France

This course studies the theories and concepts of Judaism. It examines its principal texts and practices as the literature and customs of this religion serve as a gateway to understanding its fundamental philosophical structure.

This course uses political history, political law, and political science to understand the current political life in France within the constitutional context and institutional practices. The course questions representative democracy and what happens when the rules of electoral competition change but the presidential power stays the same, or is strengthened. The course takes three views: the path of the law or the referendum of the cumulative terms; the evaluation of the law or State of Emergency; and the ethics of politics including the laws of October 11, 2013 and September 15, 2017. The course provides an opportunity to understand the function of political actors by role-playing in the form of a parliamentary debate. Through this exercise, it measures the importance of texts by an article of the three Constitutional ideals: European, a Sixth Republic, and a Federal State.

This course explores the governance initiatives that are emerging in response to the phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change which, as a truly global problem, implicates and affects all parts of the world and makes these initiatives necessarily more speculative, less established, and more rapidly evolving than most other governance initiatives. The topics and readings for the course foreground the theme of governance and explore the various institutions and techniques that have evolved, or might evolve, to address the phenomenon of climate change.

This course discovers the main aspects of contemporary ethical philosophy. In part, it achieves this through lectures, with a systematic presentation of the broad options and methods of contemporary ethics. The course also employs an interactive examination of a series of broad questions around applied ethics, in areas as diverse as climate and environmental ethics, sexual ethics, war ethics, business ethics, and bioethics.

This course examines the main historical events of the region from the beginning of the 19th century. It covers the various controversies surrounding the population of the sub-continent and analyzes the formation of large pre-Columbian civilizations. This part of the course explores the population that preceded the Tawantinsuyu in the Andres and the Empire of the Triple Alliance in Mexico, often dismissed in the analysis. It examines the consequences of the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese by considering the large events of the "Conquest" and colonization.

This course investigates how benevolent conduct is enacted in the world, despite the typical focus on power, war, economic domination, and indifference towards distant foreigners in the study of international relations. This concept is approached from political theory, international relations, as well as artistic endeavors, to explore the tension between interest and sympathy concerning both human nature and the foundations of politics, the traces of which can be found consistently in philosophical debates between the 17th century and today. This course provides a deeper understanding of international relations by exploring an underinvested historical, empirical, and philosophical dimension. It considers benevolence as sensitivity, conduct, and project in the global space to cultivate a clear and optimistic view of the scope of benevolence in the contemporary world.