Philosophy instructor Nick French is teaching a summer 2019 course called "Individual Morality and Social Justice," in which students address questions such as "What makes an action right or wrong, good or bad?" and "What's involved in living a good life?" The course also seeks to address the question of what a "just society" looks like, and how individuals should "respond to injustice."
The first half of the course is dedicated to addressing "how individuals ought to live." Later, students will analyze "the justice of social arrangements."
French argued in a recent Jacobin Magazine op-ed that people need to "dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains." The leftist magazine states that French is also a member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.
In the piece, titled "Even Nice, 'Generous' Rich People Are Not Your Friends," French suggests that having wealth is an automatic indication of immorality, even if one contributes that wealth to worthwhile social causes.
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