Notes Flashcards
Libertarians are those who are wholeheartedly opposed to any social or legal constraints on individual economic freedoms
LIB2
Libertarians are those who are wholeheartedly opposed to any social or legal constraints on freedom
LIB
- I can get all the benefits of accepting the authority if government w/out any of the costs
- If (1), then the social contract theory is false
- So, the social contract theory is false
The “What if I can get away with it” argument
- People in a democratic socialist society are more free than people in a capitalist society
- If (1), then democratic socialism is more than just capitalism
- So, democratic socialism is more just than capitalism
The argument from freedom
- There was never any argument or social contract
- If (1), then the social contract theory is false
- So, the social contract theory is false
The “that never happened argument”
- It is morally permissible to deceive when playing poker
- If (1), then is normally permissible to deceive when doing business
- So, it is usually permissible to deceive when doing business
The poker argument
- Bluffing in a negotiation is a form of self defense
- If (1), then bluffing in negotiation is morally permissible
- So, bluffing in a negotiation is morally permissible
The argument from self defense
It is worse to lie to someone than it is to merely deceive that person
Lying is worse than deception
- how upheld things become held
- the processes by which how things become to be held
- the extent of what comes to be held
The principle of justice in acquisition
- how you are acquire a holding from someone else
- how you transfer your holdings to come one else
- how you take a holding and make it unheld
The principle of justice in transfer
- D2 is just (motivated by intuition, how can people buying basketball tickets change the justness)
- If D2 is just, then current time slice theory and pattern theories are false
- So, current time slice theories and pattern theories are false
The LeBron argument
- private ownership of the means of production
- not subject to democratic determination by citizens
- decided by the individuals that own the means of production
Capitalism
Pure form of capitalism is what?
Competition
What is the impure form of capitalism?
Government interference
- public ownership of domestic production
- subject to democratic determination by the citizens
- decide on everything by voting
- divided into one class
Socialism
Pure form of socialism is what?
Democratic
Impure form of socialism
Bureaucratic
Where people vote
Democratic
Where a few people rule and use socialism as a mask to get richer
Bureaucratic
- Bluffing is endorsed by a rational person who is a negotiator
- If (1), then being a negotiator is a role in which bluffing is morally permissible
- So, being a negotiator is role in which bluffing is morally permissible
The argument from endorsement
No government -no laws -no courts -no police Everyone is free to do as they please -you are the only authority over yourself
The state of nature
A lie is a false statement and made with the intention to deceive
L1
A lie is a false statement which the speaker does not believe to be true and is made in a context in which the speaker warrants the truth of what he or she says
L2
A person (P1), lies to another person (P2), just in case
- P1 makes a false statement
- P1 does not believe it to be true
- In doing so warrants the truth of the statement to P2
L3
