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Philosophy and Society, 1st module: Dimensions of Liberty

Semesterangivelse: Forårs kursus

 
Udgave: Forår 2013 Hum
Årsværk: 15 ECTS

Semester:

 1. af 1
Institutter: Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling
Undervisere: Karin Jønch-Clausen
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Indhold: The course explores themes on liberty in contemporary political philosophy. Prominent conceptions and discussions on the concept of liberty will be surveyed and their various social, legal and economic aspects will be considered. We will examine the relationship between liberty and law, liberty and economic justice and assess philosophical arguments for familiar liberty rights. The course addresses questions such as: What is negative and positive liberty? Is there a right to liberty? Does recognition of the importance of liberty lead to a requirement of political participation? How do we justify the constraints that our laws and institutions impose on us? What is the relationship between private property and liberty? Is there a conflict between equality and liberty?

An ongoing exercise will be to relate philosophical discussions on liberty to intuition and everyday life as well as current political discussions and events.
Litteratur: Miller, D 2006, The Liberty Reader, London: Paradigm Publishers (Essays by Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Gerald MacCallum, Phillip Pettit, Quentin Skinner and G.A. Cohen)

Hirschmann, N 1998, ‘Western Feminism, Eastern Veiling, and the Question of Free Agency’, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 5(3), 345-368.

Excerpts from: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty; John Rawls, A theory of Justice and Political Liberalism; Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
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Sidst redigeret: 7/11-2012



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