POL 377 - t he politics of just wars

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Assumption University

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An examination of those reflections on just wars that illuminate the core of the political, military, religious and philosophic traditions within Western civilization over the last 2500 years. This course will begin by examining military justifications in both classical Greek thought and Roman republicanism, moving to the origins of just war theorizing in the early Church, Judaism and Islam. It also weighs modernity’s most serious criticisms of the moral and political teachings of the classical and Christian world against that tradition’s medieval and modern advocates. The course will also draw on a respectful engagement with pacifist and “Liberal Realist” perspectives and will concludewith a consideration of the contemporary debates that shape our moral and political discourse in order to show how the “Catholic New Left,” feminist political theory, Islamicterrorism, and the allure of a world without borders invite us to reconsider the very possibility of just wars. (Fall) Dobski/ Three credits

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.assumption.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 767-7000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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