Unit 5: Ethics of the Future

Week 21

Tuesday, February 14

• Parfit, Divided minds and the nature of persons
• Opar, Why we procrastinate
• Plenary with small groups: Should ethics care about the future?

Tuesday, February 16 (am)

• Buddhist no-self views
• Plenary: Should I care about future me? (cont.)

Tuesday, February 16 (pm)

• Benatar, Better Never to Have Been (ch 2)
• Section: The obligation of reproduction

Week 22

Tuesday, February 21

• Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (2006)
• Plenary: Ethics and Reproduction

Thursday, February 23 (am)

• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
• Section: Medicine and subjectivity

Thursday, February 23 (pm)

• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (cont.)
• Plenary and small groups: Medicine and subjectivity

Week 23

Tuesday, February 28

• Section: Should I care about people who do not (yet) exist?

Thursday, March 2 (am)

Thursday, March 2 (pm)

Week 24

Tuesday, March 14

• Beyoncé, Black is King (2020)
• Plenary and small groups: Essentializing Africa

Thursday, March 16 (am)

• Black is King (cont.)
• Christin Smith, Loren Saxton Coleman, “Ancestor is king: the role of Afrofuturism in Beyoncé’s Black is King”
• Section: Essentializing Africa

Thursday, March 16 (pm)

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Fantastic Four #54 (July 1966)
• Plenary: Essentializing Africa