Theory of Justice

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

4

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Школа философии и культурологии

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This is an elective course to be offered at the second year of master’s program ‘Philosophical Anthropology’. It will deal with the major theories of justice, which have evolved within the American analytic tradition in the early 1970th up to now. This is a course in practical philosophy and we are going to regard the major theories not as a history of philosophy by as practical models applicable to the organization of the contemporary society.

Learning Objectives

• The objective of the course is to make students familiar with the major contemporary theories of justice and the development of the necessary analytic skills of evaluation of any normative conception of justice as well as the capacity to participate in the public discourse on justice, which is about to emerge.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The knowledge of the basic communitarian theories and the understanding of the general logic and scope of communitarian thought.
• The knowledge of the major paradigms of the just war theory. Understanding of the meaning and scope of the principles of the just war doctrine. The capacity to evaluate the current warfare from the point of view of justice
• The knowledge of the major theories of utilitarian justice from Bentham to the contemporary welfare utilitarianism
• The knowledge of the system of arguments of John Rawls Theory of Justice. Understanding of its methodology and normative principles
• The students come to understand the basic ethical theories and the role of theories of justice in these theories
• The students come to understand the specificity of the language of justice and basic distinctions such as General Justice, Particular Justice and Formal Justice
• Understanding of the major developments in the Political Liberalism in comparison to Theory of Justice
• Understanding of the Marxist critique of justice and the possibility of reconstruction of the positive normative system of justice in the analytical marxism
• Understanding of the methodology and normative principles of feminism and the knowledge of the major theories
• Understanding of the methodology and normative principles of the contemporary liberatarianism including the theory of Robert Nozick
• Understanding the major specificity of the rationalistic methodology of Morals by Agreement and the principles of justice stemming from it

Course Contents

• Ethics, Morality, Justice
• Language, Logic and Meaning of Justice
• Utilitarian Theory of Justice
• John Rawls. A theory of justice
• Political Liberalism
• Libertarian Theory of Justice
• Justice by Agreement
• Marxist critique of justice
• Feminism and justice
• Communitarian Critique of Justice
• Just War Theory

Assessment Elements

• Homework
• Essay of 10 thousand characters at maximum, related to one of the topics in the syllabus.
  The essay is due by the end of the first module
• Research paper of 20 thousands characters
• Oral exam.

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  0.25 * Oral exam. + 0.25 * Homework + 0.25 * Research paper of 20 thousands characters + 0.25 * Essay of 10 thousand characters at maximum, related to one of the topics in the syllabus.

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Aristotle. (2012). The Nicomachean Ethics. [United States]: Start Publishing LLC. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=811459
• Gauthier, D. P. (1986). Morals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=264727
• Nozick, R. (2013). Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=677086
• Rawls, J. (2005). Political Liberalism (Vol. Expanded ed). New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=944944
• Sandel, M. J. (1998). Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Vol. 2nd ed). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=510958
• SANDEL, M. J. (2011). Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Boston University Law Review, 91(4), 1303–1310. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=65227273
• Scanlon, T., Brenkert, G. G., Cohen, M., & Nagel, T. (1980). Marx, Justice and History : A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=791912
• Singer, P. (1993). A Companion to Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=44509
• Soifer, E. (1992). Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction. Reviewed by. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.2A4B4AD9
• Thomas Christiano. (2018). Introduction to symposium on contemporary moral and political philosophy. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, (2), 117. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.sae.pophec.v17y2018i2p117.118
• Walzer, M. (2006). Just and Unjust Wars : A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (Vol. Fourth edition). New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=982029
• Young, I. M., & Allen, D. S. (2011). Justice and the Politics of Difference (Vol. Paperback reissue with a new forword by Danielle Allen). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1891884

Recommended Additional Bibliography

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• Brennan, S. (1999). Robert Goodin, Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy. Reviewed by. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.CC4AF80B
• Bykvist, K. (2010). Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=344279
• Cameron, D. (2019). Feminism : A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1941140
• Campbell, T. D. (1981). Judging Justice. An Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Book). Philosophical Quarterly, 31(125), 377–378. https://doi.org/10.2307/2219413
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• Halfond, I. (2019). Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick. Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=ers&AN=89876384
• Hannam, J. (2014). Feminism (Vol. 2nd ed). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=797720
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• Mandle, J. (2009). Rawls’s ’A Theory of Justice’ : An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=304401
• Miller, D., & Dagger, R. (2006). Utilitarianism and Beyond: Contemporary Analytical Political Theory. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.3F97381B
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• Walzer, M. (2008). Spheres of Justice : A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=553616
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