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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sue Wilks.
Prerequisite: 25.0 credit points in Philosophy subjects, or approved equivalent.
Contact: A 3-hour seminar each week, except during block periods of School Experience.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- identify social issues that remain unresolved;
- engage in informed philosophical thinking on a number of important social issues; and
- recognise divergent values at work in discussions about how these issues can best be resolved.
Content:
An exploration of contemporary social issues. The importance of dialogue in a "community of enquiry" as a method of dealing with them. Issues will include: Is society entitled to restrict a person's behaviour on the grounds that it is immoral, offensive, harmful to that person? In what sense, if any, are all persons equal, and how should that equality be recognised?
Assessment:
Two essays of approximately 1500 to 2,000 words each (33.3 per cent each); satisfactory presentation of a workshop activity (33.3 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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