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Poslední úprava: Bc. Matej Cíbik, M.A., Ph.D. (12.09.2014)
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Matej Cíbik, M.A., Ph.D. (12.09.2014)
All the course reading will be made available in PDF form on Dropbox Berlin, Isaiah. Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays. New Ed edition. London: Pimlico, 1999. ---. Four Essays on Liberty. First Edition edition. London, New York etc.: Oxford Paperbacks, 1969. Berlin, Isaiah, Henry Hardy, and John Banville. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas. 2nd edition edition. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Crowder, George. "Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism." Political Theory 35, no. 2 (2007): 121-46. Dworkin, Ronald. A Matter of Principle. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Freeden, Michael. Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Galston, William A. Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Gray, John. Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political Thought. New Ed edition. New York: Routledge, 1996. Hampton, Jean. "Should Political Philosophy Be Done Without Metaphysics?" Ethics 99, no. 4 (1989): 791-814. Hardy, Henry. One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 2007. Lilla, Mark. The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin. First edition. New York: New York Review of Books, 2001. Mendus, Susan. Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives. 1 edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Nussbaum, Martha C. "Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism." Philosophy and Public Affairs 39, no. 1 (2011): 3-45. Okin, Susan Moller. "Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions." Ethics 108, no. 4 (1998): 661-84. ---. "Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender." Ethics 105, no. 1 (1994): 23-43. Rawls, John. "Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical." Philosophy and Public Affairs 14, no. 3 (1985): 223-51. Rorty, Richard. Richard Rorty: Philosophical Papers Set: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1): Volume 1. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Williams, Bernard. By Bernard Williams - In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument. 3 edition. Princeton University Press, 2007. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Matej Cíbik, M.A., Ph.D. (12.09.2014)
A final grade will be determined by: 1) Regular attendance and active participation on class discussions (30%) 2) A 20-30 minute presentation of required and suggested literature for a given week (30%) 3) A short (approximately 2000 words) argumentative paper on one of the topics of the course (40%) (In case there will be more students than available presentations, the remaining students will write a 4000 word essay worth 70% of the grade) |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Matej Cíbik, M.A., Ph.D. (03.12.2014)
Week 1: Introduction: Between the hedgehog and the fox Overview of the course and the topic, explaining the method of work, logistics, literature, and academic requirements
Week 2: Isaiah Berlin, value pluralism, and the dangers of political utopia (Presentation by Kirill Burenkov) Required reading: Isaiah Berlin: The Pursuit of an Ideal (In: The Crooked Timber of Humanity, p.1-20) Suggested reading: Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty, section VIII - The One and the Many (in: Four Essays on Liberty, 167-172)
Week 3: The critique of Berlin - Dworkin’s case for unity of value (Presentation by Jan Venclik) Required: Ronald Dworkin: Do Liberal Values Conflict? (In: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, 73-90) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Liberalism and Loss (In: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, p. 91-103)
Week 4 From pluralism to liberalism (Valentina d'Amore) Required: Bernard Williams: Introduction to Isaiah Berlin: Concepts and Categories (p. xix-xx - only the last two pages) Required: John Gray: What is Dead and What is Living in Liberalism (in: Post-Liberalism, p.284-313)
Week 5 Two concepts of liberalism (Freedeman Kleemeyer) Required: William Galston: Liberal Pluralism (excerpts: p. 3-4; 15-28) Suggested: George Crowder: Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism
Week 6 Toleration (Ivanna Dovhoruk) Required: Joseph Raz: Autonomy, Toleration and the Harm Principle (in: Justifying Toleraton: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives, S. Mendus (ed.), p. 155-175) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Toleration, A Political or Moral Question (In: In the Beginning There Was Deed, p. 128-138)
Week 7 Between the Good and the Right: liberal neutrality (Maria Brennan) Required: Ronald Dworkin: Liberalism (in: A Matter of Principle, p. 181-204) Suggested: Michael Freeden: Ideologies and Political Theory, chapter II.3.f (p. 259-275)
Week 8 Rawls’ political liberalism (Jiří Kalous) Required: John Rawls: Justice as Fairness - Political, not Metaphysical Suggested: Jean Hampton: Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics?
Week 9 Political Liberalism and Perfectionism (Christoph Schlesiger) Required: Martha Nussbaum: Political Liberalism and Perfectionist Liberalism
Week 10 Rawls and Relativism (Sophie Jackson) Required: Richard Rorty: Priority of Democracy to Philosophy (In: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, p. 257-282) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Human Rights and Relativism (In: In the Beginning There Was Deed, p. 62-74)
Week 11 Feminism (Manon Hechard) Required: Susan Moller Okin: Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions Suggested: Susan Moller Okin: Political Liberalism, Justice and Gender
Week 12 Religion in pluralist society (Marco Costa) Required: Henry Hardy: Taking Pluralism Seriously (in: The One and the Many, G. Crowder, H. Hardy (eds.) p. 279-292) Suggested: William Galston: Must Value Pluralism and Religious Belief Collide? (in: The One and the Many, G. Crowder, H. Hardy (eds.) p. 251-262) |