27. What About Community? Flashcards
What are the two ideas of deontological liberalism that Sandel refutes?
Justice primacy: That justice is the primary virtue and that no other good can justify a tradeoff against justice,
Prior-self: and that the self is prior to the ends, meaning that it is completely free to choose its ends, values, goals, and theory of the good
What is Sandel’s conclusion from Rawls’ notion that we do not deserve what is morally arbitrary?
That nobody deserves anything
How does Sandel refute prior-self?
A self prior to all other ends is impossible because it would have no ends by which to choose other ends. Some aspects of the self must be intrinsic and some must be constituted by the community
What does Sandel say about neutralism?
Government cannot be neutral because some goods are preconditions for those which precede and have priority over the Right
What is communitarianism?
Rejection of priority of the Right and neutrality of government
According to MacIntyre, how do individuals gain intelligibility in their lives?
Through narrative, seeing their lives as stories aimed at some goal
Where do MacIntyre’s narrative elements come from?
From thematic elements that come from cultural traditions
What is MacIntyre’s basis for moral reasoning
It must occur in the context of an inquiry-bearing tradition in which members debate terms of a shared telos drawn from shared canonical texts.
What is MacIntyre’s view of language?
post-Enlightenment languages lack the resources for resolving ethical questions because they are decontextualized from ethical traditions
What is Brian Berry’s basis for liberalism
Critical skepticism
How does Galston see liberalism as a good?
Liberty is one good among many to which liberalism is devoted. Because there are plural goods, they must be balanced.
