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Exploring a Liveable Life: Norms, Self, and Other in Human Valuation

Delve into the concept of a liveable life, exploring the roles of Self and Other, desires, and social norms in shaping human valuation. Unpack the idea of norms as evolving standards that frame what is considered human and examine how performance influences perceptions of gender, sexuality, religiosity, ethnicity, and identity.

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Exploring a Liveable Life: Norms, Self, and Other in Human Valuation

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  1. “Liveable” Life

  2. What’s a Liveable Life? • What would a liveable life look like? • How do you frame a liveable life?

  3. Where does the idea of Self come from?

  4. Where does the Idea of Other come from?

  5. Body Self – Autonomy Other – Relationship of vulnerability Language – Behaviour, learned over time Desire – How is desire produced?

  6. What’s a human? • How are humans valued? • Are some more human than other? • How are some outside the frame of being considered human? • Those outside the frame can be called real?

  7. Social Norms • Norm: “implicit (or hidden) standard of normalization” –Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender • Norm is not a rule; Norm is not a law • Norms determine the frame to evaluate what’s human and what’s subhuman. • Norms evolve continuously: standards of normal also change. Who’s added, Who’s taken out? • Norms are necessary?

  8. Performance • How do norms set the frame of a liveable life? • Performance: gender, sexuality, religiosity, ethnicity, identity.

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