Approaching Justice: course description
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Willem Witteveen, Odile Heynders, Alkeline van Lenning, Sanne Taekema - Tilburg University
The course will be the joint responsibility of all four teachers. They will each spend a three week period in Venice and also be present for the introductory sessions and the examinations. The courses are coordinated by Prof. Witteveen. The teachers take full responsibility for the examinations.
The courses will consist of four parts that take up three weeks each. The first and second parts of each course are taught by Prof. Witteveen and Dr. Taekema. After the second part of the courses, there will be an examination, supervised by them. The third part is taught by Dr. Heynders and the fourth part by Dr. Van Lenning. After the fourth part of the course there will be a final presentation, supervised by these teachers.
There are many approaches to justice and the debates about what constitutes justice and what counts as injustice are never ending. This course will introduce students to some of the various approaches found in the humanities and the social sciences, but it will also stimulate their active and personal search for these concepts of (in)justice. Starting point is Plato’s seminal dialogue on justice in the Republic. Then literary, philosophical and legal sources will be studied and attention will be paid to empirical approaches to justice and injustice. Part I and Part II will be taught by Witteveen and Taekema, Part III by Heynders and Part IV by Van Lenning.
The courses will consist of four parts that take up three weeks each. The first and second parts of each course are taught by Prof. Witteveen and Dr. Taekema. After the second part of the courses, there will be an examination, supervised by them. The third part is taught by Dr. Heynders and the fourth part by Dr. Van Lenning. After the fourth part of the course there will be a final presentation, supervised by these teachers. There are many approaches to justice and the debates about what constitutes justice and what counts as injustice are never ending. This course will introduce students to some of the various approaches found in the humanities and the social sciences, but it will also stimulate their active and personal search for these concepts of (in)justice. Starting point is Plato’s seminal dialogue on justice in the Republic. Then literary, philosophical and legal sources will be studied and attention will be paid to empirical approaches to justice and injustice. Part I and Part II will be taught by Witteveen and Taekema, Part III by Heynders and Part IV by Van Lenning. 
