TH317 Ethics: The Face of the Other   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: TH201. What does it mean to confront the 'face of the other'? Dostoevsky's character, Ivan Karamazov, complains that it is impossible to love one's neighbor for they have 'smelly, ugly faces'. Theologians, however, have argued that it is only in embracing the other that one's divine image is most fully realized. This course investigates various writings on this theme throughout recent centuries.