Course Title |
Political Studies |
Course Overview |
This seminar is to examine contemporary and classical political theories, particularly that of "ethics in politics." |
履修条件 |
他学府生も含め、関心のある学生は全て歓迎するので、受講希望者は初回授業の前日までに担当者に必ずメールで連絡のこと。 |
授業の目的 |
前期に引き続き、「政治における倫理」について検討する。 |
授業の概要・計画 |
Introduction
Part I. Lyingin Politics 1. Murderers at the ballot box: When politicians may lie to bad voters. 2. The greatest liar has his believers: The social epistemology of political lying.
Part II. Nonideal Politicking 3. Nonideal politicians or nonideal circumstances?: Rethinking dirty hands 4. In defense of partisanship 5. A defense of senate obstructionism 6. Conviction and open-mindedness: A lesson on political revision from Adam Smith 7. Voter ignorance and deliverative democracy
Part III. The Ethics of Voter Reasoning 8. Must we vote for the common good? 9. Gender and the ethics of political representation 10. A demarcation problem for political discourse 11. Public reason and its limits: The role of truth in politics
Part IV. Why Vote? 12. Why bad voters can nonetheless be cast and why bad voters may cast them 13. The rationality of voting and duties of elected officials 14. A defence of the right not to vote 15. Expanding on the wrongness of bribery: The morality of casting a vote
Part V. Arguing on Other’s Behalf 16. Devil’s advocates: On the ethics of unjust legal advocacy 17. Prosecutors, guilty pleas, and the consequences of a conviction 18. Are lobbyists lawyers? |
授業の進め方 |
受講者による輪読形式。 |
教科書・参考書等 |
Crookston, E. M., D. Killoren and J. Trerise (eds.) Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents, Abingdon: Routledge 2017. |
成績評価の方法・基準 |
1.報告(50%) 2.レポート(50%) |
その他(質問・相談方法等) |
授業後のほかにアポイントメントによっても質問・相談を受け付ける。 |