The Dialectic: ASU Philosophy Camp
Event description
- Academic events
- Open to the public
2025 Topic: Everyday Ethics and The Good
Everyday we have to make choices. What to eat for breakfast, whether to be grateful for our parents and teachers, and how rebellious we should be. How many of those choices concern what is good or moral? How many things that we encounter during the day – from moods to movies – matter outside of the pleasure they bring us?
Some guiding questions that we will be engaging:
- Are all choices moral?
- Is beauty valuable?
- Do stories reflect ethics?
- How should emotions affect behavior?
- What do we owe to our friends and families?
- What makes for a good life?
For one week, you are a college student, working with ASU’s graduate students, to investigate these questions – coming to campus in the morning and leaving in the evening. You will get to meet a handful of ASU professors as they come in to give guest lectures. We will be drawing from Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Wellbeing. In the meantime, you’re hanging out with your peers that want to look at life a little more carefully. You're part of an intellectual community. You’re running around campus, eating in dining halls, peeking into the life of a college student!