Course Overview

This course aims to familiarize students with topics of public philosophy and affords them with an overview of the field, especially those relating to international public policy. The main topics under discussion include themes such as basic normative theories, human rights theories, and global justice.

Learning Achievement

Goals of the course:
Capable of understanding and criticizing arguments regarding public philosophy.
Capable of debating philosophical topics while holding a dialogic attitude.
Acquiring profound knowledge of public philosophy.
Capable of using arguments of public philosophy for improving master’s research.
Acquiring an ethical attitude toward research.

Competence

General-propose competence: Communicative ability; Team work
Degree program competence: Research capability; Professional knowledge; Ethics

Course prerequisites

Participants are expected to make the effort to understand English-written philosophical papers.

Grading Philosophy

Submission of short writings 100%. Participants are required to submit short writing (around one page in A4 file) for each seminar, which must contain a short summary of and comments on the reading.

Course schedule

Participants will discuss based on their submitted comments on each chapter. Even though this course is categorized as a lecture, it is an interactive course.

Class 1: Introduction to the course
Class 2: ch. 1. Jacobin Legacy: The Origins of Social Justice
Class 3: ch. 2. National Welfare and the Universal Declaration
Class 4: ch. 3. FDR’s Second Bill
Class 5: ch. 4. Globalizing Welfare after Empire
Class 6: ch. 5. Basic Needs and Human Rights
Class 7: ch. 6. Global Ethics from Equality to Subsistence
Class 8: ch. 7. Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom
Class 9: Conclusion: Croesus’s World
Class 10: Discussion on the textbook

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

Online(Synchronous)(オンライン(同時双方向型) ).
If there is a request, it is possible to change it to "Online (Asynchronous) " or "Hybrid". In any case, I will explain in the first class, which is held synchronously.
It is planned to have this seminar via Zoom (or Microsoft Teams if it is requested).

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university