Questions surrounding sex and gender, and sexual equality and freedom, are especially fraught these days, both personally and politically. To explore these questions, we’ve designed the seminar with the foundational questions of the Western tradition in mind: First, who am I? (Questions of body and soul and the relationship between them.) Second, given who I am, how am I to live? (Questions of education and wisdom, virtue and happiness, sex and marriage, and work and family obligations.) And finally, how are we to live together? (Questions of friendship and the common good, political freedom and legal equality, rights, the purpose of law, and the ends of government.) So we move quite intentionally from metaphysics to ethics to politics. And, importantly, we ask these questions with “sex and gender” foremost in mind.