This course explores in a seminar format the following themes: the theoretical underpinnings of nonviolence as a way of life and as a political and social strategy; the seminal thinkers and writers in the development of nonviolence; the moral basis, if any, for nonviolence; whether nonviolence itself can serve as a moral basis for other theories; the criticisms raised against theorists and practitioners of pacifism and nonviolence; the defenders and critics of the just war tradition; and the theoretical differences between pragmatic nonviolence and principled nonviolence. 3 credits.
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