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This course will incorporate a variety of methods to encourage deep reading and thinking, and collaboration among our students. We will help students to deepen their reading skills through regular short writing exercises, such as guided journals, study guides/questions, and Google-docs collaborative writing exercises, as well as through virtual Blackboard blogs and discussion boards. We will begin the semester with a trip to a local peace center, such as Brandywine Peace Community, to help build cohesion in our learning community, and to introduce students to alternative visions and life practices. In class we will strongly encourage group discussions as an essential part of the course, and emphasize the importance of longer individual writing projects through which students will engage, summarize, evaluate and respond imaginatively to the many conceptions of peace they encounter throughout the semester.
SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aquinas, Saint Thomas. “Question 29 Of Peace” and “Question 40 Of War.” Summa Theologica, Part II-II. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Kindle Edition.
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by Terence Irwin. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985.
Augustine. City of God. Translated by Henry Bettenson. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
Gandhi, Mohandas. All Men Are Brothers. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2005.
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1968. Edited by Edwin Curly. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994.
Kant, Immanuel. On Perpetual Peace. Translated by H.B. Nisbet. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Random House, 2011.
Plato. Republic. Translated by G.M.A. Grube & C.D.C Reeve. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 1992.
Williams, Jody. My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
FILMS
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle. Dir. Ray Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores. The Cinema Guild Inc., 1997. Film. (Purchase)
King, Jr., Martin Luther. Beyond Vietnam (April 20, 2008). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17HXUvMebk
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks: Peace and Prosperity. Dir. Sian Edwards. National Geographic Video, 2008. Film.
Peace is Every Step - Meditation in Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh. Dir. Gaetano Kazuo Maida. Festival Media, 2005. Film.
Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace (January 2011). Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/speakers/jody_williams.html
REL/PHI 290
Also satisfies requirements in the religion and philosophy depts.