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New
Course Announcement – Spring 2003
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The Ethics of War |
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Philosophy
304 - Multicultural Ethics: War
Tuesdays 4:00-6:50
Counts for CH II and World Cultures Credit
Dr.
Joseph Runzo
This
course is an in-depth study of the ethics of whether, when and how to
wage war. In the course we will take a global, multicultural
perspective, considering examples from throughout history and around
the world. Both
philosophical texts and military texts will be used and there will be
an extensive treatment of film. Just
war theory and pacifism, or nonviolence, will be addressed in detail.
Guest lecturers will include Professors Kevin O’Brien,
Matthew Schneider and Paul Gulino of Chapman and Professor David
Chappell of Soka University of America.
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Books |
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The
Art of War
(Sun Tzu)
The Book of War
(John Keegan)
Buddhist Peacework – Creating Cultures of
Peace (David W. Chappell)
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for
Global Justice (Goeffrey
Robertson) |
Morality
and Contemporary Warfare
(James Turner Johnson)
Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of
Nonviolence in
Religious
Traditions
(Daniel Smith-Christopher)
War and Our World (John
Keegan)
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Films |
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Greek Fire V. 5: War
(Ancient
Greece)
The Civil War: 1864 (Ken Burns)
The West: Death Runs Riot
(Ken
Burns)
Zulu (South Africa, 19th Century)
Breaker Morant
(Boer War, S. Africa)
The Battleship Potemkin
(Russian Revolution)
Gallipoli (WWI, Australian)
Grand Illusion
(French, after WW I)
War Comes to America
(Frank
Capra, WW II)
The Highest Honor
(WW II – Japanese/U.S.) |
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Gandhi
(Nonviolence vs. British
Rule)
War and Peace - Jang Aur Aman
(South
Asia)
Hiroshima (Documentary)
Sakharov
(H-bomb Designer/Nobel Prize)
To Live (Chinese Revolution)
Hearts and Minds
(U.S.,Vietnam War)
The Awakening Bell
(Buddhism
& Vietnam War –
Thich Nhat Hanh)
Ethics for the New Millennium
(Dalai Lama)
Rhapsody
in August (Kurasawa
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Japanese-Americans and
Nagasaki) |
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