|
HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Philosophy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dani Attas
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 11:00-12:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Daniel Attas
Course/Module description:
Part B of the course deals with the central issues of political philosophy philosophy: authority, liberty, justice; and of meta-ethics: realism, expressivism, error theory.
Course/Module aims:
acquaintance with the the fields of moral philosophy and with the central
approaches within them.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to define the central questions in contemporary ethics and political philosophy. to
understand their theoretical and practical implications, and to critically evaluate the
arguments for each position.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lecture
Course/Module Content:
A. Political Philosophy
1. authority
2. liberty
3. rights
4. equality and justice - Rawls
5. fraternity and justice - communitarianism
6. liberty and justice - libertarianism and property
7. responsibility and justice - luck egalitarianism and social egalitarianism
B. Metaethics
8. Open question argument and the naturalistic fallacy
9. emotivism
10. error theory
11. naturalistic realism
12. non-naturalitic realism
13. quasi-realism
Required Reading:
T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Chs. 13-21.
R. Dworkin, Law's Empire, ch. 6
J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Book II chs 1-4.
I. Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty"
J. Locke, Of Civil Government, chs. 1-3, 7-9.
H.L.A. Hart "Are There Any Natural Rights?"
J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1971/1999, §§1-9
M. Walzer, Spheres of Justice, Blackwell, Oxford, 1983, Ch. 1, pp. 3-30.
R. Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia, Ch 7, section I, pp.
G. A. Cohen, "On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice", Ethics 99 (1989), pp.906-944.
Moore, G. E. (1903). Principia Ethica. Chpater 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, .
Ayer, A.J. (1936). Language, Truth and Logic. Chapetr 6, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Mackie, J. 1977. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. chapters 1 & 5. New York:
Penguin.
Miller, A. 2010. "Realism': Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/
Shafer-Landau, R. 2003. Moral Realism: A Defence. Part I. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Shafer-Landau, R. 2003. Moral Realism: A Defence. chapter 3. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Miller, A. 2003. An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics. Chapter 3-4, pp.
10-25. Oxford: Polity.
S. Blackburn, A Very Short Introduction to Ethics, Part one: "Seven threats to
ethics",pp. 9-48.
Additional Reading Material:
none
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
none
|
