Research summary
Human beings are social creatures who need to live together to survive and flourish. Yet scholars and policy-makers have devoted comparatively little attention to our social needs outside of the family, focusing instead on economic and more overtly political needs.
Dr. Kimberley Brownlee, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy, aims to remedy this. She and her research team are investigating three interconnected areas of human sociability: social human rights; the connection between sociability and human flourishing; and interactional ethics—that is, the ethics that govern ordinary interactions, including the distinctive virtues, vices, goods, harms and injustices that characterize them.