Home - ACU (The Australian Catholic University)

Site Navigation

PHIL608 Pluralism, State and Civil Society

20 cp
Prerequisites
Nil
Teaching Organisation This unit involves 150 hours of focused learning. The total includes formally structured learning activities such as lectures, tutorials, online learning, video-conferencing or supervision. The remaining hours typically involve reading, research, and the preparation of tasks for assessment.

The main focus of this unit is the debate in contemporary Western democracies over the question of what is properly a matter of private morality and what is properly a matter of public policy and law - the debate over liberty and authority. The first part of this double unit will consider the liberal and communitarian conceptions of self and society which inform this debate, together with specific cases where personal liberty and political and legal authority appear to be in conflict. In the second part, students will be given an opportunity for an extended study of a particular area of professional interest, suggested by one or other of the areas studied in the first part.

Sub-site navigation

Units 2012