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PHIL41900

Academic Year 2024/2025

Adv Topics Value Theory 1(TCD) (PHIL41900)

Subject:
Philosophy
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Philosophy
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Professor Rowland Stout
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Since Arendt keeps morality and politics sharply distinct, the first part of the module will be dedicated to Arendt’s conception of morality and politics, her reasons for keeping moral values out of the political realm, and her reasons for keeping moral and political judgment distinct. This will lead us to question whether morality informs or impedes political decision-making. The second part of the module will question whether or not basing political judgment on aesthetic judgment is a better alternative. If beauty is ‘in the eyes of the beholder,’ does it follow that Arendt ‘aestheticizes’ politics? How can citizens objectively distinguish between the political values of right and wrong if the aesthetic values of beauty and ugliness are relative?

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module student should be able to question whether morality informs or impedes political decision-making.

Indicative Module Content:

This module will analyze the relationship between aesthetic and political judgment. Specifically, we will focus on the analogy that Hannah Arendt draws between distinguishing beauty from ugliness, right from wrong.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

22
Autonomous Student Learning

178
Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The course will be delivered in small seminar format in the Department of Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): 1 Essay at end of module worth 50% Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

50

 Yes
Exam (In-person): 1 Mid Term Exam worth 50% Week 6 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

50

 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

The complete reading list, including primary and secondary literature, will be finalized at the beginning of the term. Our central texts will be excerpts from the following:
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958).
• Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, ed. Ronald Beiner (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• Hannah Arendt, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” Responsibility and Judgment, ed. Jerome Kohn (New York: Schocken Books, 2003).
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987).
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