Readings in political philosophy - AFSV00152

• Title: Readings in political philosophy
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2014
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (40)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 08.1 Philosophy; Exchange - 14.1 Political Sciences

Annotation

The discussion seminar will be devoted to three concepts in modern political philosophy: democracy, justice and equality. For each class we will read one of the papers listed below and after a short presentation (focusing mainly on the problems and questions in the text) we will discuss and analyze the main themes from the text.

Michael Walzer, Philosophy and Democracy
Robert A. Dahl, Procedural Democracy
Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy
J. Rawls, Justice as Fairness
R. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, chap. Distributive Justice
M. Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
B. Williams, The Idea of Equality
T. Nagel, Equality (in Mortal Questions)
A. Sen, Equality of What

All the texts will be available in pdf.

Last update: JIRSAJA1 (15.09.2013)

Course completion requirements

Assessments:

• participation in the seminar

• presentation

• final paper (2000 words)

Last update: JIRSAJA1 (03.09.2013)

Syllabus

4.10. - introductory meeting, distribution of presentations plus Michael Walzer, Philosophy and Democracy

11.10. - no class (conference)

18.10. - Robert A. Dahl, Procedural Democracy

25.10. - Joshua Cohen, Democracy and Liberty

1.11. - J. Rawls, Justice as Fairness

8.11. - R. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, chap. Distributive Justice

15.11. - no class, everybody invited for the International Plato Symposium on the Philebus (vila Lanna)

22.11. - no class (conference)

29.11. - M. Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self

6.12. - B. Williams, The Idea of Equality

13.12. - T. Nagel, Equality

20.12. - A. Sen, Equality of What

Last update: JIRSAJA1 (15.09.2013)