政治学研究第二

最終更新日:2018年6月8日

授業科目名
政治学研究第二
標準年次
研・専
講義題目
政治における倫理IV
開講学期
後期
担当教員
蓮見 二郎(HASUMI J.)
単位数
2単位
教  室
科目区分
使用言語
Japanese
科目コード
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。