Ateneo - UPO

Justice across Ages. A critical analysis of the idea of generational sovereignty will show how it is possible to grant full equality between different generations.

J. Bidadanure, Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
González-Ricoy, I., & Gosseries, A. (a cura di). Institutions for future generations. Oxford University Press, 2016

1- Knowledge
of the main arguments on generational justice, sovereignty and polarization and strategies to address them. 2- Ability to critically analyze reading materials. 3- Ability to develop an original paper on the studied topics.

Knowledge and capabilities acquired in the undergraduate studies: 1. Basic Knowledge of politics. 2. Capability of clear and correct exposition of the readings and of one’s own position, both in the discussion and in the papers.

Graduate teaching will take place in seminars. The students will arrive to each session, having completed the reading assignment. At the beginning of the course, all reading assignments will be published on DIR. Each session will be open by a student's brief introduction, followed by the general discussion. At the end of each session the teacher will suggest a list of questions for the student to reflect and to stimulate the next session’s debate. A written outline will be required as a practice for the final paper and an oral presentation will be given at the end of the course.

Those who will not be able to attend classes for motivated reasons, will have an oral examination where the whole list of readings will be discussed with the teacher.

Written paper 4000 words (70%) and active participation (30%).
At the end of the course the student should have reached as a minimum threshold: 1. The knowledge of the different models of citizenship and the capability to connect them with the corresponding model of integration. 2. The capability to classify the case-studies undert the different models 3. Ability of a clear and correct exposition
The student reaches an advanced competence if: she gets a critical and comparative understanding of the different models 2. She is able to analyze the case studies with an autonomous and critical view. 3. She shows a perfect master of language and technical terms.

1- Justice across ages, a brief introduction; 2- Generational Polarization and Sovereignty; 3- Social Justice between generations; 4- Ageism; 5- Case studies and political innovations

1.Acquisition of knowledge on the topic of the course. 2.Development of a critical view on justice across ages and autonomous development of justified positions, which will be apparent in the discussion in class, in the presentation and in the papers. 3. Refinement of argumentative capabilities to be shown in the elaboration of autonomous positions both in the papers and especially in facing case study. 4. Cased studies provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in the course with autonomy of judgment.