Advancing Studies · Boston College
The pursuit of justice is a dominant concern of our age. But it appears that there are nearly as many understandings of justice as there are persons and communities to claim them. The goal of this course is to consider the principal understandings of justice and peace that have developed in the Western philosophical and theological traditions and assess how these alternative understandings affect personal decisions and social policy choices. We will pay attention to how these theories relate to concrete, practical, political and social issues. Special attention will be paid to the contributio
