Theories of Justice
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course will introduce students to the contemporary philosophical debate about justice, paying special attention to questions of social and global justice. It will address general questions about the validity of our opinions about justice, the status of theories of justice, and the relation between justice and equality, and specific problems of justice concerning the social division of labour and wealth, the value of individual freedom and its limitation, the public treatment of disagreements about morality and happiness, the protection of human rights and the fight against world poverty.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the course students should have acquired:
- knowledge and understanding of the main philosophical conceptions of justice and of their implications for legislation and public policies;
- the capability to apply acquired knowledge to elaborate and defend in a public debate a personal normative position on specific problems of justice.
- knowledge and understanding of the main philosophical conceptions of justice and of their implications for legislation and public policies;
- the capability to apply acquired knowledge to elaborate and defend in a public debate a personal normative position on specific problems of justice.
Lesson period: Third trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Third trimester
Professor(s)
Reception:
The professor meets the students weekly, on campus or online. To make an appointment, please contact the professor by email.
On campus meetings will be held in the professor's office at the second floor of the building overlooking via Passione (room 208). Online meetings will be held through Microsoft Teams.