FILO-3301 Seminario Filosofía de la Guerra S.XX

During the twentieth century there arises a great diversity of reflections and points of view about war. This is not surprising, given the number and seriousness of the types of armed conflicts which have their place during that period. Within this rainbow of posits, which goes from realist and decisionist postures, like those of C. Schmitt, to juridical pacifisms, like those of Kelsen, there stands out a novel reformulation of the ancient and traditional theory of the just war, in M. Walzer’s opus. Its contribution can be understood as a necessary referent to the philosophy of war of our time, not only because of its marked influence in liberal thinkers like Rawls, but also because of the different types of conflict it analyzes, and because it constitutes itself as a sort of midpoint between extreme pacifism and belicisms. This seminar has, as its general purpose, to be the departure point of a research on contemporary philosophy of war, through the reading of its main texts in a propaedeutic manner.

Credits

3

Instructor

Casta?Eda Salamanca Felipe