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Marburg, Germany - Course Descriptions - Justice as a Key Concept in Ethics and Political PhilosophyCourse Information
Contact Hours and CreditsSemester Session: 48 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter creditsAvailabilityChoose a session below to view the complete description of that session. Full DescriptionContent: "Justice is the first duty of social institutions." This claim, put forward by one the most influential political philosophers of the last decades, John Rawls, stands for the enormous impact the concept of justice has on coping with conflicting interests in modern society. But, how is this claim of justice to be justified? What does justice mean? Which obligations are to be derived from justice? How can people be motivated and institutions be incited to act in a manner corresponding to justice? Rawls dedicated much of his research activities on how to conceptualize justice in a way which can be assessed as theoretically sophisticated and practically applicable. At the end of a researcher’s life he published an imposing but yet brief summary of his thoughts in order to stimulate further discussions. The course will pursue reading, analyzing and discussing the text of Rawls’s final version of "Justice as fairness" and engross the thoughts by confronting Rawls’s ideas with alternative approaches to justice from different angles of humanities like political philosophy, ethics and theology. Two classes are part of this course: Evaluative Measures:
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