PHIL 259 - Philosophy of the Family

FDR: HU, GE4c
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2009 and alternate years

This course considers philosophical issues raised by family as a social institution and as a legal institution. Topics addressed include the social and personal purposes served by the institution of family, the nature of relationships between family members, the various forms that family can take, the scope of family privacy or autonomy, and how family obligations, mutual support, and interdependency affect individual members of families.Bell.