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Reading for Class 02-03 - World Order with CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS - from Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice.pdf | Reading for Class 02-03 - World Order with CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 04 - RAWLS and His LAW OF PEOPLES - Samuel Freeman.pdf | Reading for Class 04 - RAWLS and His LAW OF PEOPLES | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 05 - POGGE against Rawlsian Claim about Domestic Causation of Injustice.pdf | Reading for Class 05 - POGGE against Rawlsian Claim about Domestic Causation of Injustice | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 06 - NUSSBAUM on Capabilities and Global Justice.pdf | Reading for Class 06 - NUSSBAUM on Capabilities and Global Justice | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 07 - SEN & NUSSBAUM on Global Justice and Global Pluralism.pdf | Reading for Class 07 - SEN & NUSSBAUM on Global Justice and Global Pluralism | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 08 - Global GENDER Justice - from Heather Widdows.pdf | Reading for Class 08 - Global GENDER Justice | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 09 - MARKETS and Justice - Welfare Economics and Markets Failures - from Reiss.pdf | Reading for Class 09 - MARKETS and Justice | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 10 - Nationalism & Global Democracy - by Kok-Chor Tan.pdf | Reading for Class 10 - Nationalism & Global Democracy | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 11 - SANDEL - Republican Critique of Liberalism - Liberalism and the Limits of Justice.pdf | Reading for Class 11 - SANDEL - Republican Critique of Liberalism | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. | |
Reading for Class 12 - MORALITY of SOLIDARITY as a Condition of Justice.pdf | Reading for Class 12 - MORALITY of SOLIDARITY as a Condition of Justice | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. |
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Since the course is intended primarily for students of social sciences, who are in need of intellectual tools to understand the complexity of our increasingly interconnected and yet also ideologically fragmented world, its main aim is to teach the skills of careful, thoughtful, rigorous, rational analysis of beliefs, problems and questions, which find no answers in natural sciences, because pertain to specifically human, “first person”, perspective of self-conscious subjects. Thus we will treat philosophical questions as “open questions”, which unsurprisingly have no definitive answers and yet have to be confronted by every individual who hopes to live a meaningful life and by every society hopes to create conditions for flourishing life of its members. Philosophy, since its inception in Ancient Greece, China and India, teaches critical engagement with beliefs, convictions, doctrines and dogmas taken for granted by most in an unreflective manner, thus often clearing the path for a social progress (Plato’s philosophical argument in favour of intellectual equality of men and women may serve as an example). On the other hand, philosophers (including the leading thinkers of the Western tradition), like all of us, tended to be blind to their own cultural prejudices and tended to ignore the contribution of other cultures. Living at the threshold of a Global Age, thoughtful human beings need to engage in a critical but constructive way with the wealth of the diverse intellectual and ethical traditions of humanity, therefore this course adopts a “global”, that is cross-cultural perspective in addressing the eternal human questions: “Who am I?”, “What can I know?”, “What should I do?”, “What can I hope for?” Last update: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (24.11.2021)
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COURSE READINGS. They will be extracted chiefly from the following anthologies: Ethics: The Essential Writings (ed. Marino) Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed. Perry, Bratman, Fischer) Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida (ed. Baird) Philosophy and Contemporary Issues (ed. Burr, Goldinger) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (ed. Pojman) The Truth about the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy (ed. Rachels)
Last update: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (24.11.2021)
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SYLLABUS
Philosophy for Social Sciences – JPM399 Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
COURSE CONTENTS: Class 1. Global Justice and the Evolving World Order (I) Class 2. Global Justice and the Evolving World Order (II) Class 3. Global Justice and the Evolving World Order (III) Class 4. Justice as utility (Utilitarians) Class 5. Justice as fairness (John Rawls) Class 6. Justice as entitlement (Robert Nozick) Class 7. The Theory of complex equality and the 'spheres of justice' (Michael Walzer) Class 8. Communitarians on domestic and global justice (Alistair MacIntyre & Michael Sandel) Class 9. Capabilities and Global Justice (Martha Nussbaum) Class 10. John Rawls and his 'Law of Peoples' Class 11. Globalizing Rawls or Global Distributive Justice (Thomas Pogge) Class 12. Utilitarianism on Global Justice (Peter Singer)
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
CLASS READINGS: All class readings will be uploaded in a PDF format on this webpage. They will be extracted chiefly from the following anthologies: Ethics: The Essential Writings (ed. Marino) Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed. Perry, Bratman, Fischer) Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida (ed. Baird) Philosophy and Contemporary Issues (ed. Burr, Goldinger) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (ed. Pojman) The Truth about the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy (ed. Rachels)
COURSE GRADING: Final Essay: 35% Final Written Exam: 65% Total: 100%
FINAL ESSAY INSTRUCTION:
TOPIC OF THE FINAL ESSAY: Each student will choose the topic of the final essay individually, by selecting one CLASS TOPIC explored in the relevant CLASS READINGS (uploaded on the current course webpage in the SIS), doing an additional approximately 100 pages of relevant scholarly reading on that topic (found on EBSO, JSTOR or other reliable sources of academic publications on problems social justice), and discussing intelligently, critically and creatively the issue under consideration. (Narrowing the focus of the discussion is always preferable to treating the research question in a shallow and vague manner.) LENGTH: 1600 to 1800 words
DEADLINE: 48 before your final exam
FINAL EXAM INSTRUCTION:
FINAL EXAM is an in-class 3 hours long written exam (students choose one of the three exam dates by registering in the SIS).
FINAL EXAM will include "discussing" 3 topics selected by the student from a list of 6-7 topics provided by the lecturer. Only the topics explored in the class readings will be included. The aim of the exam is to test students' command of the main ideas about justice explored in the class readings, and their ability to think about the problems of justice in a philosophical manner (i.e., rationally and critically, considering arguments employed by the authors studied throughout the semester).
GRADING SCALE:
Last update: Salamon Janusz, Ph.D. (19.04.2024)
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