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Class number:
3413
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Title: Marxist Ethics |
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Department: Philosophy |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 11 |
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Available seats: 4 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: T: 1:30PM-4:10PM, MC - 205 |
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Instructor(s): Cooper, Dominick |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Karl Marx developed a variety of critical concepts to explain the nature of capitalism and its consequences for human flourishing. In this class, we’ll consider several of these concepts – freedom, exploitation, and alienation, to name a few – in Marx’s own work but also in the work of contemporary moral and political philosophers who engage with Marx's ideas. We will try to make sense of a Marxist ethical perspective, and how it can help us diagnose the ills of capitalism and shed light on alternatives to it.
This is not a traditional course on Marx himself, nor a survey of Marxism. Instead, we will read some of Marx’s writings, as well as contemporary philosophers who engage with Marx’s ideas in critical and constructive ways.
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