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| Semester: | Spring 2024 |
| Number: | 0154-352-001 |
| Instructor: | Shawn Kaplan |
| Days: | Tuesday Thursday 1:40 pm - 2:55 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Science Building 308 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Notes: |
Crosslisted With 0960*310*001 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students study recent debates on the nature of justice and investigate whether the just society should promote: fairness, liberty, equality, the development of individual capabilities, or the communal good. Students use these theoretical debates to analyze recent egalitarian and libertarian social movements, e.g. Occupy Wall Street and the TEA Party. (Learning Goals:G;Distribution Reqs:Humanities) |
| Learning Goals: |
Course Learning Goals: By examining these philosophical debates, students will:• develop their critical thinking and interpretive skills for analyzing and evaluating arguments in general.• analyze arguments for their logical structure and cogency as well as consider the warrant for their claims.• develop their capacity for abstract thought.• develop their capacity for spoken and written self-expression• increase their understanding of the philosophical positions and debates on justice, including:* Rawls’ liberal account of justice as fairness.* Nozick’s libertarian account of justice.* Walzer’s communitarian critique of liberalism and libertarianism.* Dworkin’s liberal, egalitarian theory of justice.* Cohen’s luck egalitarianism.* Sen’s capability approach to justice.• apply their increased understanding and developed skills in: * making sense of societal conflicts.* assessing the positions and arguments of diverse views concerning justice.* considering their own ethical responsibilities regarding inequality and liberty claims.* to analyze recent egalitarian and libertarian social movements * forming their own arguments to rationally support their own convictions concerning justice. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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