# Syllabus and Calendar

## Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session

## Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

## Course Description

Non-violence is more than a political and social strategy. It can be a comprehensive ethical stance. In this course, we examine both the efficacy and ethics of such a stance. We first look at the question of what a non-violent life entails. We read the primary exponents of non-violence, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King. Next, we investigate the ethical dimensions of non-violence. Can we derive a comprehensive moral theory from the principles of non-violence? Last, we look at specific ethical challenges from the perspective of non-violence. We consider 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.

## Course Requirements

Course readings.
ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES
--- | ---
Attendance and Participation | 10%
Paper 1 | 30%
Paper 2 | 40%
Daily Conflict and Resolution Journal | 20%

For more information on the activities above, see the Assignments section.

## Calendar

Course readings.
WEEK # | TOPICS | DUE DATES
--- | --- | ---
1 | Love, Non-violence, and Truth |
2 | Non-violent Communication |
3 | Non-violent Conflict Resolution |
4 | Coercion and Manipulation |
5 | Kindness and Cruelty |
6 | Forgiveness |
7 | Anger and Emotion |
8 | Non-violence and Anger | Paper 1 due
9 | Telling the Truth, Part I |
10 | Telling the Truth, Part II |
11 | Punishment and Revenge, Part I |
12 | Punishment and Revenge, Part II | Turn in selected sections of daily conflict and resolution journal
13 | Journal Sharing and Summing Up | Paper 2 due