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PHI 406 Philosophy of the Family
Global Business Consulting Program
Prague, Czech Republic
Dates: 1/26/27 - 5/14/27
PHI 406 Philosophy of the Family
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Anglo-American University
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Primary Subject Area: Philosophy
Instruction in: English
Course Code: PHI 406
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
DESCRIPTION
We all live in families. And we remain 'in' the family even if we do not cohabit with them. As such the concept of a family is very familiar. On the other hand, families are so diverse (and sometimes quite opaque, both to outsiders and to its own members) that it might seem difficult to generalise about them. And yet there are clearly some shared norms of what a healthy and unhealthy family is like, what a 'good' parent means, what a 'loyal' child would do, norms of what one reasonably owes to another person in virtue of their status as my step-sibling or my adoptive parent or my cousin. This is not a sociology or a law course: we are not aiming to describe patterns of family life in the modern West, nor to describe much of the laws that govern family conflicts. Our task is philosophical: that means we re looking at what 'family' means, or can mean, or ought to mean.