Mounir Mounir Kchaou

 

Issues of Development, Human Rights, Democracy and Democratic Transition. Applied Ethics Problems, Philosophy of Law, Theories of International Relations, Theories of Justice.  

Taught courses

-Problems of Liberty and Equality in Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy ( Master of Philosophy at the Doha Institute)

-Civil Society in Comparative Approaches (Interdisciplinary Course at DI)

-The Theoretical and the Practical in Greek Philosophy ( Plato, Aristoteles and the Stoicism) (Master of Philosophy at DI)

-Modern State: Sovereignty and Legitimacy (Master of Philosophy at DI)

- The Definition of Law: legal positivism and its Critics (Master Philosophy of Values at the University of Tunis)

-Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to the Justice Issue (Master Philosophy of Values at the University of Tunis) 

-Paul Ricoeur and the Issues of Practical Philosophy (course delivered in French to Aggregation Students of École normale supérieure at University of Tunis)

-Contingency and Irony in Richard Rorty`s Philosophy from his Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (course delivered in Arabic to Philosophy Aggregation Students of École normale supérieure at University of Tunis)

- Virtue Ethics and Deontological Ethics (Course delivered in English to Master Business Ethics Students at University of Vechta)

- The Issue of Development: Some Philosophical and Theoretical Debates ( Course given in English in Philosophy Doctoral School Seminars at the University of Vechta) 

​-2020, "The Culture of the National Liberation Movement and the Change towards Democracy: The Case of North Africa" in Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 46, Issue 5, May 2020, p. 512-522

- 2019, (a), "Liberalism and the Theological-Political Predicament" in Albab, Issue 13 Spring, p. 46-89.

-2019,( b.) "On the Toleration Concept: the difficulty of Definition and the Changes in Reality" pub. In N. Ourimy  BouAjila (ed.) Tolerance in Arabic Culture: A Critical Study, Bayrout: Mominoon without Borders, vol.1 p. 11-45

- 2018, « Book`s Review of Justine Lacroix and Jean-Ives Pranchere, Le procès des droits de l`homme : généalogie du scepticisme contemporain » . In Tabayyun 22/ 7, Fall ,p. 143-148.

- 2017, (a.) 'Theory of Democracy between Representation, Political Participation and Public Deliberation: the Rawls / Habermas debate" in Albab, Issue 10,Winter ,p. 14-53.

-2017,( b.) " Violence, Modern State and Changing Societies" pub. In Violence and Politics in Contemporary Arabic Societies, Bayrout: ACRPS. p.  25-61

- 2017, (c.) Book`s Review of Scruton`s How to be a Conservative,  in Tabayyun, vol. 5, Issue 20, p. 135-144

-2016, (a) Book`s Review of Walzer`s The paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions, in Omran,  vol. 4 Issue 16, p. 5-22

- 2016, (b),  " Secularization of Ethics and the Emergence of Conscience: A Comparison between Arabic and Western Contexts" in Tabayyun, vol. 5 Issue 18,p. 7-20.

-2015, An Introduction for the Arabic Translation of Dworkin`s Taking Rights Seriously, Tunis: Sinatra, p. 5-32

​Email: mounir.kchaou@dohainstitute.edu.qa