Selves and Roles

Date
February 23, 2022
Readings

Dare (2020)

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We’ve been discussing the way that roles occupy our lives, whether these are family or social roles. We have been considering this issue as a Confucian issue having to do with the Confucian notion of the self. But is this really something peculiar to Confucianism? Exactly how pervasive are roles in human life? How much of our selves are constituted by roles? We explore these questions head on, and philosophically, in today’s reading.

Scholarly Articles

Dare 2020 - Roles all the way down.pdf101.6KB

Slides from Class Lecture

Slides from 'Roles and Selves' Feb 23.pdf656.0KB

Link to David Velleman’s Foundations for Moral Relativism

Note: This is an open-source book, free for downloading and reading.

Link to Paper Mentioned by Mohammad

Dong et al. 2019 - Perceptions of Social Roles Across Cultures.pdf472.9KB