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Non-violence as a Way of Life

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesES.114
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2018English
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This course addresses the philosophical question of what a non-violent life entails. It investigates its ethical dimensions and challenges, and considers whether we can derive a comprehensive moral theory from the principle of non-violence. In addition, it 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.

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