PHIL 103

Freedom, Rights and Justice

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for PHIL 103.

Description

Considers various questions concerning the relation between individuals and political societies such as: What principles of justice should communities adopt? What are rights? What limits can legitimately be placed on individual liberty? What is the source and nature of citizens’ obligations to obey the law? Why do we identify with groups – be they ethnic, geographic, religious, or ideological – and favour members of our own group over members of others? What political issues does this tendency raise? What makes a decision procedure democratic and why does it matter? Questions like these will be considered in relation to the New Zealand context.

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Availability 2017

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Dr Matheson Russell

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

PHIL 103: 15 points