{"id":329,"date":"2015-08-26T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:52:47","slug":"ethics-course-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/ethics-course-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorical Theory and Ethics Course Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instructor<\/strong>: Diane Davis<br \/>\n<strong>Meeting Time\/Place<\/strong>: W 3:00-6:00 pm \/ Zoomland<br \/>\n<strong>Office Hours<\/strong>: T 1-2:30\u00a0and TH 12-1:30, and by appointment<br \/>\n<strong>Email<\/strong>:\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=ddd@mail.utexas.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ddd@utexas.edu<span class=\"screenreader-only\">\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethics can refer both to culturally transmitted standards of moral behavior and to critical reflection about what is good, what is right, and what is just. Ethical decisions, strictly speaking, become possible only when the former conflicts with the latter forcefully enough to unsettle the rhetorically constituted moral framework(s) through which one learns to see, think, and know.<\/p>\n<p>What are the conditions for such a conflict? What is required, in other words, for the edges of the frame through which one sees to come into view? Where would the prescription to \u201cbe ethical\u201d come from if not social norms? How do the conceptual schemes propagated by these very norms delimit the realm of ethical obligation? Is ethical obligation limitable? What are the socio-political implications of illimitable ethical obligation?<\/p>\n<p>In this seminar, we\u2019ll attend to enormously complex intersections of rhetoric and ethics, where decisions that are urgently required cannot be secured by any metaphysical foundation or contracted out to any authorizing agency, be it religious, political, philosophical, or scientific. We\u2019ll examine the devastating material consequences of neglecting the rhetorical dimensions of \u201cthe good,\u201d \u201cthe right,\u201d and \u201cthe just,\u201d and we\u2019ll contemplate the implications of an ethics that derives its force from an irreducible rhetoricity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/\">Home <\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/ethics-course-description\/\">Course Description\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/ethics-texts\/\">Texts\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/ethics-assignments\/\">Assignments\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/courses\/e-387m-rhetorical-theory-and-ethics\/ethics-schedule\/\">Schedule<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor: Diane Davis Meeting Time\/Place: W 3:00-6:00 pm \/ Zoomland Office Hours: T 1-2:30\u00a0and TH 12-1:30, and by appointment Email:\u00a0ddd@utexas.edu\u00a0(Links to an external site.) Ethics can refer both to culturally transmitted standards of moral behavior and to critical reflection about what is good, what is right, and what is just. 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