical areas of social ontology, epistemology, and ethics. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 26, 2026 |
| End Date: | December 19, 2026 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/26/2026-12/19/2026 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Room to be Announced
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| Faculty: | Montiel, Jorge |
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