Book Title: Debating Justice
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Book Description: Interested in teaching students to debate while also teaching them about political philosophy? This book adapts the Lincoln-Douglas format used in US high schools to college courses that introduce students to such philosophies as utilitarianism, Kantian justice, Rawlsian justice, and libertarianism. It includes a detailed discussion of argumentation as well as two sample Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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This book introduces students to a modified form of Lincoln-Douglas debate that is suitable for use in college philsophy or political science courses. Students will learn how to make good arguments and identify bad ones. They will learn how to structure the affirmative and negative cases in debate and the specific duties of each speech in the debate. There is also a section on preparing for, conducting, and defending against cross-examination. Students learn about four value systems to use in their debates: utilitarianism, libertarianism, Kantian justice, and Rawlsian justice. The text includes two full debates to illustrate how students can put these ideas into practice.
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Debating Justice Copyright © 2025 by Thomas Rozinski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Social and political philosophy
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Debating Justice Copyright © 2025 by Thomas Rozinski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.