RELG 271 Lecture 2: Lecture 2

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

Document Summary

Lecture 2 wednesday, september 9, 2015 - sex and vulnerability. Curse: vulnerability as a negative thing, vulnerability as harm, equates vulnerability with being human [with human rights as the answer to. Change: vulnerability in so far as we are being acted upon in a world that is transforming, vulnerability means that we are going to experience change personal, environmental. Turner: our existence is an embodied existence, with dangers in our environment that we are aware. We have embodied encounters with a precarious world that are open to our interpretation. Thus, how do we move and function within this precarity. Gilson: vulnerability is going to include a certain amount of helplessness that we cannot avoid. Trying to bring two concepts together: agency and vulnerability. Being human is to be agent in a precarious world. Real human dignity is rooted in the ability to shape one"s life [through the cooperation with others].