SPECIAL NOTE:
unit offered subject to sufficient numbers
OFFERINGS
Not Offered
DESCRIPTION
Examines a number of current approaches to issues of equity, equality and freedom that perennially trouble the liberal conscience. Beginning with John Rawls'
Theory of Justice the unit examines the justice oriented thinking of Dworkin, Barry, the communitarian modifications of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor together with the criticism of new liberalism posed by feminists like IM Young and Ann Phillips and sceptical ironists like John Gray and Richard Rorty.
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.
Special approval is required for enrolment into TNE Program units - campuses A, F, G, K, Q and Y click here for more information.
