quotes Flashcards
“Act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.“
- Kant
- deontology
“The town’s residents “all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children. . . depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery.”
LeGuin, “Omelas”
-utilitarian
“Religion is the opium of the people.”
-Karl Marx
“…a veil of ignorance”
- John Rawls
- egalitarian
“Only those social and economic inequalities are permitted that work to the benefit of the least advantaged members of society.”
- John Rawls
- egalitarian, Difference Principle
“Non posse non peccare”
- Augustine
- Not Able Not to Sin
“To maximize happiness, the overall balance of pleasure over pain”
–Jeremy Bentham, et al
-Utilitarianism
“The ends justify the means”
- Jeremy Bentham
- Consequentialism
“Man is a political animal.”
–Aristotle
-Polis-man is made to live in a community 400B.C.
“The worker is related to the product of his labor as to an alien object. The object he produces does not belong to him, dominates him, and only serves in the long run to increase his poverty.”
–Marx
“Human beings are ‘condemned to freedom.’”
- Jean Paul Sartre
- extensialism:we don’t just exist we make are decisions to exist
“Men are like plants; the goodness and flavour of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.”
–Crèvecoeur
-“What is an American?” We aren’t French because they were trappers and then left, we don’t speak Spanish because…we were British because the British brought their families.
“In the ruthless war of promiscuity women play for higher stakes and are more likely to lose.”
–C. S. Lewis
-The Right to Happiness
“Love God and do what you will.”
–Augustine
“And what does the Lord require of you?To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
- Micah 6:8
- conforms to the idea of Justice
“Tacit consent”
- John Locke
- if you live in a society then you agree to live by the laws of the society
“The purpose of politics (government) is to cultivate good character and form good citizens.”
- Aristotle
- virtue, honor, telos
- we are political animals b/c of language
“How does a society distribute the things we prize; how does it give each person his or her due?”
–Sandel
“There are, in a civilized society, some things that money can’t buy.”
–New Jersey Supreme Court
- baby M case
- selling kidneys
- What can you buy and sell?
- utilitarian
“Vertical identity; horizontal identity…”
–Solomon, Far from the Tree
-vertical=good/same biological traits as parent
Horizontal=not good/not same traits, ex. gay
“They said to him, Then say Shibboleth; and he said, Sibboleth, for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites.”
–Judges 12:6
“God is Dead, and he will remain dead, because we have killed him.”
–Nietzsche
“Hell is other people.”
–Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit
“Tomorrow at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them.”
–Tris, Divergent
“They had hoped to destroy any trace of the extraordinary in me, and in time I came to share that hope. But the extraordinary, it seems, was simply out of their reach.”
–Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”
