Course Readings

Author                                   Text

  1. 1.Christina H. Sommers:            “Teaching the Virtues”

  2. 2.Martha Nussbaum:                    Womens Education_A Global Challenge

  3. 3.Plato:                                         The Republic (Selections)

4. Watson (trans):                        Chuang Tzu (Selections)

5. Kant & Mill:                             (Selections)

6. Buddhist Sutta:                        “Setting the Wheel in Motion”

7. Buddhist Sutta:                        Malankyaputta & Vaccha Suttas

8. Buddhist Sutta:                        “Kisa Gotami and the Parable of the Mustard Seed”

9. Buddhist Sutta:                        Angulimala

10. Gandhi:                                    (Selections)

11. Huaiyu Wang:                         “The Way of the Heart: Mencius’ Understanding of Justice”

  1. 12.Daniel Bell:                              “Reconciling Socialism and Confucianism”

  2. 13.Daniel Bell:                       “The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights”

  3. 14.Dallmayr:                                “Asian Values and Global Human Rights”

  4. 15.Evans:                                               “The Limits of Tolerance: Islam as counter-hegemony?”

  5. 15.David Loy:                                “Buddhism and Poverty”

  6. 16.Chandhoke:                                    “Quest for Justice: The Gandhian Perspective”

  7. 17.Thomas Pogge:                          “Real World Justice”

17. Andrew Revkin:                       “A New Measure of Well-Being From a Happy Little Kingdom”

18. Peter Singer:                            “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”

19. Amartya Sen:                           “Violence, Identity, and Poverty”

20. Thomas: Pogge:                       “Growth and Inequality”

21. M. Yunus:                                     “Creating a World Without Poverty”

22. Maryam Khalid:                       “Gender and the War on the Terror”

  1. 22.Allison Jaggar:                         “Saving Amina: Global Justice for Women”

  2. 23.23. R. Weitzer:                         “The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking”

  3. 24.Jo Doezema:                           “Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: Sex Workers”

Here are most of the readings for our course. Just click on the title and it should download directly onto your computer. E-mail me here if you have any problems.