Welcome Back
Today, we’re going to do a couple of things. First, we’re going to talk about ritual, and finish up our work on Xunzi by thinking about conscious ritual design for the purposes of cultivating virtue. After that, we’ll have a briefing for the mid-term paper.
Discussion
In breakout groups, we’ll check in, and discuss your ritual maps from last time.
Ritual Design#
Now, I’m going to put you in groups, and ask you to design a new ritual for Parami that might help us all develop virtue. This can be online or offline. Think about:
- the precise virtues you want to develop
- what the ritual will be
- the practicalities of how the ritual will take place
- how this ritual can develop or support this specific (or these specific) virtues.
Homework
The homework for this time is to read the reading on care ethics, which will be our topic next week. Read the terrific paper: Held, V. (2005). The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory. In V. Held (Ed.), The ethics of care: Personal, political, and global . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0195180992.003.0002. The reading is on Canvas.
There will be a discussion board task to fill in before the next class.