Exam 1 - Sandel

Question 1

Sandel: What is Teleological Justice

Answer 1

Focusing on purpose and goal:
-defining purpose (ex. a good cheerleader energize crowd or flip well?)
-purpose of best tennis court is for the best tennis players to play on

Question 2

Sandel: What is Honorific Justice

Answer 2

Honoring and Recognizing good people and behavior:
Politics have most influence and should cultivate virtue among citizens, therefore politicians should be the most virtuous people

Question 3

Sandel: What are 3 Approaches to Justice?

Answer 3

Utilitarianism: maximize happiness for most amount of people

Libertarianism: freedom, respect rights, equal opportunity

Virtue: focusing on virtue as the single most important thing for a good society

Question 4

Sandel: What was Jeremy Benthem’s Perspective on Utilitarianism

Answer 4

-people seek pleasure and happiness, so morality is seeking pleasure
-the question is to define what is good? This is measured through the happiness calculus

Question 5

Sandel: What was John Stuart Mill’s Perspective on Utilitarianism

Answer 5

-there are higher and lower pleasures that can’t be bundled together (better to be sad socrates than happy fool)

-people should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as no harming others

-respecting individual liberty is the most sustained happiness