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Colleagues,
MIDWEST
FACULTY SEMINAR -- RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE
St. Ambrose (through the Center for Teaching
Excellence) is an institutional member of the Midwest
Faculty Seminar that is administered by the University
of Chicago. The next seminar will be on John Rawls' A
Theory of Justice. This book, published in 1970 has
been touted as one of the most important works in
political philosophy since the work of John Stuart Mill.
The Center pays just about all expenses for a faculty
member to travel to and attend the seminar at the
University of Chicago. The seminars are held from
Thursday evenings to Saturdays at noon. The Theory of
Justice seminar will be held from March 1-3 at U.
Chicago and is open to one or two faculty members
recommended by the Center. Information about the seminar
is attached below. Consider whether you would like to
apply. Applications are due in Chicago by February 7 so
if you would like to apply to attend this seminar get
your request to Paul Jacobson by
Friday, February 2.
John Rawls' A Theory of Justice -
March 1-3, 2007
Since its publication in 1971, A Theory of
Justice has sold more than 200,000 copies and been
translated into some two dozen languages. The seminal
work of the most significant moral and political
philosopher of the twentieth century, A Theory of
Justice has profoundly shaped contemporary
discussions of social, political, and economic justice,
democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism, and
international justice. This seminar will consider
Rawls's contribution to these crucial theoretical and
practical concepts. It will also examine Rawls's often
controversial relationships with feminism,
utilitarianism and communitarianism, the development of
his thought from A Theory of Justice to later
works like Political Liberalism, his place in the
long history of liberalism, and the continuing legacy of
his work, particularly in an era of both ethnically and
religiously diverse societies and of economic
globalization.
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