Courses
GCVM1017 Freedom in Modern Society (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course will discuss the moral foundation of freedom and the ethical issues related to the ideas of freedom in the modern free society. First, the history of liberty and tolerance will be sketched. Then different concepts of freedom, e.g. negative and positive freedom, will be explained through discussions of the prominent philosophers like John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, and Charles Taylor. Different theories of freedom from both secular and religious perspectives (such as secular liberalism, conservatism, Confucianism and Christianity) will also be expounded and compared.
http://ge.hkbu.edu.hk/course/GCVM-1017/