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Religion, Ethics, and War
PAR 355
Offered during the May Mini-mester, May 11-26
Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King are religious heroes to many people because they developed the practice of non-violence. They "turned the other cheek" and refused to respond to evil with hatred. But in an age of terrorism, is non-violence still an effective practice? Is it really the moral way to behave, or is violence sometimes religiously or morally required? Perhaps there are times when people are religiously or morally required to wage a "just war" and to fight evil with violence. Are their moral limits to what one should do in wartime, or in wartime is "all fair"? This course in comparative religious ethics is designed to examine these questions.
Offered during the May Mini-mester, May 11-26
Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King are religious heroes to many people because they developed the practice of non-violence. They "turned the other cheek" and refused to respond to evil with hatred. But in an age of terrorism, is non-violence still an effective practice? Is it really the moral way to behave, or is violence sometimes religiously or morally required? Perhaps there are times when people are religiously or morally required to wage a "just war" and to fight evil with violence. Are their moral limits to what one should do in wartime, or in wartime is "all fair"? This course in comparative religious ethics is designed to examine these questions.