RELG 271 Lecture 1: Lecture 1- Sex and Human Vulnerability

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jonathan Waind

Document Summary

Contemporary approaches: curse (goodin, macintyre, turner) To be human, is to be vulnerable: choice (brown) Embracing vulnerability: more positive o living well has to involved embracing vulnerability, change (ghelen, culp) Vulnerability means that we will experience change: condition (nussbaum, fineman, gilson) vulnerability is not necessarily negative taking feminist arguments to support this idea. Bryan turner: obvious corporeality of existence (9, open to angers of [our] environment and conscious of[our] precarious circumstances (28) [p]ervasive, fundamental, shared, and something we cannot over entirely avoid. [openess] to being affected and affecting in ways that one cannot control (2). Whereas turner believes that to be human, is to be vulnerable *different* Lactantius (c. 250-325 ce): human beings: again, being vulnerable is not necessarily bad (this is not a quote by nussbaum, but one that projects a similar idea, a condition of humanity. Ontological reality of our susceptible embodiment corporeal dimension of existence o: morbidity and morality.