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ES.114 Non-violence as a Way of Life
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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Credit cannot also be received for ES.9114
Lecture: TR1-2.30 (24-623)

Addresses the philosophical question of what a non-violent life entails. Investigates its ethical dimensions and challenges, and considers whether we can derive a comprehensive moral theory from the principle of non-violence. Discusses the issues of lying, the duty to forgive, non-violent communication, the ethics of our relationship to anger, the possibility of loving enemies, and the ethics of punishment and rehabilitation. Includes readings from primary exponents of non-violence, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi and King.
L. Perlman
Spring: L. Perlman
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