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Description of this course
This is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the philosophy of non-violence and the most prominent thinkers and pioneers who built the foundations of this philosophy in the ancient and contemporary history. This course prepares students to determine the meanings of violence, its core vocabulary and supporting infrastructure, and identify the meanings of non-violence, its core vocabulary, options and principles as well as the dictionary and alternatives that originated from it and facing the heritage of violence and related dictionary. It includes an in-depth study of the fundamental concepts that shaped the intellectual and philosophical debate about violence and non-violence, conflict, struggle, resistance, force, power, good and evil, the ego and the other, the means and the end, the truth, murder and forgiveness, courage and cowardice, etc. This course prepares students to acquire the skills of analysis of philosophical reference texts that formed the legacy of non-violence.
Students will prepare five to seven articles about a non-violent pioneer figure or experience (Gandhi, King, Chavez, Abdelghaffar Khan, Del Vasto, De Bollardière, Dolci, Slaybi: First Intifada in Palestine…).