Political philosophy of capitalism

Question 1

What type of freedom does Berlin suggest?

Answer 1

2 concepts

positive and negative liberty

Question 2

What is positive liberty

Answer 2

Positive liberty is the possibility of acting — or the fact of acting — in such a way as to take control of one’s life and realize one’s fundamental purposes.

Question 3

What is negative liberty

Answer 3

Negative liberty is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. One has negative liberty to the extent that actions are available to one in this negative sense.

Question 4

What does Philippe Van Parijs use real freedom to argue for as a requirement for real freedom ?

Answer 4

UBI (Universal Basic Income)

all citizens should get guaranteed income

Question 5

Why is the existence of markets central to the functioning of capitalism?

Answer 5

because they bring together those seeking to finance economic activities and those with money to invest

Question 6

What is the republican concept of freedom?

Answer 6

non dominance or independence from an arbitrary power

defines freedom as a sort of independence—as the condition of not being subject to the arbitrary power of a master

Question 7

How does Dr Piers,Crispin star of breakfast television ,like his coffee?

Answer 7

Coffee love,milk,no sugar

Question 8

Where is Piers Crispin always?

Answer 8

he’s always here

Question 9

What is Staney and Ella Dawkin’s dog actually called?

Answer 9

Malcom

Question 10

What did John Rawls argue about ownership

Answer 10

hn Rawls argued that questions about the system of ownership are secondary or derivative questions, to be dealt with pragmatically rather than as issues in political philosophy
Philosophers, Rawls said, are better off discussing the abstract principles of justice that should constrain the establishment of any social institutions, than trying to settle a priori questions of social and economic strategy.