Comparative HE Class

Question 1

Egalitarian

Answer 1

Believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal deserve equal rights & opportunities

Question 2

Prioritarianism

Answer 2

A view within ethics and political philosophy that holds that the goodness of an outcome is a function of overall well-being across all individuals with extra weight given to worse-off individuals.

Question 3

Utilitarian

Answer 3

family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals

Question 4

Sufficientarianism

Answer 4

Sufficientarianism is a theory of distributive justice. Rather than being concerned with inequalities as such or with making the situation of the least well off as good as possible, sufficientarian justice aims at making sure that each of us has enough.

Question 5

Construe

Answer 5

Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way

Question 6

Plethora

Answer 6

Excess

I.e. plethora of ideals

Question 7

Substantive

Answer 7

1. Having a firm basis in reality so important, meaningful or considerable.
2. Having a separate or independent existence
3. (of law) defining rights and duties, as opposed to giving the procedural rules to which those rights and duties are enforced

Question 8

Otiose

Answer 8

Serving no particular purpose or result

Indolent or idle

Question 9

Indolent

Answer 9

Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion

Question 10

Apartheid

Answer 10

(In South Africa) a system or policy of discrimination/ segregation on grounds of race

Question 11

Aggrieved

Answer 11

Resentful; wronged ( feeding resentful at having been treated unfairly)

Question 12

Blatant

Answer 12

(Bad behaviour) done openly without shame

Flagrant一(of an action considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive

Question 13

Conspicuous

Answer 13

Obviously, clearly visible

Question 14

Amelioration

Answer 14

Improvement ; act of making something better