Justice

Question 1

What are the three kinds of justice

Answer 1

Retributive, Compensatory, and Distributive

Question 2

Focuses on blaming and punishing those who have done wrong

Answer 2

Retributive

Question 3

Focuses on restoring to a person what. she lost when she was wronged

Answer 3

Compensatory

Question 4

Focuses on how society’s benefits and burdens should be allocated

Answer 4

Distributive

Question 5

Allocate Benefits and burdens to people in equal portions (All people are equal in a fundamental respect)

Answer 5

Egalitarianism

Question 6

What are the criticism of Egalitarianism

Answer 6

Ignores need, ability, and effort

Question 7

What are the counterarguments of Egalitarianism

Answer 7

Political Equality and Economic Equality

Question 8

Distribute benefits in proportion to what each individual contributes

Answer 8

Capitalism

Question 9

The more you contribute, the more you get

Answer 9

Capitalism

Question 10

Value of contribution measured by effort, production, and market value

Answer 10

Capitalism

Question 11

What are the criticism of Capitalism

Answer 11

Fails to consider need

Question 12

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs

Answer 12

Socialism

Question 13

Distribute work based on ability

Answer 13

Socialism

Question 14

Distribute goods based on needs

Answer 14

Socialism

Question 15

What are the criticism of Socialism

Answer 15

Who decides what my abilities are, and what if I don’t like what they decide? What is my incentive?

Question 16

Distribution of benefits and burdens is just if it results from individuals freely choosing to exchange with each other the goods each person already owns

Answer 16

Libertarianism

Question 17

People should be allowed to keep everything they make and everything they are freely given

Answer 17

Libertarianism

Question 18

Wrong to take one person’s property and distribute it to someone else

Answer 18

Libertarianism

Question 19

What are the criticism of Libertarianism

Answer 19

Places freedom from coercion above other important freedoms

Question 20

What is Rawls was to determine the adequacy of moral principles in a fair way?

Answer 20

Original Position and Veil of Ignorance

Question 21

What is Original Position

Answer 21

An imaginary meeting of rational self-interested persons who must choose the principles of justice by which their society will be governed

Question 22

What is Veil of Ignorance

Answer 22

The requirement that a person in the original position must not know particulars about themselves which might bias their choices

Question 23

What are the parts of Rawls justice

Answer 23

Equal Liberty, Equal opportunity, and Difference Principle

Question 24

What is Equal Liberty

Answer 24

Each citizen’s liberties are protected from invasion by others and are equal to others

Question 25

What is Equal Opportunity

Answer 25

Everyone should be given an equal opportunity to qualify for privileged positions

Question 26

What is difference principle

Answer 26

We acknowledge inequalities, but they are just ONLY to the extent they work to the advantage of the least well-off members of society