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This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.
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- freedom
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- state
- historical debates
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- western european
- moral values
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- culture
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This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in t
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- ancient
- greek western
- philosophical
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- tradition
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- nature
- law
- justice
- knowledge
- virtue
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The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to bring to bear the viewpoint of those works on the study of classic works of literature. This subject will trace the history of ethical speculation in systematic philosophy by identifying four major positions: two from the anc
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- literature
- ethics
- values
- literature
- morality
- justice
- virtue
- literary theory
- responsibility
- politics
- plato
- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
- shaw
- dostoyevsky
- conrad
- bible
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This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.
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- literature
- extensive reading
- major poets
- evolution of each poet's work
- questions of poetic influence and literary tradition
- recognition of beauty
- justice
- lyric poetry
- novel
- philosophical prose and essays
- british literary authors
- 19th century
- literature
- foundational works in aesthetics from philosophers including plato and immanuel kant
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This course examines major texts in the history of political thought and the questions they raise about the design of the political and social order. It considers the ways in which thinkers have responded to the particular political problems of their day, and the ways in which they contribute to a broader conversation about human goods and
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- political science
- political theory
- social order
- history
- justice
- democracy
- state
- philosophy
- plato
- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- locke
- rousseau
- marx
- de tocqueville
- individual
- political science
- political philosophy
- politics
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Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry.
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- mathematics
- geometry
- history
- philosophy
- greek philosophy
- plato
- euclid
- aristotle
- rene descartes
- nicomachus
- francis bacon
- number
- irrational number
- ratio
- ethics
- logos
- logic
- ancient knowing
- modern knowing
- greek conception of number
- idea of number
- courage
- justice
- pursuit of truth
- truth as a surd
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- western european
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File: 24-200-fall-2004.zip
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- knowledge
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File: 21l-450-fall-2002.zip
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- literary theory
- responsibility
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- plato
- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- sophocles
- euripides
- shapkespeare
- swift
- ibsen
- shaw
- dostoyevsky
- conrad
- bible
File: 21l-704-fall-2005.zip
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- extensive reading
- major poets
- evolution of each poet's work
- questions of poetic influence and literary tradition
- recognition of beauty
- justice
- lyric poetry
- novel
- philosophical prose and essays
- british literary authors
- 19th century
- literature
- foundational works in aesthetics from philosophers including plato and immanuel kant
- as
File: 17-03-spring-2004.zip
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- aristotle
- machiavelli
- hobbes
- locke
- rousseau
- marx
- de tocqueville
- individual
- political science
- political philosophy
- politics
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- mathematics
- geometry
- history
- philosophy
- greek philosophy
- plato
- euclid
- aristotle
- rene descartes
- nicomachus
- francis bacon
- number
- irrational number
- ratio
- ethics
- logos
- logic
- ancient knowing
- modern knowing
- greek conception of number
- idea of number
- courage
- justice
- pursuit of truth
- truth as a surd
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- western european
- moral values
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- religion
- gender
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- ethnography
- case studies
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- natural
- western european
- moral values
- differences
- culture
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- state
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- natural
- western european
- moral values
- differences
- culture
- religion
- gender
- relationships
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- ethnography
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This OER is part of OCW: Violence, Human Rights, and Justice
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- violence
- human rights
- freedom
- peace
- justice
- citizens
- state
- historical debates
- cultural
- natural
- western european
- moral values
- differences
- culture
- religion
- gender
- relationships
- individuals
- collective groups
- ethnography
- case studies
- conflict
- globe
- war crimes tribunals
- truth commissions
- individu
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