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Human
Rights 201/301, Philosophy 316[1] Autumn
2000 Tuesdays and Thursdays 12-1:20 Thursdays, 12-1:20 Kent Chemical Laboratory 120 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mgreen |
Michael Green office: Gates-Blake 440 phone: (773) 702-8503 email: michaelgreen@uchicago.edu office hours: Tuesdays 2-4 Tuesdays, 2-4 |
“A Survey of Human-Rights Law”; Ignatieff “Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis”; Major International Human Rights Documents[2]
Raz “On the Nature of Rights”
Dworkin “Taking Rights Seriously”
Nagel “War and Massacre”
Cranston “Human Rights, Real and Supposed”; Shue Basic Rights
Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia; Scheffler “Natural Rights, Equality, and the Minimal State”
Kymlicka Multicultural Citizenship
Waldron “Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative”;
Kymlicka, pp. 101-105
** First paper topics distributed
Locke Second Treatise of Government; American Anthropological Association “Statement on Human Rights”; Williams Morality
Waldron “How to Argue for Universal Claims”
Bell ”The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights” Thursday; Donnelly “Human Rights and Asian Values”; Sen “Human Rights and Economic Achievements” (B)[3]
** First paper due Monday, 6 November
Reading, if any, will be announced
Gewirth “The Basis and Content of Human Rights”
MacIntyre After Virtue; Golding, “From Prudence to Rights: A Critique”
** Second paper topics distributed
Rawls The Law of Peoples, pp. 3-58[4]
Rawls The Law of Peoples, pp. 59-128
Pogge “An Egalitarian Law of Peoples”
Othman “Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State”; Chan “A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China” (B)
** All papers due Monday, 4 December
For undergraduate students. Two seven page papers, due 6 November and 4 December.
For graduate students. One fifteen to twenty page paper, due 4 December.
Warning: A draft, due mid-November, may be required.
For all students. (1) All assignments must be completed in order to pass the course. (2) Late papers will not be accepted. If you will be unable to complete an assignment on time, you must contact me before it is due. (3) Plagiarism will result in failure in this course and will be reported to the relevant academic authorities. Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as your own. If you are unsure about whether something would be plagiarism, please ask.
Readings for Human Rights I
Human Rights 201/301, Philosophy 316
“A Survey of Human-Rights Law” The Economist December 5, 1998.
“Major International Human Rights Documents” in The Philosophy of Human Rights ed. Morton E. Winston (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1989): 257-289.
American Anthropological Association. “Statement on Human Rights” American Anthropologist 49 (1947): 539-543.
Bell, Daniel A. “The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: Reflections on an East West Dialogue” Human Rights Quarterly 18 (1996): 641-667.
Chan, Joseph. “A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China” in Bauer & Bell: 212-237.[5]
Cranston, Maurice. “Human Rights, Real and Supposed” in Political Theory and the Rights of Man ed. D. D. Raphael (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1967): 43-53.
Donnelly, Jack. “Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of “Western” Universalism” in Bauer & Bell: 60-87.
Dworkin, Ronald. “Taking Rights Seriously” Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977): 184-205, 138.
Gewirth, Alan. “The Basis and Content of Human Rights” in NOMOS XXIII: Human Rights ed. J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (New York: New York University Press, 1981): 119-147.
Golding, Martin P. “From Prudence to Rights: A Critique” in NOMOS XXIII: Human Rights ed. J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (New York: New York University Press, 1981): 165-174.
Ignatieff, Michael. “Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis.” New York Review of Books May 20 1999.
Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995): 1-6, 26-33, 75-93, 101-115.
Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government Ch. II, §§ 4-6.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981): 66-71.
Nagel, Thomas. “War and Massacre” Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (1972): 123-144.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974): 10-11, 26-35, 48-51.
Othman, Norani. “Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari'a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State” in Bauer & Bell: 169-192.
Pogge, Thomas. “An Egalitarian Law of Peoples” Philosophy & Public Affairs 23 (1994): 214-218.
Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Raz, Joseph. “On the Nature of Rights” Mind 93 (1984): 194-214.
Scheffler, Samuel. “Natural Rights, Equality, and the Minimal State” in Reading Nozick ed. Jeffrey Paul (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1981): 148-168.
Sen, Amartya. “Human Rights and Economic Achievements” in Bauer & Bell: 88-99.
Shue, Henry. Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980): Ch. 1.
Waldron, Jeremy. “Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 25 (1992): 751-793.
Waldron, Jeremy. “How to Argue for a Universal Claim” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 30 (1999): 305-314.
Williams, Bernard. Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972): 20-25.
[1] Human Rights 201/301, Philosophy 316, History 293/393, Law 412, Law, Letters and Society 270, International Relations 316, Political Science 339, General Studies in the Humanities 287/387
[2] All unmarked readings are in a xeroxed course pack, available in Classics 11.
[3] Readings marked with (B) are in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, ed. Bauer and Bell.; available from the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
[4] The Rawls book is not in the course reader. It is available from the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
[5] Bauer & Bell = The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, ed. Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell.