When, if ever, is warfare justified? What about humanitarian intervention? What about violent revolution and terrorism? Why should civilians be protected in conflict? This unit will introduce students to theoretical approaches to the ethics of conflict that will allow them to answer these difficult questions. It will also serve to introduce students to basic ideas in moral and political philosophy. No background in philosophy is required: merely an interest in rational argument applied to global conflict. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Andy Lamey
Prerequisites: Either a first-year Philosophy sequence, or a first-year International Studies sequence, or a first-year Bioethics sequence or a first year sequence in Human Rights Theory
