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课程名称：公共政策伦理 课程概述：欢迎来到《公共政策伦理》课程！本课程将帮助您了解道德、伦理和文化原则在立法者和公共官员制定和执行公共政策时所发挥的作用。课程结合了经典政治理论著作和当代公共政策制定中的伦理困境案例，将使您能够辩论正义、平等、公平、个人自由、自由企业、慈善、人权等多种伦理主题。 课程大纲： 1. **功利主义与自由主义**：本模块介绍形成伦理学第一理论基础的功利主义和自由主义。您将学习如何在战争与和平、器官移植与基础医疗、平等与歧视、堕胎与干细胞等问题中，采用伦理学的方法进行选择，评估人类行为的正面结果。 2. **公平正义**：本模块探讨了如罗尔斯和马克思等哲学家在公共政策中实现公平正义的观点。您将了解公平的概念，并讨论各种问题，例如平权行动的公平性、选区划分的公平性以及学校资金的公平性。 3. **伦理与经济政策**：通过约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨的见解，本模块将使您深入理解伦理及其在经济政策制定中的角色。您将探讨政策制定者在规划伦理经济政策中的作用，以及伦理政策如何促进增长与发展。 4. **伦理与社会保障**：本模块探讨社会保障资金的各种影响及其道德基础。您将分析政府提供社会保障对贫困群体的角色，以及政策制定者在社会保障问题上面临的困境。 5. **什么是平等？**：阿马尔蒂亚·森在1979年提出，福祉不仅是一个人拥有的财富或快乐问题，也是人们如何管理自己的生活和拥有实现重要事情的能力。本模块将学习“能力方法”，帮助您理解平等的概念和实现真正平等的途径。 6. **全球治理中的伦理**：本模块深入理解全球伦理治理，分析如何在无治理的国际舞台上进行伦理思考和行动，并探讨政策制定者对治理伦理性质的影响。 通过此课程，您将能够更全面地理解公共政策制定中的伦理问题，并为未来的决策提供深思熟虑的分析基础。
Name:Utilitarianism and Libertarianism
Description:This module introduces you to the theories that form the very first strand of ethics – consequentialism. It will help you take an ethical approach to choose between gun or butter, war or peace, organ transplant or primary health care, equality or discrimination, and abortion or stem cell. It will allow you to use positive results as a basis for evaluating human actions. You will dive deep into the consequentialists’ theories, for example, Utilitarian, and learn about the greatest possible increase of pleasure over pain and the maximum possible satisfaction of preferences of welfare economics.
Name: Justice as Fairness
Description:This module introduces you to the views of philosophers like Rawls and Marx in achieving justice and fairness in public policy. It will help you understand fairness and deal with questions such as how fair is affirmative action, are the electoral constituencies drawn to be fair, and how fair is our method of funding schools. This module also focuses on the fundamentals of justice as the central core of morality. You will discern how questions of justice and fairness inevitably arise when decisions are made regarding the distribution of benefits and burdens amongst various groups. This module refers to the Supreme Court judgment on contemporary cases, like Narmada Sagar Dams to build upon the concepts.
Name: Ethics and Economic Policy
Description:“Modern high-tech warfare is designed to remove physical contact: dropping bombs from 50,000 feet ensures that one does not 'feel' what one does. Modern economic management is similar… from one’s luxury hotel, one can callously impose policies about which one would think twice if one knew the people whose lives one was destroying.” – Joseph Stiglitz. In this module, you will gain an in-depth understanding of ethics and its role in economic policy-making. You will discover the role that policymakers play in planning and formulating ethical economic policies. You will delve into how ethical policy-making can promote both growth and development.
Name:Ethics and Social Security
Description:Is it fair to tax the young for the government to provide a generous retirement program for able-bodied seniors? Social security has come a long way from the initial moral precepts of caring for aging parents. With the government benefits supporting us from birth to death, we are slowly becoming one-issue voters with fewer concerns for the nation’s future. In this module, you will explore the various implications of social security funding, its moral groundings, and sustainability. It will help you understand the social security benefits. It will also help you examine the role of the government in providing social security benefits to the poor. You will comprehend the binds policymakers face regarding social security.
Name:Equality of What?
Description:Amartya Sen in 1979 showed the world that wellbeing is not just a question of wealth or pleasure that a person has; it is a question of how people manage to live their lives and the ability to do certain things important to them. He developed the ‘capability approach’, which focuses on the people’s actual capability and freedom to live the kind of life they value. In this module, you will learn about Sen’s capability approach. It will help you understand the concept of equality and how to achieve true equality. You will analyze how to design public policies with a focus on achieving equality. You will also examine the role that policymakers play in designing such policies to promote equality.
Name:Ethics in Global Governance
Description:In this module, you will gain an in-depth understanding of global and ethical governance. It will help you describe how to make governance more ethical. You will explore how thinking and acting ethically in anarchy can be difficult for all actors in the international arena, where there is no governance. You will also analyze how policymakers affect the ethical nature of governance.
Welcome to the course Ethics in Public Policy! This course will help you learn about the role that ethical, moral, and cultural principles play when lawmakers and public officials formulate and execute public policy. This course draws upon classical writings in political theory and contemporary cases on ethical dilemmas in public policymaking. It will enable you to debate various ethics themes such as justice, equality, fairness, individual liberty, free enterprise, charity, human rights, and
