ReadingSched

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

9/21

9/23

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).