PHIL 205
Community, Society and Rights
Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for PHIL 205.
Description
This course covers a range of topics including: cultural claims, the relevance of ethnicity and culture to group rights, problems accommodating cultural claims in a multicultural society, the theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke as to the existence of a "state of nature" and the emergence of the political state, as well as the concept of sovereignty, social contracts and political amalgamations between sovereign units. There will be detailed discussion of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Availability 2012
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Professor Gillian Brock
Distinguished Professor Stephen Davies
Recommended Reading
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
PHIL 205: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points in Philosophy, or 30 points in Political Studies