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Lecturer(s)
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Šimsa Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics: 1. A brief introduction to the life and work of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas and an introduction to their debate 2. Rawls: A Theory of Justice (1971) 3. Habermas: A Theory of Communicative Action (1981) 4. Habermas: Facticity and Validity: A Discursive Theory of Law and the Democratic Rule of Law (1992) 5. Rawls: Political Liberalism (1993) 6. Habermas: Reconciliation through the Public Use of Reason: Notes on John Rawls's Political Liberalism. (1995) 7. Habermas: Reconciliation II 8. Rawls: Political Liberalism. A Reply to Habermas. (1995) 9. Rawls: Reply II 10. Rawls: Reply III 11. Habermas: "Reasonable" versus "True", or the Morality of Worldviews. (1996) 12. Debate comments: Forst: The justification of justice: Rawls and Habermas in dialogue; Audard: Rawls and Habermas on the place of religion in political dominion. 13. Debate comments: Flynn: Two models of human rights: Extending the Rawls-Habermas debate; Bohman: Beyond the overlapping consensus: Rawls and Habermas on the limits of cosmopolitanism 14. Debate evaluation. Colloquium
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce the key works of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas and to focus in particular on their mutual discussion, study, analysis and criticism of their basic arguments and acquaintance with their most famous commentators and critics. Reading and critical analysis of mutual polemical studies, two by Habermas and one by Rawls.
The student will acquire the following professional knowledge: - Will become familiar with the indirect and direct debate between probably the most important political philosophers of the 20th century. - Will be able to present and assess the main arguments of Rawls and Habermas in their mutual debate. Will be able to place the aforementioned debate in the broader context of contemporary Western philosophy
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral or written report on one study related to the debate Active participation in the seminar, seminar protocols Minimum 70% active participation in the seminar Passing a colloquium on the texts discussed.
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Recommended literature
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