Reading Schedule for Global Justice


Date           Reading

8/24	Introductions, Greetings, and Course Outline

8/26 	Christina H. Sommers:  “Teaching the Virtues”

8/31	Nussbaum:  “Womens Education_A Global Challenge”

9/7	Plato:		The Republic: Pages 1-40

9/9	Plato:		The Republic: Pages

9/14         Plato:		The Republic: Pages 41-53

9/16	Plato:		The Republic: Pages (to be announced)

9/16	Introduction to Taoism

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9/28      

10/5      Watson                 Chuang Tzu: Chapters 1-3

10/7     Watson                 Chuang Tzu: Chapters 1-3

10/12     Watson                 Chuang Tzu: Chapters 4-5

10/19 	Draft of Essay 1 Due in Class!

Comparative Justice and Human Rights

10/21 	Dallmayr: 	  “Asian Values and Global Human Rights”
     
10/26	Daniel Bell: 	  “The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights”

10/28	David Loy:  	“Buddhism and Poverty”             

11/2	Chandhoke:    “Quest for Justice: The Gandhian Perspective”
	

Poverty, Development, and Globalization 

11/4 	Pogge: 	            “Real World Justice”
                  		
11/9	Evans:               “The Limits of Tolerance: Islam as counter-hegemony?” 

11/16	Amartya Sen:   “Violence, Identity, and Poverty”


Gender and Sexuality

11/18	Maryam Khalid:   “Gender and the War on the Terror”

11/23	Weitzer: 	           “The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization”

11/25     Exam 

12/3-12/6    Student Essay Tutorials

12/24: Final Essay Due (via e-mail). 
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