阿玛迪亚.森和另外两位教授在哈佛的<权利,自由和社会选择>课程的阅读材料.
Philosophy 272w
RIGHTS, LIBERTY AND SOCIAL CHOICE
Thomas Scanlon, Amartya Sen and Richard Tuck
Office Hours
Scanlon: Tuesdays, 2:30 -
4:00 Emerson 321 (email: scanlon@fas.harvard.edu)
Sen:
Mondays 11:1
5- 12:00, Littauer 205, Walk-in, no appt. needed
Tuesdays 11:00 – 12:00, Littauer 205, by
appointment only (email:
weiner@fas.harvard.edu)
Tuck:
Mondays 3:15
– 4:15, or by appointment (email:
rtuck@latte.harvard.edu)
Requirement: Regular
participation in classes and a term paper of about 25 standard
typed pages. A proposal on the subject of the
paper, with a motivating description, should be submitted before
the Thanksgiving break. The final papers are due
by January 15.
Course Description: Ideas of rights and liberty, including human
rights; their historical development, their place in contemporary
political philosophy, and their relation to theories of social
choice.
Weekly Program:
Week 1 (Sept
18)
Introductory Statements (AS, TS, RT)
Week 2 (Sept
25)
The Idea of Human Rights (AS)
Week 3 (Oct
2)
Rights and the Social Contract (RT)
Week 4 (Oct
16)
Bentham and the Critique of Rights (RT)
Week 5 (Oct
23)
Arguing for Rights (TS)
Week 6 (Oct
30)
Conflicts and Balancing of Rights (TS)
Week 7 & 8 (Nov 6 &
13)
Social Choice: Rights, Liberty and Games AS)
Week 9 (Nov
20)
Cultural Difference and Minimalism about Human Rights (TS)
Week 10 (Nov
27)
Rights and Revolution (RT)
Week 11 (Dec
4)
Rights and Socialism (RT & AS)
Week 12 (Dec
11)
General Discussion (AS, TS, RT).
Suggested Background Reading:
Jeremy Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights (Oxford,
1984)
Jeremy Waldron, ed., Nonsense Upon Stilts (Methuen,
1987)
Readings for the Sessions
The Idea of Human Rights (September 25)