Justice in Politics and International Relations

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  Justice in Politics and International Relations - JPB595

  Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

   

  Instructor: Dr Janusz Salamon

  ETCS: 6 credits
  Prerequisites: None

  PLACE: Jinonice campus, classroom C123  
  

   

  TIME: MONDAY, 15:30-17:50 

   

  CONTACTS:

  Office hours: Monday, 14.00-15.30 - Jinonice campus, room C514; Tuesday, 12:30-14:00

  Email: janusz.salamon at fsv.cuni.cz

   

  COURSE OBJECTIVES.

  The aim of this course is to introduce students to the theories of justice in society (social justice) and in international relations (global justice). While the necessary historical and philosophical background of the age-long struggle for social justice will be taken into account, the main focus of the course will be the contemporary debates about justice in domestic and international politics. Since “theories of justice” constitute the central part of the contemporary political theory, the ideas of some of the most influential political theorists of the 20^th century will be discussed in the course of the semester, and the class readings will include fragments of some of the most important works of political philosophy of our times. Discussing various theories of justice, their relevance to the current political practice will always be considered (for example, by identifying how these theories of justice inform programs of various political parties and movements that are important part of the political scene in Europe and elsewhere).

   

  COURSE CONTENTS:

  Class 1. The plurality of the principles of justice and political anthropology as the point of departure of (most) theories of justice

  Class 2. Justice as virtue and justice as reciprocity (Plato and Aristotle)

  Class 3. Justice as respect for right (Stoics, Locke and Kant)

  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 READINGS.

  All readings will be available in electronic format available for download from the course website (in the SIS).

  Principal readings will be drawn from the following books:

  Robert C. Solomon, Mark C. Murphy (eds), What Is Justice? Classic and Contemporary Readings. 2^nd Edition, OUP, 2000.

  Alan Ryan (ed.), Justice, Oxford Readings in Politics and Government, OUP, 1993.

  John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

  Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia

  Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice

  Peter Dews (ed.), Habermas: A Critical Reader

  Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice

  Michael Sandel, Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do

  Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice

  T. Pogge, K. Horton (eds), Global Ethics: Seminal Essays, Paragon, 2008

  T. Pogge, D. Moellendorf (eds), Global Justice: Seminal Essays, Paragon House, 2008

  M.R. Amstutz, International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008

  P. Hayden (ed.),Ethics and International Relations, Ashgate, 2009

  R. Shapcott, International Ethics. A Critical Introduction, Polity, 2010

  G. Graham, Ethics and International Relations, Blackwell,1997

  T. Brooks (ed.), The Global Justice Reader, Blackwell, 2008

  N. Dower, World Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, 1998

  P. Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Yale University Press, 2002

  K. Hutchings, Global Ethics: An Introduction, Polity, 2010.

   

   

  FINAL EXAM & FINAL ESSAY INSTRUCTION

  The final exam and final essay instructions will be presented to the students in class since it requires an extensive explanation and presupposes some basic knowledge of the subject matter accumulated over the first part of the semester. The final essay will be due 48 hours before the final exam, that is at the very end of the semester.

   

  COURSE GRADING:

  Final Essay (ca. 1500-1700 words])               35%

  Final Exam                                                      65%

  Total                                                                100%

   

   

   

  GRADING SCALE:

  • A = 91-100 % – excellent
  • B = 81-90 % – very good
  • C = 71-80 % – good
  • D = 61-70 % – satisfactory
  • E = 51-60 % – minimal pass
  • F = 0-50 % – fail

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